Grand Larceny

Bracket 2

OTC — Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander · 2024-04-19

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor · Color identity: BGU

Bracket

Power Level

4.7/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

No hard floors (no Game Changers, no two-card infinite combo, no mass land destruction) — verdict from optimization score 28/75 (3 tutors, 9 interaction, 7 card draw)
Engine accuracy reference: 100% bracket-in-range across 36 validation decks (engine beats Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku on bracket-exact).

How it compares

Against the 4 Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander decks we analyzed, this is 2nd strongest — power 4.7 versus a set average of 4.4. That is about average for the library (4.7 across 64 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander decks

Most Wanted — Bracket 2, power 4.8
Desert Bloom — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Quick Draw — Bracket 2, power 4.0

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Avengers Assemble — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Hail, Caesar — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Squirreled Away — Bracket 2, power 4.7
Witherbloom Pestilence — Bracket 2, power 4.7
The Fantastic Four — Bracket 2, power 4.8

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Mind Stone Ramp $0.34
Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $0.34
Cultivate Ramp $0.35
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.33
Beast Within Interaction $0.47
Counterspell Interaction $3.77

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $7.60

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
1 Felix Five-Boots
1 Thieving Skydiver
1 Sage of the Beyond
1 Ghostly Pilferer
1 Diluvian Primordial
1 Stolen Goods
1 Curse of the Swine
1 Dazzling Sphinx
1 Arcane Heist
1 Smirking Spelljacker
1 Mind's Dilation
1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
1 Predators' Hour
1 Brainstealer Dragon
1 Cunning Rhetoric
1 Thieving Amalgam
1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
1 Thieving Varmint
1 Heartless Conscription
1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
1 Baleful Mastery
1 Ohran Frostfang
1 Savvy Trader
1 Tower Winder
1 Cazur, Ruthless Stalker
1 Silent-Blade Oni
1 Hostage Taker
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Fallen Shinobi
1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
1 Siphon Insight
1 Extract Brain
1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
1 Baleful Strix
1 Culling Ritual
1 Thief of Sanity
1 Villainous Wealth
1 The Mimeoplasm
1 Plasm Capture
1 Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
1 Bladegriff Prototype
1 Chaos Wand
1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
1 Oblivion Sower
1 Overflowing Basin
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Temple of Malady
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Fetid Pools
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Viridescent Bog
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Underground River
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Flooded Grove
1 Twilight Mire
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Slither Blade
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Triton Shorestalker
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Silhana Ledgewalker
1 Rampant Growth
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Void Attendant
1 Three Visits
1 Putrefy
1 Trygon Predator
1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
1 Arcane Signet
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Sol Ring
1 Command Tower
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Access Tunnel
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Opulent Palace
3 Island
2 Island
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Forest

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/GrandLarceny_OTC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-02.