The Swarmlord card art — Art by Antonio José Manzanedo · © Wizards of the Coast

Tyranid Swarm

Bracket 2

40K — Warhammer 40,000 Commander · 2022-10-07

Commander: The Swarmlord · 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 25/75 (19 card draw, 9 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 4 Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks we analyzed, this is the 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 3, 1 turn earlier than the library median of turn 4.

More Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks

The Ruinous Powers — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Forces of the Imperium — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Necron Dynasties — 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 The Swarmlord'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
Kodama's Reach Ramp $1.77
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.23
Three Visits Ramp $5.55
Beast Within Interaction $0.65
Counterspell Interaction $4.28

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $20.09

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 The Swarmlord
1 Hull Breach
1 Cultivate
1 Explore
1 Farseek
1 Rampant Growth
1 Starstorm
1 Aetherize
1 Inspiring Call
1 Harrow
1 Icon of Ancestry
1 Herald's Horn
1 Sol Ring
1 Arcane Signet
1 Abundance
1 Death's Presence
1 Hardened Scales
1 Bred for the Hunt
1 New Horizons
1 Overgrowth
1 Cinder Glade
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Game Trail
1 Temple of Abandon
1 Temple of Epiphany
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Ash Barrens
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Unclaimed Territory
1 Cave of Temptation
1 Command Tower
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Opal Palace
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Rugged Highlands
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thornwood Falls
7 Mountain
7 Island
8 Forest
1 Magus Lucea Kane
1 Genestealer Patriarch
1 Exocrine
1 The Red Terror
1 Screamer-Killer
1 Biophagus
1 Bone Sabres
1 Broodlord
1 Clamavus
1 Haruspex
1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
1 Hormagaunt Horde
1 Lictor
1 Nexos
1 Old One Eye
1 Sporocyst
1 Termagant Swarm
1 Tervigon
1 Toxicrene
1 Tyrant Guard
1 Atalan Jackal
1 Deathleaper, Terror Weapon
1 The First Tyrannic War
1 Gargoyle Flock
1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
1 Malanthrope
1 Mawloc
1 Ravener
1 Shadow in the Warp
1 Tyranid Harridan
1 Tyranid Prime
1 Winged Hive Tyrant
1 Zoanthrope
1 Genestealer Locus
1 Acolyte Hybrid
1 Aberrant
1 Purestrain Genestealer
1 Tyranid Invasion
1 Trygon Prime
1 Venomthrope
1 Goliath Truck

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/TyranidSwarm_40K.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.