Topic: Commander Brackets, new filter: Tutors, Land Denial, card Archetypes
Today's release implements some support for the new Commander Bracket system proposed by wizards:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/annou
ckets-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.