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Solid midfield

The unchanged precon wins 25% of its games – the average at a four-player table is 25%. In the rankings up to €200 it would be #22 of 64.

Tier · Elo
B 1565
would be #22 of 64 in the rankings up to €200
Win rate
25%
15 wins in 60 games, 95% certain between 16 and 37%
Placements
1st: 30 %2nd: 28 %3rd: 25 %4th: 18 %2.3avg. place
  • 130%12×
  • 228%11×
  • 325%10×
  • 418%7×
in the last 40 games
Price
€60.19of €200.00
Games
60in 6 tournaments
Cards
10038 lands, 32 basic
Game Changer
0at most 3 allowed
Combos
0complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

Official Commander precon “Reign of Dragons” – 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 60 analysed games in 6 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 – 84% of the damage to opponents is combat damage · How it wins: 13% 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 42 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 30) logged (60 games)
  • Uses its mana well: only 16% of lands went unused in a turn (all-deck avg: 24%) – the deck almost always has something to play logged (measured on own turns 3–8, 60 games)
  • Attacks get through: 6% of attackers blocked (all-deck avg: 17%) logged (485 attackers in 60 games)
  • Clears the table: eliminates 0.82 opponents per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.63) logged (60 games)

Weaknesses

  • Frequent mulligans: kept fewer than 7 cards in 13% of games (all-deck avg: 5%) logged (60 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 (27)

Instants (8)

Sorceries (5)

Artifacts (13)

Enchantments (8)

Lands (38)

Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

The games in numbers

Commander cast
100%of games, by turn 4 in 22%
Damage per game
42average: 30
Wins on average
turn 12.2own turn, average: 11.8
First one out
32%19 of 60 games, average: 25%
Too few lands
10%of games, 0 of them won, average: 10%
Mulligans
13%8 in 60 games, average: 5%

Cards with a measurable effect

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

  • Nogi, Draco-Zealot – won 50% of the games in which it was cast (10), otherwise 20%
  • Goldlust Triad – won 46% of the games in which it was cast (13), otherwise 19%

What the games show

From 60 analysed games in 6 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 60 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Lathliss, Dragon Queen avg 10.4hit in 36 of 60 games
  2. Dragon Token avg 4.4hit in 17 of 60 games
  3. Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest avg 2.8hit in 7 of 60 games

Damage when used when it hits

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

  1. Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest avg 23.9hit in 7 of 60 games
  2. Goldlust Triad avg 22.5hit in 6 of 60 games
  3. Hellkite Charger avg 21.9hit in 7 of 60 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

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

  1. Dragon Token 17×60 games in deck
  2. Lathliss, Dragon Queen 12×60 games in deck
  3. Hellkite Charger 3×60 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

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

  1. Abrade 5×avg 0.1 per game · 60 games in deck
  2. Parapet Thrasher 3×avg 0.1 per game · 60 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 6% of 485 attackers blocked in total, 43% 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. Warstorm Surge 3%cast in 2 of 60 games
  2. Unexpected Windfall 5%cast in 3 of 60 games
  3. Utvara Hellkite 5%cast in 3 of 60 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 15 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–90%
  • turns 10–1133%
  • turns 12–1333%
  • turn 14+33%

Elo history

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

A 1600B 1500C 140010/31: Elo 140210/31: Elo 144411/02: Elo 153611/04: Elo 153211/04: Elo 156011/05: Elo 156510/3111/0211/05

Now 1565, highest 1565 (11/05), lowest 1402 – from 6 tournaments.

Recent games

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

1144233121413233143221211432143421233212

In the last 40 games 12× win, 11× 2nd, 10× 3rd and 7× 4th.

Mana curve without lands

Average 3.69

0
6
1
11
2
16
3
11
4
7
5
3
6
7
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
13 / 11
Card draw
4 / 6
Removal
10 / 10
Board wipe
4 / 4
Protection
1 / 2
Strategy
29 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: 27 %Instants: 8 %Sorceries: 5 %Artifacts: 13 %Enchantments: 8 %Lands: 38 %99w/o commander
  • Creatures27%27
  • Instants8%8
  • Sorceries5%5
  • Artifacts13%13
  • Enchantments8%8
  • Lands38%38

Most expensive cards

Breath Weapon
€5.93
Utvara Hellkite
€5.01
Goldlust Triad
€3.96
Chandra's Ignition
€3.80
Herald's Horn
€3.30
Unexpected Windfall
€3.09
Basilisk Collar
€2.92
Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
€2.20

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