Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy card art — Art by Fajareka Setiawan · © Wizards of the Coast

Tinker Time

Bracket 2

MOC — March of the Machine Commander · 2023-04-21

Commander: Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy · Color identity: GRU

Bracket

Power Level

4.4/10

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 24/75 (13 interaction, 11 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 5 March of the Machine Commander decks we analyzed, this is 2nd strongest — power 4.4 versus a set average of 4.3. That is about average for the library (4.6 across 174 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More March of the Machine Commander decks

Cavalry Charge — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Divine Convocation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Call for Backup — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Growing Threat — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Ahoy Mateys — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Blame Game — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Calling All Angels — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Chaos Incarnate — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Draconic Destruction — Bracket 2, power 4.4

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy'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
Cultivate Ramp $0.41
Kodama's Reach Ramp $1.77
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.23
Rampant Growth Ramp $1.28
Three Visits Ramp $5.55

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $16.85

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy
1 Rashmi and Ragavan
1 Schema Thief
1 Sandsteppe War Riders
1 Cutthroat Negotiator
1 Hedron Detonator
1 Ichor Elixir
1 Path of the Animist
1 Pain Distributor
1 Dance with Calamity
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Feldon of the Third Path
1 Chaos Warp
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Academy Manufactor
1 Aid from the Cowl
1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
1 Brass's Bounty
1 Cinder Glade
1 Echo Storm
1 Everquill Phoenix
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fiery Confluence
1 Frostboil Snarl
1 Game Trail
1 Gilded Goose
1 Hellkite Igniter
1 Imprisoned in the Moon
1 Inspiring Statuary
1 Master of Etherium
1 Masterful Replication
1 Perplexing Test
1 Rise and Shine
1 Saheeli's Artistry
1 Sharding Sphinx
1 Shimmer Dragon
1 Skyclave Relic
1 Spell Swindle
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Temple of Abandon
1 Temple of Epiphany
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Thopter Assembly
1 Thopter Spy Network
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Vedalken Humiliator
1 Vineglimmer Snarl
1 Workshop Elders
1 Command Tower
1 Crack Open
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Fractured Powerstone
1 Gruul Signet
1 Izzet Signet
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Reverse Engineer
1 Root Out
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Simic Signet
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thoughtcast
1 Replicating Ring
1 Arcane Signet
1 Combine Chrysalis
1 Curse of Opulence
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
1 Junk Winder
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Reality Shift
1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
1 Sol Ring
1 Struggle // Survive
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Vampires' Vengeance
1 Weirding Wood
1 Whirler Rogue
8 Island
8 Mountain
7 Forest

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