Anhelo, the Painter card art — Art by Aurore Folny · © Wizards of the Coast

Maestros Massacre

Bracket 2

NCC — New Capenna Commander · 2022-04-29

Commander: Anhelo, the Painter · Color identity: BRU

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 (12 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 New Capenna Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — 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 New Capenna Commander decks

Bedecked Brokers — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Cabaretti Cacophony — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Obscura Operation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Riveteers Rampage — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Adaptive Enchantment — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Built From Scratch — 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

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Anhelo, the Painter'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.

Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
Sign in Blood Card advantage $3.14

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $24.90

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Anhelo, the Painter
1 Parnesse, the Subtle Brush
1 Bloodsoaked Champion
1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
1 Dogged Detective
1 Goblin Electromancer
1 Kess, Dissident Mage
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Rekindling Phoenix
1 Spellbinding Soprano
1 Squee, the Immortal
1 Sinister Concierge
1 Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
1 Skyclave Shade
1 Woe Strider
1 Army of the Damned
1 Bedevil
1 Call the Skybreaker
1 Chain Reaction
1 Clone Legion
1 Damnable Pact
1 Deep Analysis
1 Drawn from Dreams
1 Dread Summons
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Flawless Forgery
1 Hex
1 Maestros Confluence
1 Make an Example
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Reign of the Pit
1 River's Rebuke
1 Sever the Bloodline
1 Talrand's Invocation
1 Xander's Pact
1 Zndrsplt's Judgment
1 A Little Chat
1 Dig Through Time
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Frantic Search
1 Maestros Charm
1 Mystic Confluence
1 Waste Management
1 Arcane Signet
1 Audacious Swap
1 Body Count
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Dimir Signet
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Izzet Signet
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 Mimic Vat
1 Smuggler's Buggy
1 Twinning Staff
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Cryptic Pursuit
1 Determined Iteration
1 Double Vision
1 Extravagant Replication
1 Rite of the Raging Storm
1 Maestros Theater
1 Ash Barrens
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Thriving Bluff
1 Thriving Isle
1 Thriving Moor
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Choked Estuary
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Foreboding Ruins
1 Shadowblood Ridge
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Temple of Epiphany
4 Island
3 Island
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
3 Mountain
2 Mountain

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