Sneak Attack
Bracket 3Bracket
Power Level
Tipping Point
Game Changers
Why this bracket?
- 1 Game Changer — notion thief. Per WotC framework, any Game Changer forces a Bracket 3 floor minimum.
- 1 Game Changer detected (any = Bracket 3 floor; Bracket 3 allows up to three)
- Extra turn effect detected: 1 card (= Bracket 2 floor)
- Borderline verdict — close to B2: Bracket 3 solely on a single Game Changer (Notion Thief) — otherwise plays at Core pace (goldfish ~turn 10), no combo or fast clock
- 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 Zendikar Rising Commander decks we analyzed, this is the strongest — power 5.6 versus a set average of 4.9. That is 1.0 above the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.
How to drop to Bracket 2Removing the 2 floors at Bracket 3 would drop your deck to Bracket 2.
More Zendikar Rising Commander decks
- Land's Wrath — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Other Bracket 3 precons at a similar power
- Abzan Armor — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Counterpunch — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Creative Energy — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Deep Clue Sea — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Exit from Exile — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Upgrade this precon
6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Anowon, the Ruin Thief'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
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Decklist (100 cards)
1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind 1 Enigma Thief 1 Scourge of Fleets 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury 1 Nighthowler 1 Ogre Slumlord 1 Sepulchral Primordial 1 Consuming Aberration 1 Notion Thief 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat 1 Faerie Vandal 1 Invisible Stalker 1 Latchkey Faerie 1 Marang River Prowler 1 Master Thief 1 Nightveil Sprite 1 Slither Blade 1 Triton Shorestalker 1 Whirler Rogue 1 Changeling Outcast 1 Frogtosser Banneret 1 Marsh Flitter 1 Oona's Blackguard 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 Zulaport Cutthroat 1 Merfolk Windrobber 1 Sure-Footed Infiltrator 1 Soaring Thought-Thief 1 Notorious Throng 1 Stolen Identity 1 In Garruk's Wake 1 Necromantic Selection 1 Distant Melody 1 Open into Wonder 1 Endless Obedience 1 Rise from the Grave 1 Extract from Darkness 1 Fated Return 1 Silumgar's Command 1 Spinal Embrace 1 Aetherize 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Murder 1 Price of Fame 1 Soul Manipulation 1 Whispersteel Dagger 1 Blackblade Reforged 1 Bonehoard 1 Obelisk of Urd 1 Scytheclaw 1 Arcane Signet 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Dimir Keyrune 1 Dimir Locket 1 Dimir Signet 1 Heirloom Blade 1 Mind Stone 1 Sol Ring 1 Military Intelligence 1 Command Tower 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Dimir Guildgate 1 Dismal Backwater 1 Jwar Isle Refuge 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Submerged Boneyard 15 Island 15 Swamp
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