Nalia de'Arnise card art — Art by John Stanko · © Wizards of the Coast

Party Time

Bracket 2

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

Commander: Nalia de'Arnise · Color identity: BW

Bracket

Power Level

4.7/10

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 27/75 (11 interaction, 12 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 Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate decks we analyzed, this is 2nd strongest — power 4.7 versus a set average of 4.8. That is about average for the library (4.6 across 174 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 3, 1 turn earlier than the library median of turn 4.

More Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate decks

Exit from Exile — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Draconic Dissent — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Mind Flayarrrs — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Arm for Battle — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Aura of Courage — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Avengers Assemble — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Draconic Domination — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Grand Larceny — Bracket 2, power 4.7

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Nalia de'Arnise'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
Swords to Plowshares Interaction $0.88
Path to Exile Interaction $0.69
Generous Gift Interaction $0.94
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $14.67

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Nalia de'Arnise
1 Archpriest of Iona
1 Bygone Bishop
1 Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
1 Frontline Medic
1 Galepowder Mage
1 Glorious Protector
1 Jazal Goldmane
1 Magus of the Balance
1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
1 Mirror Entity
1 Order of Whiteclay
1 Selfless Spirit
1 Solemn Recruit
1 Squad Commander
1 Bloodsoaked Champion
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Calculating Lich
1 Dire Fleet Ravager
1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Grim Hireling
1 Mardu Strike Leader
1 Mindblade Render
1 Nighthawk Scavenger
1 Pontiff of Blight
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
1 High Priest of Penance
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Irregular Cohort
1 Mage's Attendant
1 Mother of Runes
1 Priest of Ancient Lore
1 Rumor Gatherer
1 Valiant Changeling
1 Changeling Outcast
1 Corpse Augur
1 Malakir Blood-Priest
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Austere Command
1 Dusk // Dawn
1 Sevinne's Reclamation
1 Thwart the Grave
1 Unbreakable Formation
1 Despark
1 Maskwood Nexus
1 Arcane Signet
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Firja's Retribution
1 Castle Locthwain
1 Mutavault
1 Shambling Vent
1 Temple of Silence
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 War Room
1 Windbrisk Heights
1 Command Tower
1 Ash Barrens
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Snowfield Sinkhole
1 Starlit Sanctum
1 Tainted Field
3 Plains
3 Plains
2 Plains
2 Plains
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
2 Swamp
2 Swamp
1 Burakos, Party Leader
1 Folk Hero
1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
1 Harper Recruiter
1 Seasoned Dungeoneer
1 Stick Together
1 Black Market Connections
1 Solemn Doomguide
1 Multiclass Baldric
1 Crib Swap

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