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Bracket 5 · competitive Commander

cEDH bracket 5.

Four competitive lists, every win line written out, and the table talk each one needs.

// What Bracket 5 is

No restrictions, and a standard of behavior.

Bracket 5 is cEDH. Its official deck building rule is a single sentence: there are no restrictions other than the banned list. Nothing here is capped, nothing is budgeted, and no page in this section shows a Game Changer count, because Bracket 5 does not restrict Game Changers and a stale number is worse than none.

Bracket 5 is the only bracket whose official description names tableside behavior as part of the format. The Commander Brackets Beta calls for "special care and attention paid to behavior and tableside negotiation (such as not making spite plays or concessions)." That language is from the Introducing Commander Brackets Beta article, 11 February 2025, which is where the bracket definitions live. The 9 February 2026 update is the most recent brackets announcement but carries no bracket-by-bracket descriptions. Play accordingly.

That is why every deck in this section carries a table talk section alongside its play guide. At this power level the negotiation is part of the game, not decoration around it.

// 4 Bracket 5 decks

The lists.

Blue Farm and Kraum & Tymna are not the same deck. They run the same two partner commanders and share 70 of their 100 cards, commanders included, so they look like duplicates in a list. They are not. Blue Farm holds everything up, wins the stack war, and kills on somebody else's end step. Kraum & Tymna takes a turn, generates ten or more mana, and puts the game away before anyone untaps. Thirty cards differ each way and they are the thirty that decide which one you want.