While there are guidelines to keep in mind when deck building (no Game Changers in Exhibition or Core, no mass land denial through Upgraded, etc.), the bracket system is emphatically not just "put your deck into a calculator, get assigned a rank, and be ready to play." I deeply appreciate the tools that websites like Moxfield and Archidekt have put together to give you an overall estimate, and they've done some fantastic iteration to help emphasize intent as wellbut I want to stress that any estimate is just an estimate
While the most obvious question we could ask is, Is there a Commander deck here? the question I set out to answer was, What does Energy do that will contribute to a winning strategy? Its easy to see Energy as more of a Rube Goldberg machine than an effective resource, and so I set out with the intention of doing just that
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Originally, I wanted to build a giant, five-colored zoo deck featuring Vampire Bats, Manta Rays, Stampeding Rhinos, Mountain Goats, and Savannah Lions
We know how hard it can be to interact with 'walkers for some colors
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