Commander deck builds at three brackets
Every commander this site has written a full build for, 23 so far. Each one is a 100-card core list plus two swap ladders: one that takes it down to a budget, and one that takes it up to bracket 4.
Builds are grouped by the set their commander comes from, newest release first. The line under each name gives the core list's bracket floor and whether the page was written before the set came out, which matters for how far to trust its prices.
Darkhold Destiny Commander (MDC)
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Gargantos, the Endbringer
No bracket floor · Written before release His counters double on your upkeep and the damage he deals reaches everybody, so every slot in this list is spent on landing one hit rather than on fighting through three boards.
Marvel: Darkhold Destiny (MDD)
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Magik, Illyana Rasputin // Darkchild, Demon Uncaged
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release Magik becomes Darkchild at the end of any turn in which you sacrificed two permanents, and cracking a Treasure or a fetchland counts. That makes the flip a question about the mana base, so this build answers it with lands and Treasure and then makes every one of those sacrifices cost the table life.
Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC)
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Ashaya's Enduring Bond
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release Thirty legendary sorceries have been printed and exactly one of them says it can be your commander. The line I would take with it is to stop reading commander tax as a penalty, because on this card it is the only dial that makes the spell bigger.
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Blor the Impervious
No bracket floor · Written before release Five mana buys a 3/3 with trample, hexproof and indestructible, and that is the whole card. Most voltron commanders spend a third of the deck insuring the creature, so the interesting question here is what the freed slots buy, and which answers are still live.
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Chief Magistrate of Mercadia
No bracket floor · Written before release Chief Magistrate of Mercadia copies every creature token you already control, once per upkeep, for as long as the crown stays on your head. So the ninety-nine behind it are not really a token deck. They are a deck about surviving one turn cycle at a time.
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Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle copies the first creature you cast each turn and hands an identical copy to an opponent you choose. These ninety-nine cards exist to make that an uneven trade rather than a fair one.
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Grizzlegom, Hurloon Hero
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release Rulebreaker hands you every land in Magic. This build gives most of them back, because a red green land carrying three printed types is worth more to Grizzlegom than an off color land carrying one.
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Homer, the Hermit
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release Homer reads like a crab tribal card and builds like a land deck. The crabs set the number, and the lands are what multiply it.
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Olag and Miau, New Friends
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release The counters on the first two lines are not how this deck wins. The third line is, it counts tapped bodies rather than power, and a Vehicle taps a board faster and more safely than an attack does.
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The Madcap Jester
Bracket 3 floor · Written before release The Madcap Jester does not steal a card. It opens a window over three libraries that stays open past your next untap step, and these ninety-nine cards exist to leave you with mana inside it.
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Tsagan, Raider Warlord
No bracket floor · Written before release Tsagan counts how many of your creatures have first strike, then gives that number to every creature you control as raw power. Almost every card behind him is chosen to make the count bigger than one, and the best one for that job costs fifty cents.
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Zagorka, Mother of Sanctum
No bracket floor · Written before release Zagorka hands a free land to everybody at the table every single turn, including the three people trying to kill you. Take the trigger anyway. You are the only player collecting a landfall trigger for it.
Reality Fracture (FRA)
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Aerid Konstrari
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 5 October 2026 Aerid Konstrari counts artifacts rather than creatures, which turns a Signet into a threat and makes the boring half of a Gruul deck the half that ends the game.
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Denzilore Fatehold
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Denzilore Fatehold pays you for saying a word, not for playing a card. The line I'd take is ninety-nine slots arranged to say that word as many separate times as a turn allows.
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Hapatra, the Desert Fang
No bracket floor · Revisited after release, 5 October 2026 Hapatra reads your graveyard for a number and hands it to every opponent at once, so the deckbuilding question is not what she kills. It is how big that number is and what the card holding it did for you on the way down.
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Ingris Stingerquill
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 5 October 2026 Every creature you attack with pings all three opponents for one, whatever its power. So this build spends its ninety-nine slots on bodies, and on the handful of effects that turn that 1 into a 4.
