What 737,905 commander decks look like
These are aggregate numbers across every legal commander deck deckdiver indexes, from casual to cEDH, old cards and new. It is what our database looks like, not a census of the format.
Data as of September 13, 2026 · refreshed weekly
What decks cost
The median deck costs $429.
Half of these decks cost more than $429. 23% cost over $1,000 and 3% come in under $50.
These decks were built, tuned and run through a rating engine before they were uploaded, so the sample leans toward optimized lists rather than kitchen-table ones.
Price by power level
A power 8 deck costs about 10× what a power 4 deck costs.
A power 8 deck runs a median $2,042. A power 4 deck runs $205, so power 8 costs about 10 times as much.
The thinnest power bands, each under five thousand decks, are left off so a handful of decks do not distort the medians.
Power and brackets
Power 4 is the single most common rating, at 16.1% of decks.
Power ratings come from the rating engine in half-point steps on the 1 to 10 commander power level scale, EDH power level if you prefer. The histogram shows the deck count in each step as measured, unsmoothed.
WotC brackets
Median power and price for each WotC bracket, from casual at bracket 1 up to cEDH at bracket 5.
| Bracket | Decks | Median power | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Exhibition | 163,762 | 4.5 | $171 |
| 2 · Core | 76,997 | 4.9 | $193 |
| 3 · Upgraded | 259,503 | 5.8 | $475 |
| 4 · Optimized | 182,976 | 6.5 | $798 |
| 5 · cEDH | 54,667 | 8.6 | $4,343 |
What decks are made of
Median counts per deck, across four power bands.
Across the four power bands ramp runs 11, 12, 14, 13, spot removal 7, 8, 8, 8, tutors 1, 2, 6, 10 and basic lands 20, 16, 9, 2. A card the deck does not run is counted as zero.
Ramp
Spot removal
Board wipes
Tutors
Cantrips
Recursion
Basic lands
Combos
99.7% of decks at 9+ power run at least one detected combo.
The share of decks with at least one detected combo runs 31.9%, 58.5%, 87.6%, 99.7% across the four power bands, and the median combo count per deck runs 0, 1, 5, 7.
Colours
2.43% of decks run exactly four colours.
7.08% run all five. The single most common identity in the whole corpus is five-colour BGRUW at 7.08%.
Top colour identities
- {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}7.1% · 52,223
- {U}{B}{R}5.4% · 39,818
- {W}{U}{B}5.1% · 37,628
- {B}4.6% · 33,873
- {B}{G}4.5% · 32,959
- {W}{B}{R}4.4% · 32,502
- {W}{R}{G}4.2% · 31,230
- {U}{B}4.2% · 31,162
- {B}{R}3.9% · 28,851
- {U}{R}3.7% · 27,115
Most played commanders
7,242 decks run Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, the most-played commander here.
The order leans recent. The most-run commander here is Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, ahead of Edgar Markov and The Ur-Dragon. Recent scraping weights recent decks, so this leans toward what has been added lately rather than an all-time count.
| # | Commander | Decks | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Y'shtola, Night's Blessed | 7,242 | 0.98% |
| 2 |  Edgar Markov | 5,098 | 0.69% |
| 3 |  The Ur-Dragon | 4,356 | 0.59% |
| 4 |  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice | 4,174 | 0.57% |
| 5 |  Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin | 3,946 | 0.53% |
| 6 |  Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow | 3,876 | 0.53% |
| 7 |  Kaalia of the Vast | 3,726 | 0.50% |
| 8 |  Fire Lord Azula | 3,682 | 0.50% |
| 9 |  Krenko, Mob Boss | 3,674 | 0.50% |
| 10 |  Vivi Ornitier | 3,610 | 0.49% |
| 11 |  Pantlaza, Sun-Favored | 3,522 | 0.48% |
| 12 |  Ms. Bumbleflower | 3,454 | 0.47% |
| 13 |  Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER | 3,434 | 0.47% |
| 14 |  Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel | 3,387 | 0.46% |
| 15 |  The Wise Mothman | 3,360 | 0.46% |
| 16 |  Lathril, Blade of the Elves | 3,295 | 0.45% |
| 17 |  Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls | 3,123 | 0.42% |
| 18 |  Giada, Font of Hope | 3,078 | 0.42% |
| 19 |  Toph, the First Metalbender | 3,071 | 0.42% |
| 20 |  Nekusar, the Mindrazer | 3,049 | 0.41% |
Salt
The median deck scores 3.5 on CommanderSalt's salt scale.
The salt metric measures how much a card annoys the table.