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Doom Prevails Collector's Edition

Commander precon · Marvel Super Heroes Commander · 2026 · led by Doctor Doom, King of Latveria

Main theme: Villain tribal · Synergy 3.8/5 (connected) · Bracket 1–2 · Doctor Doom, King of Latveria works with 23 of its cards

Upgrades at bracket 1–2

No Game Changers and no infinite combos: the level of an unchanged precon. Game Changers are cards on WotC's official list of cards that make a deck much stronger.

11 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 1–2.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.8 → 3.9 of 5, still connected. Its consistency is unchanged: Build stays at 4.6 of 5, on target; still 3 short on interaction, 1 short on card advantage, was 2. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Foreboding Ruins: Foreboding Ruins enters tapped. Put in Badlands: Badlands never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  2. Take out Frostboil Snarl: Frostboil Snarl enters tapped. Put in Cascade Bluffs: Cascade Bluffs never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  3. Take out Choked Estuary: Choked Estuary enters tapped. Put in Darkwater Catacombs: Darkwater Catacombs never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  4. Take out Dragonskull Summit: Dragonskull Summit can enter tapped. Put in Blood Crypt: Blood Crypt never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  5. Take out Sulfur Falls: Sulfur Falls can enter tapped. Put in Ferrous Lake: Ferrous Lake never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  6. Take out Drowned Catacomb: Drowned Catacomb can enter tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  7. Take out Mountain: Mountain makes only red. Put in Graven Cairns: Graven Cairns never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  8. Take out Swamp: Swamp makes only black. Put in Shadowblood Ridge: Shadowblood Ridge never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  9. Take out Island: Island makes only blue. Put in Steam Vents: Steam Vents never enters tapped and makes blue or red.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Extract Power: Extract Power is next on the report's cut list. Put in Vnwxt, Verbose Host: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Vnwxt, Verbose Host counts as card advantage.
  2. Take out Glorious Purpose: Glorious Purpose is next on the report's cut list. Works with 2 other cards: with 2 again and again. Put in Aether Syphon: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Aether Syphon counts as card advantage.

Upgrades at bracket 3

Up to three Game Changers, and no two-card infinite combo that costs 6 or less.

13 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 3.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.8 → 3.9 of 5, still connected. Its consistency is unchanged: Build stays at 4.6 of 5, on target; still 3 short on interaction, 1 short on card advantage, was 2. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Foreboding Ruins: Foreboding Ruins enters tapped. Put in Badlands: Badlands never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  2. Take out Frostboil Snarl: Frostboil Snarl enters tapped. Put in Cascade Bluffs: Cascade Bluffs never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  3. Take out Choked Estuary: Choked Estuary enters tapped. Put in Darkwater Catacombs: Darkwater Catacombs never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  4. Take out Dragonskull Summit: Dragonskull Summit can enter tapped. Put in Blood Crypt: Blood Crypt never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  5. Take out Sulfur Falls: Sulfur Falls can enter tapped. Put in Ferrous Lake: Ferrous Lake never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  6. Take out Drowned Catacomb: Drowned Catacomb can enter tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  7. Take out Mountain: Mountain makes only red. Put in Graven Cairns: Graven Cairns never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  8. Take out Swamp: Swamp makes only black. Put in Shadowblood Ridge: Shadowblood Ridge never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  9. Take out Island: Island makes only blue. Put in Steam Vents: Steam Vents never enters tapped and makes blue or red.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Progenitor's Icon: Progenitor's Icon is weaker ramp than Mox Diamond. Put in Mox Diamond: Mox Diamond is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Extract Power: Extract Power is next on the report's cut list. Put in Vnwxt, Verbose Host: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Vnwxt, Verbose Host counts as card advantage.
  2. Take out Glorious Purpose: Glorious Purpose is next on the report's cut list. Works with 2 other cards: with 2 again and again. Put in Aether Syphon: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Aether Syphon counts as card advantage.