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Kwia Vigorbloom
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Kwia makes one Lotus a turn however much life you gain, so the build that gets the most out of her is not the one that gains the most life. It is the one that gains a little on all four turns of the cycle.
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Uldaros Theorix
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Uldaros reads like a reward for burying something enormous. The six is a shared budget rather than a size limit, so the build that gets the most out of him is stocked with the cheapest cards in the format, and the best of them costs one mana and puts an eight-drop onto the battlefield.
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Vraska, Soul of Stone
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Vraska turns every noncreature spell into a Treasure that is also a creature, and hands it vigilance. The creature half is what makes the token interesting, and it is also what taxes it, so most of these ninety-nine cards are here to pay that tax.
Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)
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Jace, Multiverse Architect
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 5 October 2026 The minus three is a Polymorph, and Polymorph decks get better the fewer creatures they run. This one runs three.
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Nissa, Leyline Tamer
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Every other card in Magic with Nissa in its name has green somewhere in its colour identity. This one costs
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Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Every other monarch commander pays to keep the crown. This one charges rent when it is taken, so the build spends those slots on attacking instead.
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The Ur-Sphinx
Bracket 3 floor · Revisited after release, 6 October 2026 Nine mana buys a 10/10 that mills the whole table and casts what it finds, and the half of this card you will lean on costs nothing at all.
What a build page gives you
Each page starts from one question, what this commander is asking the other ninety-nine cards to do, and argues every section from the list's own numbers: its land count, its curve, its colour sources and its bracket floor. Those are computed from the decklist by the same code behind the bracket checker and the mana base calculator, not typed in, so the figure in a sentence and the figure in the table beside it agree.
The two ladders are tables of cuts and adds. The budget ladder swaps the expensive cards for cheaper ones, and the bracket 4 ladder brings in the Game Changers and faster pieces the core list leaves out. Every rung is a complete 100-card deck with its own total, its own bracket floor and the date its prices were taken.
Every card is priced at its cheapest paper printing, because a build is a shopping list for a deck you don't own yet. Gold-bordered World Championship cards and oversized cards are left out of that search, since neither is legal to play. Any list loads into the deck builder with one button, or copies out as plain text with another.
Written before release, then checked after
Most of these builds are written while a set is still being previewed, before anyone has played the commander and while there is little data on it anywhere else. That timing has three costs, and each page states them where they apply: a card from the new set reads as not legal until release day, preorder prices run high and usually fall after release, and a bracket floor computed before release can move, because the Game Changers list is revised at bracket updates rather than with each set.
So every build written before release gets a second pass after it. Prices are taken again from the market, cards revealed after the page went up are considered, the bracket floor is checked against the current Game Changers list, and the FAQ is rewritten for the questions people ask once they are playing the deck. A row above that says “Revisited after release” has had that pass. A build written after its set came out doesn't need one.
FAQ
Which commanders get a full build here?
Mostly new legends, written while their set is still being previewed and there is little else published about them. A commander that is already out gets a build when there is a case to make for it that the usual lists miss, and the bracket ladder is always part of that case.
Why does a build cost less than adding up each card's usual listing?
Because each card is priced at its cheapest paper printing rather than at whichever printing a search for its name shows first, which is often a premium or a promo. For a deck you are buying into, the cheapest copy you can legally play is the number that matters. Hovering a card name on a build page shows that same printing, so the card and its price always describe one physical card.
Is the bracket shown for a build final?
It is a floor, computed from what the list contains, mainly its Game Changers and any mass land denial or extra turns. Your pod can always judge a deck as stronger than its floor. On a build written before its set released, the floor is also provisional, because Wizards revises the Game Changers list at bracket updates rather than with each set.
Can I take a build into Moxfield or my own account?
Yes. Every build page has a button that loads the list into this site's deck builder, ready to edit and save to a free account, and one that copies it as plain text that Moxfield, Archidekt and Arena all import.