Lathril, Blade of the Elves card art — Art by Caroline Gariba · © Wizards of the Coast

Elven Empire

Bracket 2

KHC — Kaldheim Commander · 2021-02-05

Commander: Lathril, Blade of the Elves · Color identity: BG

Bracket

Power Level

4.2/10

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 (9 card draw, 9 interaction, 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 2 Kaldheim Commander decks we analyzed, this is the strongest — power 4.2 versus a set average of 4.1. That is 0.4 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Kaldheim Commander decks

Phantom Premonition — Bracket 2, power 4.0

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Arcane Wizardry — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Call for Backup — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Call the Spirits — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Death Toll — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Desert Bloom — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Lathril, Blade of the Elves'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.

Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
Cultivate Ramp $0.41
Kodama's Reach Ramp $1.77
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.23
Rampant Growth Ramp $1.28
Three Visits Ramp $5.55

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $16.85

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
1 Abomination of Llanowar
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Canopy Tactician
1 Cultivator of Blades
1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
1 Elderfang Ritualist
1 Elvish Archdruid
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Elvish Rejuvenator
1 End-Raze Forerunners
1 Eyeblight Cullers
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Golgari Findbroker
1 Harald, King of Skemfar
1 Imperious Perfect
1 Jagged-Scar Archers
1 Jaspera Sentinel
1 Llanowar Tribe
1 Lys Alana Huntmaster
1 Lys Alana Scarblade
1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
1 Masked Admirers
1 Miara, Thorn of the Glade
1 Nullmage Shepherd
1 Numa, Joraga Chieftain
1 Poison-Tip Archer
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Rhys the Exiled
1 Ruthless Winnower
1 Shaman of the Pack
1 Skemfar Shadowsage
1 Springbloom Druid
1 Sylvan Messenger
1 Timberwatch Elf
1 Twinblade Assassins
1 Voice of Many
1 Voice of the Woods
1 Wirewood Channeler
1 Wolverine Riders
1 Wood Elves
1 Elven Ambush
1 Poison the Cup
1 Putrefy
1 Tergrid's Shadow
1 Ambition's Cost
1 Bounty of Skemfar
1 Casualties of War
1 Eyeblight Massacre
1 Elvish Promenade
1 Harvest Season
1 Pact of the Serpent
1 Return Upon the Tide
1 Roots of Wisdom
1 Arcane Signet
1 Serpent's Soul-Jar
1 Sol Ring
1 Binding the Old Gods
1 Crown of Skemfar
1 Elderfang Venom
1 Pride of the Perfect
1 Prowess of the Fair
1 Moldervine Reclamation
1 Command Tower
16 Forest
1 Foul Orchard
1 Golgari Guildgate
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Jungle Hollow
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Skemfar Elderhall
13 Swamp

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