Breya, Etherium Shaper card art — Art by Clint Cearley · © Wizards of the Coast

Invent Superiority

Bracket 2

C16 — Commander 2016 · 2016-11-11

Commander: Breya, Etherium Shaper · Color identity: BRUW

Bracket

Power Level

4.9/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

Alternate win condition detected: Hellkite Tyrant — present but lightly supported
High optimization — score 30/75 (9 card-advantage sources, 3 tutors, 10 interaction spells) — raises this deck above its hard floor
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 2016 decks we analyzed, this is the strongest — power 4.9 versus a set average of 4.3. That is 0.3 above the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Commander 2016 decks

Open Hostility — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Entropic Uprising — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Stalwart Unity — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Breed Lethality — Bracket 2, power 3.8

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Elven Council — Bracket 2, power 4.9
Eternal Might — Bracket 2, power 4.9
Food and Fellowship — Bracket 2, power 4.9
From Cute to Brute — Bracket 2, power 4.9
Jeskai Striker — Bracket 2, power 4.9

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Breya, Etherium Shaper'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
Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
Swords to Plowshares Interaction $0.88
Path to Exile Interaction $0.69
Generous Gift Interaction $0.94
Counterspell Interaction $4.28

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $12.89

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
1 Myr Retriever
1 Chief Engineer
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Vedalken Engineer
1 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
1 Baleful Strix
1 Akiri, Line-Slinger
1 Armory Automaton
1 Shimmer Myr
1 Master of Etherium
1 Trinket Mage
1 Magus of the Will
1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
1 Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
1 Sydri, Galvanic Genius
1 Etched Oracle
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sanctum Gargoyle
1 Faerie Artisans
1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
1 Ethersworn Adjudicator
1 Sphinx Summoner
1 Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
1 Hellkite Tyrant
1 Sharuum the Hegemon
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Hellkite Igniter
1 Filigree Angel
1 Whipflare
1 Parting Thoughts
1 Trash for Treasure
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Migratory Route
1 Open the Vaults
1 Phyrexian Rebirth
1 Grave Upheaval
1 Coastal Breach
1 Grip of Phyresis
1 Ancient Excavation
1 Read the Runes
1 Trial // Error
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Dispeller's Capsule
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Cranial Plating
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Ichor Wellspring
1 Mycosynth Wellspring
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Thopter Foundry
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Bonehoard
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Trading Post
1 Blinkmoth Urn
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Curse of Vengeance
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Ash Barrens
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Boros Garrison
1 Buried Ruin
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Mystic Monastery
1 Nomad Outpost
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Rupture Spire
1 Temple of the False God
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Transguild Promenade
2 Plains
2 Plains
1 Plains
2 Island
2 Island
1 Island
2 Swamp
1 Swamp
1 Swamp
2 Mountain
1 Mountain
1 Mountain

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/InventSuperiority_C16.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.