How many lands, ramp and draw do Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks run?
Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks run a median of 34 lands and 10 ramp cards, across 60 public decks on Moxfield.
Moxfield lists 13 of these 60 Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks as bracket 4, and they get a column of their own in the bracket table below.
Counted on , from decks collected in July and November 2026.
We counted these 60 decks with the same code EDHTuner runs on your deck.
Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks run close to the all-deck median in every row.
The first number in each row is the median for these decks, and the range after it covers the middle half of them. The last column is the median across all 18,414 decks we counted.
| This commander | All decks | |
|---|---|---|
| Lands | 34 (31-36) | 34 |
| Ramp | 10 (8-13) | 11 |
| Card advantage | 8 (6-10) | 9 |
| Targeted disruption | 9 (7-11) | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 2 (1-3) | 2 |
| Protection | 2 (1-2) | 2 |
| Decks counted | 60 | 18,414 |
Moxfield lists these decks as bracket 2 (10 decks), bracket 3 (33), bracket 4 (13) and bracket 5 (4).
Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks by bracket
These are the same rows for each bracket that holds at least 8 of these decks, by the bracket Moxfield lists for each one. The Brackets 1-2 and Bracket 4 columns hold 10 and 13 decks. Those are small counts, so their medians can sit a card or two away from what bigger counts would show.
| Brackets 1-2 | Bracket 3 | Bracket 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 36 (31-37) | 34 (32-35) | 31 (30-34) |
| Ramp | 11 (7-15) | 9 (7-12) | 11 (10-11) |
| Card advantage | 7.5 (6-9) | 9 (8-10) | 6 (6-11) |
| Targeted disruption | 11 (8-13) | 8 (7-11) | 9 (7-9) |
| Mass disruption | 2 (1-3) | 2 (1-3) | 2 (1-2) |
| Protection | 2 (1-3) | 2 (1-2) | 2 (1-2) |
| Decks counted | 10 | 33 | 13 |
What Sméagol, Helpful Guide bracket 1 and 2 decks run
These are the nonland cards these 10 bracket 1 and 2 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column counts the same cards in the other 50 Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks. With 10 decks this is a small count, so a few more decks could change the order.
| Card | Brackets 1-2 | This commander's other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Bombadil's Song | 9 of 10 | 24 of 50 |
| Claim the Precious | 9 of 10 | 24 of 50 |
| Gollum, Patient Plotter | 9 of 10 | 41 of 50 |
| Sam's Desperate Rescue | 9 of 10 | 28 of 50 |
| Call of the Ring | 8 of 10 | 47 of 50 |
| Sol Ring | 8 of 10 | 35 of 50 |
| Viscera Seer | 8 of 10 | 31 of 50 |
| Arcane Signet | 7 of 10 | 17 of 50 |
| Inherited Envelope | 7 of 10 | 10 of 50 |
| The Black Breath | 7 of 10 | 5 of 50 |
What Sméagol, Helpful Guide bracket 3 decks run
These are the nonland cards these 33 bracket 3 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column counts the same cards in the other 27 Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks.
| Card | Bracket 3 | This commander's other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Call of the Ring | 32 of 33 | 23 of 27 |
| Nazgûl | 30 of 33 | 15 of 27 |
| Sakura-Tribe Elder | 28 of 33 | 16 of 27 |
| Scute Swarm | 27 of 33 | 20 of 27 |
| Gollum, Patient Plotter | 26 of 33 | 24 of 27 |
| Bloodghast | 24 of 33 | 19 of 27 |
| Sol Ring | 20 of 33 | 23 of 27 |
| Witch-king of Angmar | 20 of 33 | 10 of 27 |
| One Ring to Rule Them All | 19 of 33 | 9 of 27 |
| Reanimate | 19 of 33 | 16 of 27 |
What Sméagol, Helpful Guide bracket 4 decks run
These are the nonland cards these 13 bracket 4 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column counts the same cards in the other 47 Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks. With 13 decks this is a small count, so a few more decks could change the order.
| Card | Bracket 4 | This commander's other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Bloodghast | 13 of 13 | 30 of 47 |
| Scute Swarm | 13 of 13 | 34 of 47 |
| Assassin's Trophy | 12 of 13 | 20 of 47 |
| Call of the Ring | 12 of 13 | 43 of 47 |
| Gollum, Patient Plotter | 12 of 13 | 38 of 47 |
| Reanimate | 12 of 13 | 23 of 47 |
| Sol Ring | 12 of 13 | 31 of 47 |
| The One Ring | 12 of 13 | 19 of 47 |
| Viscera Seer | 12 of 13 | 27 of 47 |
| Dúnedain Rangers | 11 of 13 | 27 of 47 |
Where Sméagol, Helpful Guide bracket 4 and bracket 3 decks differ
These nonland cards are in a far bigger share of the 13 bracket 4 decks than of the 33 bracket 3 decks. For each one the gap is at least three decks in ten. Of these 8 cards, 4 are Game Changers. Moxfield lists any deck with more than three Game Changers as bracket 4 or higher, by its own count of them, so part of this gap comes from that rule.
| Card | Bracket 4 | Bracket 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vampiric Tutor | 10 of 13 | 1 of 33 |
| Demonic Tutor | 10 of 13 | 3 of 33 |
| Worldly Tutor | 6 of 13 | 0 of 33 |
| Diabolic Intent | 9 of 13 | 8 of 33 |
| Orcish Bowmasters | 7 of 13 | 3 of 33 |
| Assassin's Trophy | 12 of 13 | 16 of 33 |
| Viscera Seer | 12 of 13 | 16 of 33 |
| Phyrexian Altar | 8 of 13 | 6 of 33 |
What bracket is a Sméagol, Helpful Guide deck?
