Jared Carthalion card art — Art by Manuel Castañón · © Wizards of the Coast

Painbow

Bracket 2

DMC — Dominaria United Commander · 2022-09-09

Commander: Jared Carthalion · Color identity: BGRUW

Bracket

Power Level

3.6/10

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 20/75 (15 interaction, 13 card draw)
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 2 Dominaria United Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 3.6 versus a set average of 3.8. That is 1.0 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Dominaria United Commander decks

Legends' Legacy — Bracket 2, power 4.0

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Breed Lethality — Bracket 2, power 3.8
Forged In Stone — Bracket 2, power 3.9
Heavenly Inferno — Bracket 2, power 3.9
Keen Engineering — Bracket 2, power 3.9
Nature of the Beast — Bracket 2, power 3.9

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Jared Carthalion'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
Sol Ring Ramp $1.34
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.23
Rampant Growth Ramp $1.28
Three Visits Ramp $5.55
Swords to Plowshares Interaction $0.88

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $16.89

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Jared Carthalion
1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
1 Baleful Strix
1 Chromanticore
1 Coiling Oracle
1 O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
1 Faeburrow Elder
1 Fusion Elemental
1 Zaxara, the Exemplary
1 Hero of Precinct One
1 Illuna, Apex of Wishes
1 Knight of New Alara
1 Maelstrom Archangel
1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
1 Rienne, Angel of Rebirth
1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Surrak Dragonclaw
1 Transguild Courier
1 Glint-Eye Nephilim
1 Xyris, the Writhing Storm
1 Cultivate
1 Duneblast
1 Explore
1 Explosive Vegetation
1 Farseek
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Lavalanche
1 Merciless Eviction
1 Migration Path
1 Painful Truths
1 Radiant Flames
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Time Wipe
1 Abzan Charm
1 Beast Within
1 Echoing Truth
1 Growth Spiral
1 Terminate
1 Naya Charm
1 Path to Exile
1 Sultai Charm
1 Sylvan Reclamation
1 Arcane Signet
1 Coalition Relic
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Prophetic Prism
1 Abundant Growth
1 Maelstrom Nexus
1 Path to the World Tree
1 Bad River
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Canopy Vista
1 Cascading Cataracts
1 Cinder Glade
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Crystal Quarry
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Flood Plain
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Grasslands
1 Jungle Shrine
1 Krosan Verge
1 Mountain Valley
1 Murmuring Bosk
1 Mystic Monastery
1 Nomad Outpost
1 Opulent Palace
1 Prairie Stream
1 Rocky Tar Pit
1 Sandsteppe Citadel
1 Savage Lands
1 Seaside Citadel
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile
1 Two-Headed Hellkite
1 Tiller Engine
1 Unite the Coalition
1 Fallaji Wayfarer
1 Iridian Maelstrom
1 Mana Cannons
1 Primeval Spawn
1 Obsidian Obelisk
3 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Island
2 Plains
2 Swamp

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