Sai, Master Thopterist card art — Art by Bryan Sola · © Wizards of the Coast

Keen Engineering

Bracket 2

FDC — Foundations Commander · 2026-10-02

Commander: Sai, Master Thopterist · Color identity: U

Bracket

Power Level

3.9/10

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 (19 card draw, 10 interaction, 1 fast-mana)
Engine accuracy reference: 100% bracket-in-range across 36 validation decks (engine beats Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku on bracket-exact).

How it compares

Against the 5 Foundations Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 3.9 versus a set average of 4.3. That is 0.8 below the 64-precon library average of 4.7. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Foundations Commander decks

Wretched Ranks — Bracket 2, power 4.5
Calling All Angels — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Reign of Dragons — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Tramplesaurus Rex — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Prismari Performance — Bracket 2, power 3.9
Sultai Arisen — Bracket 2, power 3.9
Quick Draw — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Mutant Menace — Bracket 2, power 4.1
Death Toll — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Sai, Master Thopterist'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
Swan Song Interaction $10.40
Mystic Remora Card advantage $15.41
Lightning Greaves Protection $4.25
Command Tower Lands $0.50
Reliquary Tower Lands $4.49

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $40.66

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Sai, Master Thopterist
1 All Is Dust
1 Broodstar
1 Kappa Cannoneer
1 Master of Etherium
1 Master Transmuter
1 Misleading Signpost
1 Pull from Tomorrow
1 Research Thief
1 Shimmer Dragon
1 Thopter Fabricator
1 Thopter Spy Network
1 Thought Monitor
1 Vedalken Archmage
1 Adaptive Omnitool
1 Cultivator's Caravan
1 Darksteel Juggernaut
1 Duplicant
1 Forsaken Monument
1 Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
1 Mazemind Tome
1 Mind's Eye
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Nettlecyst
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Scrawling Crawler
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Steel Overseer
1 War Room
1 Aetherize
1 Counterspell
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Fall from Favor
1 Launch Mishap
1 Memory Guardian
1 Negate
1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
1 Propaganda
1 Tamiyo's Logbook
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Thoughtcast
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Arcane Signet
1 Chief of the Foundry
1 Foundry Inspector
1 Hedron Archive
1 Ichor Wellspring
1 Meteor Golem
1 Mind Stone
1 Myr Retriever
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Palladium Myr
1 Shimmer Myr
1 Silver Myr
1 Sol Ring
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 Spire Golem
1 Thought Vessel
1 Buried Ruin
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Foundry of the Consuls
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Remote Isle
17 Island
17 Island

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/KeenEngineering_FDC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-02.