Today's release implements some support for the new Commander Bracket system proposed by wizards:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta

Commander decks will display now a "minimum suggested bracket", based on the criteria from wizards. I have reviewed the criteria moxfield uses for their support, and these are almost identical. There is also no "combo detection" - so that part of the analysis is completely ignored.

Part of this change also introduces a set of "tags" or "archetypes" for cards, so as to distinguish the cards relevant to this calculation - Mass Land Denial, Tutors, Extra Turn Cards and the new concept of Commander Game Changers - as defined by Wizards.

Game Changer is a separate (boolean) filter now, in the Commander filter submenu, available in all collection sets & card database. The other 3 "archetypes" are available as a filter in the "Basic Card Properties" submenu:
e.g. all tutors and extra turns: https://deckbox.org/games/mtg/cards?f=z531.2

I have called this filter Archetype / Role for now, but I'm not too happy with the naming, so any suggestions are welcome.

I would like to evolve this tagging mechanism gradually to also encompass other "external" card tags / qualifiers, but I did not yet decide on how to approach this. Many of you have requested card tags such as Ramp for example, and others, that could be useful in deckbuilding. Indeed, many users are using the "Note tags" feature in decks for this - but it's not very user-friendly or elegant feature yet.

This would need to also support user-suggestions or votes of some sort, so that the community can "Report" or "Suggest" corrections - in the spirit of the scryfall tagger - but with a much more limited scope.

How this would exactly work I'm not yet sure, but - as usual - any thoughts and feedback are happily accepted.

Wow! This is a great feature. It is really interesting to get all of the relevant cards that are used for making this bracket determination.

It seems like it would be nice to turn the name for each category into links that would search for all of the cards in that category (which you could of course filter later as normal).

It would also be nice to add a user-settable field for the commander bracket in case the person disagrees with your suggestion, though keep the suggestion there.

Second that this is really great.
Also just wanted to let you know that the spotlight series terror of the peaks is missing.
https://scryfall.com/card/pspl/1/terror-of-the-peaks

Thanks for everything!

This is a great new feature. Thank you!

This is an unrelated question, but I've always wondered if the "Format (legal )" check should also check if the proper number of cards are in the deck or if that should be a different check.

For example, I am building this deck https://deckbox.org/sets/3712182, which only has 83 cards in it, but it displays as legal for commander. If I add a second copy of a card like Acidic Slime it shows the deck as invalid.

Cheers, Paul

I was hoping this would be implemented eventually. Thanks for the add!

How would you like us to suggest recommendations on card tags?

As for your archetype/role field, perhaps something like "Aspect" as most of the 'roles' for cards can be subjective as they may fit many different roles, in that way you could say a card has multiple aspects and add them like the tag feature you are talking about.

TheWorldHatesPaul wrote: For example, I am building this deck https://deckbox.org/sets/3712182, which only has 83 cards in it, but it displays as legal for commander.

There is another "warning" icon below next to the number of cards in the main deck section, on hover it should say "incomplete". I agree this is somwhat confusingly separately placed from the legal thing. I will think about presenting this in a nicer way.

Another great update, can't sing your praises enough. Slowly but surely I'm converting my whole playgroup to deckbox, and these always help my case!

One question regarding the brackets, and this may simply be a product of my usage, but would love any suggestions of solutions from the community:
For my commander decks, I use the sideboard section as a "maybeboard" of cards I own, that are not in the 100. I use the scratchpad to track potential upgrades for the decks. Pretty minor inconvenience, but currently the bracket calculator seems to include the sideboard. Is there, or could there be, a way to make that calculator ignore the sideboard (Since there are no sideboards in the format anyway). And if not, does anyone have a suggestion for a better way to organize my lists?

sebi wrote:

TheWorldHatesPaul wrote: For example, I am building this deck https://deckbox.org/sets/3712182, which only has 83 cards in it, but it displays as legal for commander.

There is another "warning" icon below next to the number of cards in the main deck section, on hover it should say "incomplete". I agree this is somwhat confusingly separately placed from the legal thing. I will think about presenting this in a nicer way.

Ahh, now I see it! I must admit in the many years of using this site I have never once noticed that incomplete icon! From a UX/UI perspective, I think it is because it is inline with " Main Deck " and I have been trained on the site to expect to look at the top of the page near the Format indicator for that type of information.
Cheers, Paul

Thanks for adding this! I had started using tags to track the game changers in my decks.

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that the special guests for Dragonstorm (fetches) don't seem to be available.

Seeing some odd behavior in Inventory sorting from this update I believe. I wanted to double check inventory counts of my non-foil Dragons of Tarkir collection so I set filters `Edition Owned - Is one of - Dragons of Tarkir` and `Is Foil - Equals - False`. A couple things I noticed:

1. Other editions are showing up in the results. I would expect that to be the result of using filter `Was Printed in Edition`, not `Edition Owned`.
2. The `Sort by Edition & Card Number` option does not change the order of the cards (Always ascending order). I would expect this button to toggle sorting ascending/descending by card number.
3. There are cards missing from the results. For example, I have 7 copies of Champion of Arashin that I would have expected to show up in the results.




I haven't run any other tests. Link to my inventory with the filters in question: https://deckbox.org/sets/176580?f=c3333!d4MA**&s=m&o=d

Fixed now an issue with the "Edition Owned" filtering & sorting (introduced yesterday). Thanks for reporting.

Is there any chance of getting a new filter for card color instead of only filtering for color identity?

I'm not sure if cards like Embermage Goblin and Renowned Weaponsmith should count as tutors in Deckbox. Because they only search for a very specific card, I would put them in the same camp as cards that search for basic lands or forests. Especially in the case of cards looking for additional copies of themselves, because you won't have the copy in your deck in Commander. Here is a list I found of cards that find copies of themselves for reference:

- Avarax
- Battalion Foot Soldier
- Daru Cavalier
- Elvish Clancaller
- Gathering Throng
- Gigantiform
- Growth-Chamber Guardian
- Howling Wolf
- Infectious Bloodlust
- Legion Conquistador
- Llanowar Sentinel
- Skyshroud Sentinel
- Squadron Hawk
- Trustworthy Scout
- Welkin Hawk
- Whisper Squad
- Wretched Throng

Honorable Mention of:
- Say Its Name (only can search for a card if you exile three copies of it)

Also, because Archetypes / Roles are only used in Commander, it might be better to put it under "Commander Properties" rather than "Basic Card Properties". If you expand it to include other Functions within a deck (like you mentioned), than putting it under "Basic Card Properties" makes sense.

BearIncorporated wrote:Here is a list I found of cards that find copies of themselves for reference:

You're right, I'm removing these today.