Szarekh, the Silent King card art — Art by Anton Solovianchyk · © Wizards of the Coast

Necron Dynasties

Bracket 2

40K — Warhammer 40,000 Commander · 2022-10-07

Commander: Szarekh, the Silent King · Color identity: B

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 (11 interaction, 7 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 4 Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — 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 Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks

The Ruinous Powers — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Tyranid Swarm — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Forces of the Imperium — Bracket 2, power 4.3

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

5 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Szarekh, the Silent King'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.

Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
Sign in Blood Card advantage $3.14
Lightning Greaves Protection $4.10
Command Tower Lands $0.25

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Szarekh, the Silent King
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Living Death
1 Mutilate
1 Dread Return
1 Defile
1 Darkness
1 Go for the Throat
1 Caged Sun
1 Endless Atlas
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Mystic Forge
1 Sculpting Steel
1 Cranial Plating
1 Hedron Archive
1 Mask of Memory
1 Sol Ring
1 Arcane Signet
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Mind Stone
1 Thought Vessel
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Barren Moor
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Desert of the Glorified
1 Polluted Mire
1 Vault of Whispers
10 Swamp
10 Swamp
10 Swamp
1 Imotekh the Stormlord
1 Anrakyr the Traveller
1 Biotransference
1 Chronomancer
1 Cryptek
1 Illuminor Szeras
1 Lokhust Heavy Destroyer
1 Lychguard
1 Necron Deathmark
1 Necron Overlord
1 Out of the Tombs
1 Royal Warden
1 Shard of the Nightbringer
1 Shard of the Void Dragon
1 Skorpekh Lord
1 Technomancer
1 Their Name Is Death
1 Their Number Is Legion
1 Tomb Blade
1 Trazyn the Infinite
1 Triarch Stalker
1 The War in Heaven
1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
1 Canoptek Spyder
1 Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
1 Canoptek Wraith
1 Convergence of Dominion
1 Cryptothrall
1 Ghost Ark
1 Necron Monolith
1 Resurrection Orb
1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory
1 Tomb Fortress
1 Flayed One
1 Hexmark Destroyer
1 Plasmancer
1 Psychomancer
1 Sautekh Immortal
1 Skorpekh Destroyer
1 Triarch Praetorian
1 Night Scythe

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/NecronDynasties_40K.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.