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Quantum Quandrix

Commander precon · Commander 2021 · 2021 · led by Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Main theme: Fractal tokens · Synergy 3.8/5 (connected) · Bracket 1–2 · Adrix and Nev, Twincasters works with 32 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.

4 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. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  2. Take out Temple of Mystery: Temple of Mystery enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

Interaction

  1. Take out Biomass Mutation: Biomass Mutation is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Deekah, Fractal Theorist and Geometric Nexus. Put in Volo, Itinerant Scholar: Interaction: you were 2 short; Volo, Itinerant Scholar counts as interaction.
  2. Take out Kaseto, Orochi Archmage: Kaseto, Orochi Archmage is next on the report's cut list. Works with 3 other cards: with 1 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Eldrazi Confluence: Interaction: you were 2 short; Eldrazi Confluence counts as interaction.

Upgrades at bracket 3

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

6 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. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  2. Take out Temple of Mystery: Temple of Mystery enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

Ramp

  1. Take out Simic Signet: Simic Signet is weaker ramp than Mana Vault. Put in Mana Vault: Mana Vault is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Return of the Wildspeaker: Return of the Wildspeaker 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.

Interaction

  1. Take out Biomass Mutation: Biomass Mutation is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Deekah, Fractal Theorist and Geometric Nexus. Put in Volo, Itinerant Scholar: Interaction: you were 2 short; Volo, Itinerant Scholar counts as interaction.
  2. Take out Kaseto, Orochi Archmage: Kaseto, Orochi Archmage is next on the report's cut list. Works with 3 other cards: with 1 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Eldrazi Confluence: Interaction: you were 2 short; Eldrazi Confluence counts as interaction.

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

7 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. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.8 → 5.0 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Simic Growth Chamber: Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped. Put in Breeding Pool: Breeding Pool never enters tapped and makes blue or green.
  2. Take out Temple of Mystery: Temple of Mystery enters tapped. Put in Flooded Grove: Flooded Grove never enters tapped and makes blue or green.

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.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Return of the Wildspeaker: Return of the Wildspeaker 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.

Interaction

  1. Take out Biomass Mutation: Biomass Mutation is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Deekah, Fractal Theorist and Geometric Nexus. Put in Volo, Itinerant Scholar: Interaction: you were 2 short; Volo, Itinerant Scholar counts as interaction.
  2. Take out Kaseto, Orochi Archmage: Kaseto, Orochi Archmage is next on the report's cut list. Works with 3 other cards: with 1 again and again, with 2 just once or in the background. Put in Eldrazi Confluence: Interaction: you were 2 short; Eldrazi Confluence counts as interaction.

Board wipes

  1. Take out Perplexing Test: Perplexing Test 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: Boxing Ring. 12 of its cards reach Idol of Oblivion through it.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: interaction 10 of 12.

The decklist

Creatures

Arashi, the Sky Asunder · Biomathematician · Champion of Wits · Coiling Oracle · Crafty Cutpurse · Curiosity Crafter · Deekah, Fractal Theorist · Desolation Twin · Esix, Fractal Bloom · Forgotten Ancient · Guardian Augmenter · Hornet Nest · Hornet Queen · Hydra Broodmaster · Incubation Druid · Kaseto, Orochi Archmage · Kazandu Tuskcaller · Managorger Hydra · Master Biomancer · Plaxcaster Frogling · Quandrix Cultivator · Rampaging Baloths · Reef Worm · Ruxa, Patient Professor · Spawning Kraken · Terastodon · Trygon Predator · Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Planeswalkers

Garruk, Primal Hunter

Instants and sorceries

Beast Within · Biomass Mutation · Commander's Insight · Curse of the Swine · Eureka Moment · Ezuri's Predation · Golden Ratio · Incubation // Incongruity · Kodama's Reach · Krosan Grip · Nissa's Expedition · Oversimplify · Perplexing Test · Rampant Growth · Rapid Hybridization · Replication Technique · Return of the Wildspeaker · Rite of Replication · Shamanic Revelation · Spitting Image · Theoretical Duplication

Artifacts and enchantments

Arcane Signet · Fractal Harness · Geometric Nexus · Idol of Oblivion · Paradox Zone · Primal Empathy · Sequence Engine · Simic Signet · Sol Ring

Lands

Blighted Woodland · Command Tower · Exotic Orchard · 11 Forest · 10 Island · Llanowar Reborn · Lonely Sandbar · Lumbering Falls · Mosswort Bridge · Myriad Landscape · Novijen, Heart of Progress · Opal Palace · Oran-Rief, the Vastwood · Quandrix Campus · Rogue's Passage · Simic Growth Chamber · Study Hall · Temple of Mystery · Temple of the False God · Tranquil Thicket · Yavimaya Coast

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