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Also called EDH or Elder Dragon Highlander, Commander is Magic's most popular format and all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature to serve as your commander and build the rest of your 100 card deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.

Commander combines the command zone, color identity, singleton deckbuilding, multiplayer strategies, and the entire MtG cardpool for one of the most exciting and fresh ways to play.

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Introducing Commander Brackets Beta (magic.wizards.com)

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[–] meant2live218 1 points 6 days ago

Rule 0 still exists. This is meant to help give a quick distinction for playing in "untrusted groups" where you don't know what other people consider a "7." You can state clearly that by the brackets, your deck is considered a 3, but also mention that it plays out more powerfully, like a 4.

For most players, this is a pretty helpful guide:

1 is for your jank and meme decks. It's not designed to be strong, it's just to do something funny.
2 is for precon level decks. Not awful, but definitely not optimized. A number of budget decks and pet decks may fit in here.
3 is for your good decks, but with the caveat that they're not full of the salt-inducing "game changers" or Mass Land Destruction or 2-card combos that go off turn 2.
4 is for your best non-CEDH decks. Push it as far as you want, understanding that other people at the table likely did the same
5 is for CEDH. If you don't know what that is, you're not playing a 5, just a powerful 4.

I know that most of my decks are 2s, or a 3 with 1-2 Game Changers. None that would really be 4s, but sometimes I can play them at a 4-level table and still luck out into a win.