What should you cut from the Blight Curse precon?
Blight Curse is the Auntie Ool, Cursewretch precon, released on January 23, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names one cut, and it rests on the deck's own counts. Here it is, with the reason it gives.
| Card | Why EDHTuner would cut it |
|---|---|
| Hoarder's Greed | You have more card advantage than you need. You're at 16, and we aim for 12. One can go. |
Where a deck runs more of a job than EDHTuner aims for, EDHREC's play data helps pick which of those cards goes first.
The deck is short on ramp and mass disruption. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch leads a -1/-1 counters deck that also leans on proliferate. Its main plan to win is to attack with big creatures, and it holds 2 combos listed on Commander Spellbook. Its 100 cards include 39 lands, 7 ramp, 16 card advantage and 10 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Blight Curse precon is bracket 3 or higher.
| Card | Why it counts |
|---|---|
| Blowfly Infestation | With Flourishing Defenses, a two-card infinite combo. Brackets 1 and 2 allow none, and bracket 3 only if it can't come together early in the game. |
| Blowfly Infestation | With Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, a two-card infinite combo. Brackets 1 and 2 allow none, and bracket 3 only if it can't come together early in the game. |
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 EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Blight Curse | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 39 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 16 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 0 | No set number | 2 | 3 |
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Blight Curse.
- -1/-1 counters
- Proliferate
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as. Two cards show in more than one group, because each one fits more than one of them.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Auntie Ool, Cursewretch |
Lands, 39 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| Canyon Slough | 1 |
| Cinder Glade | 1 |
| Command Tower | 1 |
| Dragonskull Summit | 1 |
| Evolving Wilds | 1 |
| Exotic Orchard | 1 |
| Festering Thicket | 1 |
| Forest | 6 |
| Golgari Rot Farm | 1 |
| Gruul Turf | 1 |
| Ifnir Deadlands | 1 |
| Mountain | 4 |
| Nesting Grounds | 1 |
| Path of Ancestry | 1 |
| Rakdos Carnarium | 1 |
| Riveteers Overlook | 1 |
| Rootbound Crag | 1 |
| Savage Lands | 1 |
| Sheltered Thicket | 1 |
| Smoldering Marsh | 1 |
| Swamp | 8 |
| Terramorphic Expanse | 1 |
| Vernal Fen | 1 |
| Woodland Cemetery | 1 |
Ramp, 7 cards
| Arcane Signet | Channeler Initiate | Commander's Sphere |
| Devoted Druid | Ignoble Hierarch | Sol Ring |
| Wickersmith's Tools |
Card advantage, 16 cards
| Auntie Ool, Cursewretch | Burning Curiosity | Cathartic Reunion |
| Chimil, the Inner Sun | Dusk Urchins | Glissa Sunslayer |
| Grave Venerations | Harmonize | Hoarder's Greed |
| Massacre Girl, Known Killer | Night's Whisper | Oft-Nabbed Goat |
| Painful Truths | Sinister Gnarlbark | The Scorpion God |
| Vraska, Betrayal's Sting |
Targeted disruption, 10 cards
| Assassin's Trophy | Binding the Old Gods | Cathartic Pyre |
| Fire Covenant | Glissa Sunslayer | Infernal Grasp |
| Liliana, Death Wielder | Putrefy | Terminate |
| Wickerbough Elder |
Mass disruption, 2 cards
| Black Sun's Zenith | Chain Reaction |
Everything else, 27 cards
| Aberrant Return | Archfiend of Ifnir | Blowfly Infestation |
| Carnifex Demon | Contagion Clasp | Dread Tiller |
| Eventide's Shadow | Everlasting Torment | Evolution Sage |
| Ferrafor, Young Yew | Flourishing Defenses | Grave Titan |
| Grim Poppet | Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons | Incremental Blight |
| Kulrath Knight | Lasting Tarfire | Midnight Banshee |
| Necroskitter | Persist | Puca's Covenant |
| Puppeteer Clique | Skinrender | Soul Snuffers |
| The Reaper, King No More | Tree of Perdition | Village Pillagers |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add and every cut it names, and it playtests each swap it suggests.
The Auntie Ool, Cursewretch page shows what public Auntie Ool, Cursewretch decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.