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

16 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 4–5.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 3.8 → 3.9 of 5, still connected. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.6 → 4.7 of 5, still on target; 2 short on interaction, was 3, 1 short on card advantage, was 2. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Foreboding Ruins: Foreboding Ruins enters tapped. Put in Badlands: Badlands never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  2. Take out Frostboil Snarl: Frostboil Snarl enters tapped. Put in Cascade Bluffs: Cascade Bluffs never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  3. Take out Choked Estuary: Choked Estuary enters tapped. Put in Darkwater Catacombs: Darkwater Catacombs never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  4. Take out Dragonskull Summit: Dragonskull Summit can enter tapped. Put in Blood Crypt: Blood Crypt never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  5. Take out Sulfur Falls: Sulfur Falls can enter tapped. Put in Ferrous Lake: Ferrous Lake never enters tapped and makes blue or red.
  6. Take out Drowned Catacomb: Drowned Catacomb can enter tapped. Put in Morphic Pool: Morphic Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or black.
  7. Take out Mountain: Mountain makes only red. Put in Graven Cairns: Graven Cairns never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  8. Take out Swamp: Swamp makes only black. Put in Shadowblood Ridge: Shadowblood Ridge never enters tapped and makes black or red.
  9. Take out Island: Island makes only blue. Put in Steam Vents: Steam Vents never enters tapped and makes blue or red.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Progenitor's Icon: Progenitor's Icon is weaker ramp than Mox Diamond. Put in Mox Diamond: Mox Diamond is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Extract Power: Extract Power is next on the report's cut list. Put in Vnwxt, Verbose Host: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Vnwxt, Verbose Host counts as card advantage.
  2. Take out Glorious Purpose: Glorious Purpose is next on the report's cut list. Works with 2 other cards: with 2 again and again. Put in Aether Syphon: Card advantage: you were 2 short; Aether Syphon counts as card advantage.
  3. Take out Damocles Base, Sword of Kang: Damocles Base, Sword of Kang is weaker card draw than Rhystic Study. Put in Rhystic Study: Rhystic Study is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  4. Take out Kang Dynasty: Kang Dynasty is weaker card draw than The One Ring. Put in The One Ring: The One Ring is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Board wipes

  1. Take out Blasphemous Act: Blasphemous Act is weaker board wipe than Cyclonic Rift. Put in Cyclonic Rift: Cyclonic Rift is board wipe too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Opens a route: Windrider Wizard. 12 of its cards reach Containment Construct through it.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: interaction 9 of 12, card advantage 12 of 14.

The decklist

Creatures

Abomination, World Ravager · Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord · Batroc the Leaper · Chameleon, Master of Disguise · Containment Construct · Helmut Zemo, Mastermind · Iron Monger, Sadistic Tycoon · Kang Prime · Kang, Temporal Tyrant · Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper · Klaw, Master of Sound · Lady Loki, Agent of Chaos · Living Laser · Loki, the Deceiver · Madame Hydra · Molecule Man · Moonstone, Harsh Mistress · Prowler, Clawed Thief · Puppet Master, String Puller · Red Ghost, Intangible Genius · Spark Double · Stilt-Man, Towering Terror · Superior Foes of Spider-Man · The Frightful Four · The Squadron Sinister · Titan of Littjara · Titania, Proud Pummeler · Tombstone, Career Criminal · Tri-Sentinel, Act of Vengeance · Typhoid Mary, Fractured · Ultron, Unlimited

Instants and sorceries

Bedevil · Blasphemous Act · Chaos Warp · Endless Ranks of HYDRA · Extract Power · Kindred Dominance · Lethal Scheme · Night's Whisper · Syphon Mind · Terminate · Toxic Deluge · Vandalblast · Withering Torment

Artifacts and enchantments

Age of Ultron · Arcane Signet · Archnemesis · Black Market Connections · Currency Converter · Damocles Base, Sword of Kang · Doom's Time Platform · Glorious Purpose · Kang Dynasty · Loki's Scepter · Patchwork Banner · Progenitor's Icon · Propaganda · Skullclamp · Sol Ring · Swiftfoot Boots · Talisman of Dominance · Talisman of Indulgence

Lands

Canyon Slough · Choked Estuary · Coastal Peak · Command Tower · Crumbling Necropolis · Dragonskull Summit · Drowned Catacomb · Exotic Orchard · Fetid Pools · Foreboding Ruins · Frostboil Snarl · 4 Island · Luxury Suite · 5 Mountain · Path of Ancestry · Scavenger Grounds · Scorched Geyser · Secluded Courtyard · Smoldering Marsh · Sulfur Falls · Sunken Hollow · 6 Swamp · Terramorphic Expanse · Unclaimed Territory · Villainous Hideout

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