Daretti, Scrap Savant card art — Art by Dan Murayama Scott · © Wizards of the Coast

Built From Scratch

Bracket 2

C14 — Commander 2014 · 2014-11-07

Commander: Daretti, Scrap Savant · Color identity: R

Bracket

Power Level

4.0/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

No hard floors (no Game Changers, no two-card infinite combo, no mass land destruction) — verdict from optimization score 22/75 (17 interaction, 7 card draw, 1 fast-mana)
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 5 Commander 2014 decks we analyzed, this is 4th strongest — power 4.0 versus a set average of 4.4. That is 0.6 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Commander 2014 decks

Peer Through Time — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Sworn To Darkness — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Guided By Nature — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Forged In Stone — Bracket 2, power 3.9

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Adaptive Enchantment — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Coven Counters — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Exquisite Invention — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Legends' Legacy — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Maestros Massacre — Bracket 2, power 4.0

Upgrade this precon

4 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Daretti, Scrap Savant's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Arcane Signet Ramp $0.49
Lightning Greaves Protection $4.10
Command Tower Lands $0.25
Myriad Landscape Lands $0.34

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
1 Goblin Welder
1 Epochrasite
1 Myr Retriever
1 Myr Sire
1 Bottle Gnomes
1 Cathodion
1 Junk Diver
1 Palladium Myr
1 Pilgrim's Eye
1 Tuktuk the Explorer
1 Dualcaster Mage
1 Feldon of the Third Path
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Beetleback Chief
1 Ingot Chewer
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Spitebellows
1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
1 Warmonger Hellkite
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Pentavus
1 Tyrant's Familiar
1 Bosh, Iron Golem
1 Bogardan Hellkite
1 Faithless Looting
1 Whipflare
1 Scrap Mastery
1 Incite Rebellion
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Impact Resonance
1 Chaos Warp
1 Volcanic Offering
1 Word of Seizing
1 Magmaquake
1 Starstorm
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Panic Spellbomb
1 Sol Ring
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Fire Diamond
1 Ichor Wellspring
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Mind Stone
1 Mycosynth Wellspring
1 Ruby Medallion
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Jalum Tome
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Trading Post
1 Caged Sun
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Loreseeker's Stone
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Great Furnace
1 Bitter Feud
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Buried Ruin
1 Dormant Volcano
1 Flamekin Village
1 Forgotten Cave
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Phyrexia's Core
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Smoldering Crater
1 Temple of the False God
8 Mountain
7 Mountain
7 Mountain
7 Mountain

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/BuiltFromScratch_C14.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.