Ranar the Ever-Watchful card art — Art by Kieran Yanner · © Wizards of the Coast

Phantom Premonition

Bracket 2

KHC — Kaldheim Commander · 2021-02-05

Commander: Ranar the Ever-Watchful · Color identity: UW

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 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 2 Kaldheim Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 4.0 versus a set average of 4.1. 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 Kaldheim Commander decks

Elven Empire — Bracket 2, power 4.2

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 Ranar the Ever-Watchful'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
Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $23.09

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Ranar the Ever-Watchful
1 Angel of Finality
1 Angel of Serenity
1 Arcane Artisan
1 Brago, King Eternal
1 Burnished Hart
1 Cloudblazer
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
1 Empyrean Eagle
1 Ethereal Valkyrie
1 Evangel of Heliod
1 Flickerwisp
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Goldnight Commander
1 Hero of Bretagard
1 Inspired Sphinx
1 Kor Cartographer
1 Meteor Golem
1 Mist Raven
1 Mistmeadow Witch
1 Mulldrifter
1 Restoration Angel
1 Sage of the Beyond
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Soulherder
1 Stoic Farmer
1 Sun Titan
1 Surtland Elementalist
1 Thunderclap Wyvern
1 Vega, the Watcher
1 Wall of Omens
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Behold the Multiverse
1 Cosmic Intervention
1 Eerie Interlude
1 Ghostly Flicker
1 Iron Verdict
1 Momentary Blink
1 Return to Dust
1 Saw It Coming
1 Synthetic Destiny
1 Warhorn Blast
1 Cleansing Nova
1 Curse of the Swine
1 Migratory Route
1 Ravenform
1 Spectral Deluge
1 Storm Herd
1 Tales of the Ancestors
1 Windfall
1 Banishing Light
1 Day of the Dragons
1 Ghostly Prison
1 Marshal's Anthem
1 Niko Defies Destiny
1 Arcane Signet
1 Azorius Signet
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Marble Diamond
1 Mind Stone
1 Replicating Ring
1 Sky Diamond
1 Sol Ring
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Command Tower
1 Cryptic Caves
1 Gates of Istfell
1 Glacial Floodplain
12 Island
1 Meandering River
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Opal Palace
13 Plains
1 Sejiri Refuge
1 Tranquil Cove

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