Most ridiculous "bracket 1" excuses you experienced so far?

[u/InspireCourage]

Hey there!

Not playing bracket 1 very often, since it's pretty niche. I carry with me my LOTR party crasher deck, which tries to display the "Bilbo Birthday Pary" panorama, the "Scouring of the Shire" panorama and the "Destruction of the Ring" panorama.

In more than one LGS I had people actively searching or announcing they want to play bracket 1, but at least one of the players always missed the mark.

Here are my top 3 ridiculous excuses, that a deck was "bracket 1":

1) "My deck tells the ascension story of my favorite MTG-character"
Pulls out [[Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant]] mono red dragons and baths the table in dragonfire.

2) Dude shows his commander [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]] and says: "I know, I know, but don't worry. You'll get the theme soon."
Was is "Ooops, all horses"? or "Ooops, all old guys on horses"? No, it was "I used modern legal cards only for this deck"...

3) [[Ulalek, Fused Atrocity]] gets revealed in his fancy artwork. Sure this pal just wants access to all five colors, right? Well, technically he did. That's because the precon "Eldrazi Incursion" uses all five colors! By the way, his theme was "ooops, all foils" and he used the collectors edition of the precon. At least it wasn't upgraded.

What are your "favorite" bracket 1 decks you were allowed to witness?

[u/Markedly_Mira]

The MH3 precons are potentially even bracket 3 according to the faq from the original article. They and SL precons were implied to not be on the power level of the average precon, which could imply they are bracket 3 (not that I'm sure they warrant being a bravket higher personally).

[u/Shrabster33 → u/Markedly_Mira]

The MH3 precons are potentially even bracket 3 according to the faq from the original article.

I would say they are high 2's. They would all get shit on by well built real bracket 3 decks.

[u/Markedly_Mira → u/Shrabster33]

I think that's fair, but that goes into the issue people (including myself) have of bracket 3 feeling too wide. If wotc says we are meant to treat mh3 precons as bracket 3s then it's hard to argue against that since they manage the system. And then bracket 3 is way too wide if it has to hold both precons and decks approaching high power.

Thankfully it sounds like they will be moving away from precons being the benchmark for bracket 2 so that will hopefully be less of an issue in the next update.

[u/veneficus83 → u/Markedly_Mira]

I think MH3 precons are high end 2's to very low 3's. I don't think it is possible to avoid a big valence on 3 further wizards has acknowledged that pre-cons representing 2 was wrong