Of the 60 Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks we counted, 49 (82%) need at least bracket 3, and 18 (30%) need at least bracket 4.
Each deck's lowest bracket here comes from Wizards' bracket rules, as EDHTuner's engine reads them from the deck's cards. The engine checks Game Changers, two-card infinite combos from Commander Spellbook, mass land denial and extra-turn cards.
| Lowest bracket | Decks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bracket 1 | 11 | 18% |
| Bracket 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Bracket 3 | 31 | 52% |
| Bracket 4 | 18 | 30% |
One deck can meet several of these rules, and its lowest bracket is the highest one any of them asks for.
| What the deck runs | Needs at least | Decks |
|---|---|---|
| More than three Game Changers | Bracket 4 | 16 |
| Mass land denial | Bracket 4 | 2 |
| One to three Game Changers | Bracket 3 | 31 |
| A two-card infinite combo | Bracket 3 | 14 |
| An extra-turn card | Bracket 2 | 0 |
The rules also weigh how early a combo can win and whether extra turns get chained. The cards alone do not show that, so a deck can belong in a higher bracket than the one shown here. On Moxfield, 1 of these decks has a bracket below the lowest one the rules allow.
Cards Sméagol, Helpful Guide decks run most
These are the nonland cards these 60 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column is the share of the other decks we counted that run the same card, out of those whose colors allow it.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Call of the Ring | 55 of 60 | 2% |
| Gollum, Patient Plotter | 50 of 60 | under 1% |
| Scute Swarm | 47 of 60 | 6% |
| Nazgûl | 45 of 60 | under 1% |
| Sakura-Tribe Elder | 44 of 60 | 15% |
| Bloodghast | 43 of 60 | 2% |
| Sol Ring | 43 of 60 | 86% |
| Viscera Seer | 39 of 60 | 9% |
| Dúnedain Rangers | 38 of 60 | under 1% |
| Sam's Desperate Rescue | 37 of 60 | under 1% |
| Reanimate | 35 of 60 | 26% |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 35 of 60 | 6% |
| Tireless Provisioner | 35 of 60 | 8% |
| Bombadil's Song | 33 of 60 | under 1% |
| Claim the Precious | 33 of 60 | under 1% |
| Assassin's Trophy | 32 of 60 | 41% |
| The One Ring | 31 of 60 | 16% |
| Witch-king of Angmar | 30 of 60 | under 1% |
| One Ring to Rule Them All | 28 of 60 | under 1% |
| Beast Within | 27 of 60 | 33% |
Cards that set these decks apart
These cards are not in the table above. Each one is in at least three in ten of these decks, and the other decks whose colors allow it run it far less often.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Skullclamp | 27 of 60 | 12% |
| Lotus Cobra | 25 of 60 | 7% |
| Rampaging Baloths | 24 of 60 | 4% |
| Rise of the Witch-king | 24 of 60 | 2% |
| Altar of Dementia | 23 of 60 | 3% |
| Carrion Feeder | 23 of 60 | 6% |
| Rise of the Dark Realms | 23 of 60 | 3% |
| Springheart Nantuko | 22 of 60 | 4% |
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 22 of 60 | 6% |
| Breach the Multiverse | 21 of 60 | 3% |
Themes EDHTuner finds in these decks
EDHTuner reads each deck's themes from the rules text on its cards, the same way it reads yours. This is how many of the 60 decks it finds each theme in, for the themes it finds in at least a quarter of them. One deck can have several.
| Theme | Decks |
|---|---|
| Graveyard value | 60 of 60 |
| The Ring tempts you | 60 of 60 |
| Landfall | 52 of 60 |
| Reanimator | 35 of 60 |
| Mill | 21 of 60 |
Similar commanders
Decks for these commanders have the same colors as these decks, or EDHTuner finds some of the same themes in them. The words after each name say what they share.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale Mill, Landfall, Reanimator
- Sin, Spira's Punishment Mill, Landfall, Reanimator
- Tom Bombadil The Ring tempts you, Reanimator, Graveyard value
- Ratadrabik of Urborg The Ring tempts you, Reanimator, Graveyard value
- Sauron, the Dark Lord The Ring tempts you, Reanimator, Graveyard value
- Sauron, Lord of the Rings The Ring tempts you, Reanimator, Graveyard value
The Commander deck numbers page shows the same rows for each bracket and says what each row counts.
The brackets 1-2, bracket 3 and bracket 4 pages show what all the decks we counted at those brackets run.
The lands page shows how many lands Commander decks run at each bracket, and the bracket checker names the lowest bracket your own deck fits.
Paste your deck into EDHTuner to see its own counts and the numbers it aims for, along with cards to add and cut. The guide to cutting cards shows how it picks them.