What 661,997 Commander decks cost and play like, August 2026

We hold 751,061 Commander decks. 661,997 of them are fully legal lists, and those are the ones measured here, exactly as they stood on August 4, 2026. These decks were built, tuned and rated before they reached us, so the sample leans toward optimized lists rather than kitchen-table piles. It is what our library looks like, not a census of the format.

The statistics page carries the living version of these numbers and refreshes weekly. This post is the August snapshot, kept for comparison when the numbers drift.

The median deck costs $416

Half of the library costs more than $416. A quarter comes in under $185, a quarter over $896, and 22.4% of all decks cost more than $1,000. Genuinely cheap decks are rare in a corpus this tuned. Only 2.8% stay under $50.

The single biggest price bucket is $100 to $250, holding 23% of everything. If you want to see what that money buys, decks under $100 is a two-click search.

Power 8 costs ten times power 4

The median power 4 deck costs $198. The median power 8 deck costs $1,999. That curve is smooth the whole way up, $347 at power 5, $569 at 6, $855 at 7, and then it leaves the atmosphere at $5,926 for power 9.

Power 4 is also where the format lives. It is the single most common rating at 16% of all decks, and the median deck sits at 5.75.

Price follows the bracket

WotC brackets tell the same story from the other side.

Bracket	Median power	Median price
1 Exhibition	4.5	$163
2 Core	5.0	$194
3 Upgraded	5.8	$458
4 Optimized	6.5	$782
5 cEDH	8.6	$4,237

Bracket 3 is the biggest group at 229,806 decks. The jump from bracket 4 to cEDH multiplies the median price by more than five.

Combos are a dial, not a debate

32.2% of decks below power 5 run at least one detected combo. At power 5 to 7 it is 58.7%, at 7 to 9 it is 87.5%, and at 9 and up it is 99.7% with a median of seven combos per deck. "No combos at this table" is a low-power table norm, not a rule of the format.

Four colors are rarer than five

Exactly three colors is the most common identity width at 37.3% of decks, with two colors right behind at 35.3%. Five-color decks make up 7.1% of the library. Four-color decks are the true oddballs at 2.4%, a third as common as running everything.

The single most played identity is five-color, led by The Ur-Dragon and its kind, followed by Grixis at 5.4% and Esper at 5.2%. The most played single color is black at 4.7%.

Y'shtola runs the table right now

The most built commander in the library is Y'shtola, Night's Blessed at 6,338 decks, with Edgar Markov at 4,716, The Ur-Dragon at 3,937, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice at 3,756 and Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow at 3,590. Our scraping weights recent decks, so this list leans toward what people are building now, and right now that is the Final Fantasy crossover reshaping the top of the meta.

Across the whole library, 4,106 different commanders lead at least one deck, drawing on 32,881 distinct cards.

Salt stays mild, mostly

The median deck scores 3.54 on CommanderSalt's salt scale, and 95% of decks stay under 7.5. The long tail is real though. 7,351 decks score a full 10, and someone is having a wonderful evening behind every one of them.

What actually changes as power rises

Median basic lands fall from 20 per deck below power 5 to 2 per deck at power 9 and up. Tutors climb from 1 to 10. Ramp only moves from 11 to 13, spot removal from 7 to 8, and cantrips barely move at all. High-power Commander is not a different card-type mix so much as the same skeleton on a vastly more expensive mana base with far more consistency stapled on.

All of these numbers move as the library grows. The statistics page is where they live, and the deck search is where you can pull any slice of them apart yourself.