How do you bring a Commander deck down to bracket 3?
Bracket 3 allows three Game Changers. Paste your deck, pick bracket 3, and EDHTuner names the fewest Game Changers to cut to get down to three, with its reason for each cut.
Its bracket check reads your deck's Game Changers, mass land denial, extra-turn cards and two-card infinite combos against Wizards' bracket rules, and names the lowest bracket the deck fits. The cuts on this page deal with Game Changers only. Below bracket 4 EDHTuner never suggests adding a mass land denial card.
How EDHTuner picks the cuts
Brackets 1 and 2 allow no Game Changers, bracket 3 allows three, and brackets 4 and 5 have no limit. When your deck runs more than its bracket allows, EDHTuner names exactly as many Game Changer cuts as it takes to get down to the limit.
It cuts the easiest to replace first. A Game Changer doing a job your deck would still have enough of without it, like ramp or card advantage, goes before one whose job would run short without it. Free spells, alternate ways to win and the cards your deck's plan runs on go last.
Each cut says why. When the card does a job other cards can do, like ramp, card advantage, removal, a board wipe, a counterspell, a tutor or a tax effect, EDHTuner also names up to two cards that do the same job and are not Game Changers, from the cards your colors allow that the deck doesn't already run.
Your commander counts toward the limit, and EDHTuner never names it as a cut.
How many Game Changers would a bracket 4 deck cut?
Bracket 4 decks on Moxfield run a median of 6 Game Changers, and bracket 3 decks run 2. 3,840 of the 4,715 bracket 4 decks run more than three. To get down to three, the median one of those would have to cut 4.
These are the 20 Game Changers the most bracket 4 decks run, with the share of decks that run each one at brackets 3, 4 and 5. Game Changer lands count here too. Counted on , from decks collected in July and November 2026.
| Card | Bracket 3 | Bracket 4 | Bracket 5 (cEDH) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Tomb | 10% | 50% | 85% |
| Rhystic Study | 7% | 35% | 52% |
| Chrome Mox | under 1% | 35% | 88% |
| Demonic Tutor | 7% | 34% | 48% |
| Mana Vault | 2% | 34% | 78% |
| Cyclonic Rift | 11% | 33% | 30% |
| Vampiric Tutor | 4% | 32% | 48% |
| Fierce Guardianship | 7% | 31% | 45% |
| Mox Diamond | under 1% | 27% | 82% |
| Enlightened Tutor | 6% | 27% | 38% |
| The One Ring | 8% | 27% | 41% |
| Smothering Tithe | 11% | 24% | 23% |
| Force of Will | 1% | 24% | 51% |
| Mystical Tutor | 3% | 23% | 41% |
| Worldly Tutor | 4% | 20% | 30% |
| Jeska's Will | 12% | 19% | 27% |
| Teferi's Protection | 12% | 18% | 2% |
| Gamble | 3% | 16% | 38% |
| Imperial Seal | under 1% | 16% | 40% |
| Crop Rotation | 5% | 14% | 26% |
Moxfield lists any deck with more than three Game Changers as bracket 4 or higher. That rule is why 6,056 of the 6,057 bracket 3 decks here run three or fewer. We count Game Changers by our card data from October 23, 2026, and by that count one of them runs four.
What about bracket 2?
Brackets 1 and 2 allow no Game Changers. At brackets 1 and 2, EDHTuner names every Game Changer in your deck as a cut, apart from your commander. None of the 4,822 bracket 1 and 2 decks we counted runs one, because Moxfield lists any deck with a Game Changer as bracket 3 or higher. 863 of the 6,057 bracket 3 decks (14%) run none either.
Can EDHTuner tell me what bracket my deck is?
Yes. It names the lowest bracket your deck fits under Wizards' bracket rules, and the cards that put it there. The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how it reads each rule, and the FAQ covers the rest of what it checks and what leaves your browser.
Paste your deck with bracket 3 picked. If it runs more than three Game Changers, EDHTuner names the cuts.
More numbers from these decks
- How many lands Commander decks run
- What bracket 1 and 2 decks run
- What bracket 3 decks run
- What bracket 4 decks run
- What cEDH decks run
- Commander deck numbers by bracket
The bracket checker names the lowest bracket your own deck fits.