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Below average

The unchanged precon wins 40% of its games – the average at a four-player table is 25%. In the rankings up to €400 it would be #33 of 64.

Tier · Elo
C 1491
would be #33 of 64 in the rankings up to €400
Win rate
40%
16 wins in 40 games, 95% certain between 26 and 55%
Placements
1st: 40 %2nd: 22 %3rd: 18 %4th: 20 %2.2avg. place
  • 140%16×
  • 222%9×
  • 318%7×
  • 420%8×
in the last 40 games
Price
€60.04of €400.00
Games
40in 4 tournaments
Cards
10038 lands, 16 basic
Game Changer
0at most 3 allowed
Combos
0complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

Official Commander precon “Avengers Assemble” – played exactly as sold in stores, without a single change. It plays in every tournament and price class as a benchmark, so it is not ranked. Why do precons play?

Strengths and weaknesses

From 40 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class.

Play style: wins through combat – 100% of the damage to opponents is combat damage · How it wins: 6% of wins by surviving (knocked out at most one opponent itself, the others took each other out) – all-deck avg: 31%

Strengths

  • Applies a lot of pressure: avg 49 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (40 games)
  • Clears the table: eliminates 1.12 opponents per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (40 games)
  • Uses its mana well: only 13% of lands went unused in a turn (all-deck avg: 26%) – the deck almost always has something to play logged (measured on own turns 3–8, 40 games)
  • Resilient: even in losses it lasts until its 11th own turn on average (all-deck avg: 10th) logged (24 losses)

Weaknesses

  • Attacks often get blocked: 27% of attackers blocked (all-deck avg: 18%) logged (711 attackers in 40 games)
grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (29)

Instants (7)

Sorceries (6)

Artifacts (14)

Enchantments (5)

Lands (38)

Captain America, Team Leader
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

The games in numbers

Commander cast
100%of games, by turn 4 in 52%
Damage per game
49average: 29
Wins on average
turn 12.2own turn, average: 11.7
First one out
18%7 of 40 games, average: 25%
Too few lands
8%of games, 2 of them won, average: 10%
Mulligans
2%1 in 40 games, average: 5%

Cards with a measurable effect

A correlation, not proof: these cards were cast clearly more often in wins.

What the games show

From 40 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 40 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger avg 10.7hit in 14 of 40 games
  2. Captain America, Team Leader avg 9.1hit in 24 of 40 games
  3. Quicksilver, Speedster avg 2.3hit in 9 of 40 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger avg 30.4hit in 14 of 40 games
  2. Falcon and Redwing avg 20.2hit in 4 of 40 games
  3. War Machine, Avenging Arsenal avg 16.5hit in 4 of 40 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger 17×40 games in deck
  2. Captain America, Team Leader 5×40 games in deck
  3. Falcon and Redwing 3×40 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Austere Command 45×avg 1.1 per game · 40 games in deck
  2. Avenge 33×avg 0.8 per game · 40 games in deck
  3. Dismantling Wave 11×avg 0.3 per game · 40 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 27% of 711 attackers blocked in total, 18% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Heroic Return 0%cast in 0 of 40 games
  2. Heroic Sacrifice 0%cast in 0 of 40 games
  3. Reconnaissance Mission 2%cast in 1 of 40 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 16 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–90%
  • turns 10–1150%
  • turns 12–1319%
  • turn 14+31%

Elo history

Elo after every tournament, oldest on the left. Dashed: tier limits S, A, B, C.

A 1600B 1500C 140011/02: Elo 134011/05: Elo 143711/05: Elo 143711/06: Elo 149111/0211/0511/06

Now 1491, highest 1491 (11/06), lowest 1340 – from 4 tournaments.

Recent games

Place in every 4-player game, oldest on the left: gold = win, silver = 2nd, bronze = 3rd, red = 4th, ring = draw.

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In the last 40 games 16× win, 9× 2nd, 7× 3rd and 8× 4th.

Mana curve without lands

Average 3.36

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19
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16
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10
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8
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7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
10 / 10
Card draw
12 / 12
Removal
6 / 8
Board wipe
4 / 3
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
27 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 61 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures: 29 %Instants: 7 %Sorceries: 6 %Artifacts: 14 %Enchantments: 5 %Lands: 38 %99w/o commander
  • Creatures29%29
  • Instants7%7
  • Sorceries6%6
  • Artifacts14%14
  • Enchantments5%5
  • Lands38%38

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Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?