Help - Bracket Assistance
I recently found a pod to play with and it's mostly been great. However, our pod got into a little kerfuffle and now we're in the "your deck is not bracket X" territory. I just want to get a community estimate on my bracket since Archidekt and Mox both say mine are B2. I'm adamant its B3, but I'm worried it might actually be B4 (then I would actually be the issue).
Animar: https://archidekt.com/decks/22203548/animar
Raggadragga: https://archidekt.com/decks/22204618/raggadragga
I'm mostly a lurker on Reddit so please let me know if there is anything I can do to make the post's format easier on people.
Background:
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Both of these decks were originally running their respective early game combos (like [[Staff of Domination]] + Giant Mana Dork or [[Animar]] + [[Ancestral Statue]], but I removed them as soon as I heard that this was a B3 pod
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Both decks are very similar in terms of "build board - cheat mana - loop something for the win or [[Chandra's Ignition]]"
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I purposefully have very little interaction - I am of firm belief if someone goes off, great. Let them win and let's go next (as long as it doesn't become a degenerate "i'll make my deck faster" race)
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I think the decks are too fragile for B4 - if I don't have Rag or Animar out, the whole plan fizzles. Heck, a well timed counter and I'll be sitting there twiddling my thumbs.
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Yes - we skipped the Rule 0 discussion at first and that's on us. No need to berate us further
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I've already self-banned a couple of my decks because it was causing more salt than I wanted in the pod (Miirym Dragon Combo (too explosive), Gyruda Clone Storm (pod did not like milling), and Fairies (which started the whole issue - I got [[Expropriate]] off and it turned into "that is/isn't chaining extra turns).
Let me know what you think - and thanks for reading!
Posted May 1, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC