Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos card art — Art by Uriah Voth · © Wizards of the Coast

Growing Threat

Bracket 2

MOC — March of the Machine Commander · 2023-04-21

Commander: Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos · Color identity: BW

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 (13 interaction, 8 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 March of the Machine Commander decks we analyzed, this is 4th strongest — power 4.2 versus a set average of 4.3. 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 March of the Machine Commander decks

Cavalry Charge — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Tinker Time — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Divine Convocation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Call for Backup — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Arcane Wizardry — 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
Dungeons of Death — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos'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.

Path to Exile Interaction $0.69
Generous Gift Interaction $0.94
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
Sign in Blood Card advantage $3.14
Lightning Greaves Protection $4.10
Reliquary Tower Lands $4.23

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $13.40

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
1 Moira and Teshar
1 Ichor Elixir
1 Blight Titan
1 Darksteel Splicer
1 Excise the Imperfect
1 Filigree Vector
1 Path of the Schemer
1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
1 Vulpine Harvester
1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Noxious Gearhulk
1 Phyrexian Scriptures
1 Phyrexian Triniform
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
1 Ancient Stone Idol
1 Angel of the Ruins
1 Blade Splicer
1 Coveted Jewel
1 Duplicant
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fetid Heath
1 Karn's Bastion
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Nettlecyst
1 Phyrexian Delver
1 Phyrexian Rebirth
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Scrap Trawler
1 Sculpting Steel
1 Scytheclaw
1 Shineshadow Snarl
1 Spire of Industry
1 Temple of Silence
1 Utter End
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Evolving Wilds
1 First-Sphere Gargantua
1 Fractured Powerstone
1 Goldmire Bridge
1 Night's Whisper
1 Orzhov Locket
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Phyrexian Ghoul
1 Phyrexian Rager
1 Silverquill Campus
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Hedron Archive
1 Ambition's Cost
1 Arcane Signet
1 Bloodline Pretender
1 Bone Shredder
1 Burnished Hart
1 Despark
1 Go for the Throat
1 Graveshifter
1 Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor
1 Master Splicer
1 Meteor Golem
1 Mind Stone
1 Mortify
1 Shattered Angel
1 Shimmer Myr
1 Sol Ring
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tainted Field
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Victimize
1 Compleated Huntmaster
1 Phyrexian Gargantua
10 Plains
13 Swamp

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