Originally posted by WolfGuy77
When it gets fixed, can we please get an official list of which Commanders are considered high tier and will be matched against each other? Because before the last update broke the matchmaking, I found myself constantly being paired against Golos, Esika and Niv decks when using some of my Commanders like [[Nethroi, Apex of Death]] and [[Teysa Karlov]], who absolutely should not be considered to be anywhere near the power level of 5 color goodstuff piles like Golos. Also can we maybe look into a ban list update? Cards like Field of the Dead, Paradox Engine, Ugin and Agent of Treachery completely ruin the fun of the format. Field and Ugin are too much of a generic "do nothing and win" power cards that gets tossed in every deck because why not, they're colorless hard to beat bombs. It always feels so bad and frustrating when you build a board then your opponent just slams an Ugin and exiles everything.
Your commander is a large part of the matchmaking formula, but it is not the only factor. The contents of your 99, for instance, are also indicators of how you are approaching Brawl as a game mode, and our goal is to find you someone with a similar approach. It's very possible to play against someone with a more powerful commander but a less powerful deck. There are even other factors also at play, as well, so you will and should get a variety of experiences (when the system is operational).
I won't go into full details about who is pointed where. That path leads to a lot of negative behaviors: players optimizing for the system rather than for their own enjoyment, debating the fairness of rankings based on single data points, "bug" reports when one of the many factors alluded to above leads to an "out of tier" match-up, and so on.
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