Captain N'ghathrod card art — Art by Andrey Kuzinskiy · © Wizards of the Coast

Mind Flayarrrs

Bracket 2

CLB — Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate · 2022-06-10

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod · Color identity: BU

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, 10 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 4 Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 4.2 versus a set average of 4.8. 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 Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate decks

Exit from Exile — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Draconic Dissent — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Party Time — Bracket 2, power 4.7

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 Captain N'ghathrod'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
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

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $27.37

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Captain N'ghathrod
1 Chasm Skulker
1 Forgotten Creation
1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
1 Hullbreaker Horror
1 Mind Flayer
1 Overcharged Amalgam
1 Sludge Monster
1 Wharf Infiltrator
1 Dark Hatchling
1 Dross Harvester
1 Guiltfeeder
1 Hunted Horror
1 Nighthowler
1 Nihilith
1 Sewer Nemesis
1 Woe Strider
1 Consuming Aberration
1 Nemesis of Reason
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Spellskite
1 Dauthi Horror
1 Dusk Mangler
1 Phyrexian Rager
1 Plague Spitter
1 Ravenous Chupacabra
1 Fractured Sanity
1 Crippling Fear
1 Hex
1 In Garruk's Wake
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Syphon Mind
1 Extract from Darkness
1 Pull from Tomorrow
1 Curtains' Call
1 Memory Plunder
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Drown in the Loch
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Dimir Keyrune
1 Dimir Signet
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Herald's Horn
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Mindcrank
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Thought Vessel
1 Leyline of Anticipation
1 Reflections of Littjara
1 Black Market
1 Choked Estuary
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Drownyard Temple
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Nephalia Drownyard
1 River of Tears
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Command Tower
1 Ash Barrens
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Port of Karfell
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Tainted Isle
1 Temple of the False God
3 Island
2 Island
2 Island
2 Island
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
2 Swamp
1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer
1 Haunted One
1 Aboleth Spawn
1 Endless Evil
1 Grell Philosopher
1 Psionic Ritual
1 Brainstealer Dragon
1 From the Catacombs
1 Uchuulon

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