Commander Rubric

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Rate your deck using the following rubric, based on card quality and synergy.

Half grades are also allowed.

When finished, divide the total of all categories by two to get a power level out of ten.

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Mana Generation

1: Does your deck run lands that enter tapped and offer little extra value such as:

Myriad Landscape, or Forsaken Sanctuary?

Does your Deck run inefficient mana rocks like:

Boros Keyrune, Charcoal Diamond, or Dreamstone Hedron?

2: Does your deck run utility tap lands such as:

Temple of Silence, Izzet Boilerworks, or Scoured Barrens?

Does your deck run cheaper mana rocks that help you color fix and ramp like:

Orzhov Signet or Commander's Sphere?

3: Does your deck run some Fetch and Shock Lands, some triomes, or lands that offer multiple colors with little downside such as:

Morphic Pool or Darkbore Pathway?

Does your deck run mana rocks that are efficient cost wise, or a low number of 0 cost mana rocks like:

Chromatic Lantern, Fellwar Stone, and Lotus Petal?

4: Does your deck run maximum efficiency lands and mana rocks, with little to no inefficient lands and/or mana rocks, using cards such as:

Bayou, Scalding Tarn, Chrome Mox, Jeweled Lotus?

Win Condition

1: Does your deck not have a win con besides combat damage, or does it win with spells like Overrun?

2: Does your deck win by turn 8+, and has a win condition such as Triumph of the Horde, Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo, or through means such as commander damage?

3: Does your deck win by turn 4+, and has multiple win cons such as Craterhoof Behemoth, Laboratory Maniac combo, or through combos like sacrifice loops?

4: Could your deck potentially win turn 1+, have multiple lines/combos that win you the game, have maximum efficiency infinite loops, and can win on the stack?

Interaction

1: Does your deck have sorcery speed, high mana cost (4-5+) removal? Or potentially little to no interaction? For Example:

Grisly Spectacle or Eviscerate

2: Does your deck run a good amount of sorcery speed removal and some high mana cost counterspells? For Example:

Impale or Rewind

3: Does your deck run a good amount of instant speed removal and counterspells at a low cost? Do you have some stax pieces? For Example:

Counterspell, Rule of Law, or Pongify

4: Does your deck run a high amount of free or maximum efficiency interaction at instant speed, as well as, or alongside efficient stax pieces? For example:

Grand Abolisher, Swords to Plowshares, or Force of Will

Support

1: Does your deck have no tutors, inefficient ramp spells, and almost no card draw, such as:
Divination or Grow from the Ashes?

2: Does your deck have some card draw, ramp, and a low amount of high mana cost tutors such as:
Fact or Fiction, Diabolic Tutor, and Phyrexian Arena?

3: Does your deck run a decent amount of good card draw, ramp, as well as some tutors such as: Windfall, Grim Tutor, and Esper Sentinel

4: Does your deck run a high amount of maximum efficiency card draw, ramp, and tutors such as: Vampiric Tutor, Rhystic Study and Dockside Extortionist?

Commander

1: Does your commander do very little, or contribute a small amount beyond color identity, for example: Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, or Talrand, Sky Summoner?

2: Does your commander do little besides support a tribe, offer low efficiency value, and is easy to pilot, for example:
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave, Arcades, the Strategist, and Ayula, Queen Among Bears?

3: Does your commander enable or “turn on” your deck, offer a good amount of consistent value, and is a threat to the board, for example:
Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Niv-Mizzet Parun, and Kess, Dissident Mage?

4: Does your commander offer a maximum efficiency, top tier value engine or combo piece, and requires a primer or intricate game knowledge to pilot well, for example:
Kenrith, Returned King, The Gitrog Monster, and Urza, Lord High Artificer?