How many lands should a Commander deck run?
Popular Commander decks on Moxfield run a median of 36 lands at brackets 1 and 2, 35 at bracket 3, 33 at bracket 4 and 28 in cEDH, across 18,414 public decks. Bracket 5 is cEDH.
Outside cEDH, half of the decks run 33 to 36 lands. In our solo playtest of 10,794 decks, those with 36 or 37 lands missed a land drop by turn 4 in 23% of games, and those with 32 or 33 lands missed one in 29%.
Counted on , from decks collected in July and November 2026. We counted them with the same code EDHTuner runs on your deck, and each deck counts under the bracket Moxfield lists for it.
How many lands does each bracket run?
Each cell shows the median first. The range after it covers the middle half of decks, so a quarter of decks run less than the range and a quarter run more.
| Lands | Lands with spell-land backs | Decks with a spell-land back | Average mana value | Decks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackets 1-2 | 36 (34-37) | 36 (35-38) | 32% | 3.18 (2.86-3.52) | 4,822 |
| Bracket 3 | 35 (33-36) | 36 (35-37) | 47% | 3.14 (2.84-3.50) | 6,057 |
| Bracket 4 | 33 (30-35) | 34 (30-36) | 43% | 2.80 (2.32-3.23) | 4,715 |
| Bracket 5 (cEDH) | 28 (26-29) | 28 (27-30) | 39% | 2.10 (1.92-2.32) | 2,758 |
| All decks | 34 (31-36) | 35 (32-37) | 41% | 2.97 (2.48-3.38) | 18,414 |
Some spells have a land on the back face, and you can play them as either side. The second column counts those as lands too. 32% of bracket 1-2 decks run at least one, and so do 47% of bracket 3 decks, 43% of bracket 4 decks and 39% of cEDH decks.
How many lands do cEDH decks run?
cEDH decks run a median of 28 lands, and the middle half run 26 to 29. Counting spell-land backs, the median is 28. The median cEDH deck has an average mana value of 2.10, the lowest of any bracket.
Does a lower mana curve mean fewer lands?
Inside each bracket, we split the decks by the average mana value of their nonland cards. Each cell is the median land count, with the number of decks after it. A cell with fewer than 30 decks is left empty.
| Average mana value | Under 2.5 | 2.5-3.0 | 3.0-3.5 | 3.5 and up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackets 1-2 | 35 (345 decks) | 36 (1,326 decks) | 36 (1,868 decks) | 37 (1,281 decks) |
| Bracket 3 | 34 (477 decks) | 35 (1,771 decks) | 35 (2,273 decks) | 36 (1,535 decks) |
| Bracket 4 | 29 (1,569 decks) | 34 (1,329 decks) | 34 (1,099 decks) | 35 (718 decks) |
| Bracket 5 (cEDH) | 28 (2,323 decks) | 28 (319 decks) | 28 (56 decks) | 31 (59 decks) |
Bracket 4 decks with an average mana value under 2.5 run a median of 29 lands, across 1,569 decks (33% of bracket 4). Bracket 4 decks at 3.0 and up run 35, across 1,817 decks. Inside brackets 1, 2 and 3, the medians in the table run from 34 to 37 lands.
Do decks with more ramp run fewer lands?
Inside each bracket, we split the decks by how many ramp cards they run. Each cell is the median land count, with the number of decks after it. A cell with fewer than 30 decks is left empty.
| Ramp cards | Under 8 | 8-10 | 11-13 | 14 and up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackets 1-2 | 36 (1,064 decks) | 36 (1,600 decks) | 36 (1,073 decks) | 36 (1,085 decks) |
| Bracket 3 | 35 (1,174 decks) | 35 (1,978 decks) | 35 (1,435 decks) | 35 (1,470 decks) |
| Bracket 4 | 34 (687 decks) | 33 (1,424 decks) | 32 (1,193 decks) | 33 (1,411 decks) |
| Bracket 5 (cEDH) | 29 (186 decks) | 28 (684 decks) | 27 (938 decks) | 28 (950 decks) |
In brackets 1, 2 and 3, decks with more ramp run as many lands as decks with less. In every column, bracket 1-2 decks run a median of 36 lands and bracket 3 decks run 35. At bracket 4 the medians run from 32 to 34 lands, and in cEDH they run from 27 to 29.
Do decks with more colors run more lands?
Outside cEDH, one-color decks run a median of 35 lands, and decks with four or five colors run 35. These rows leave out the cEDH decks, which run a median of 28 lands.
| Colors | Lands | Decks |
|---|---|---|
| Colorless | 36 (34-38) | 195 |
| One color | 35 (33-36) | 3,133 |
| Two colors | 35 (33-36) | 6,237 |
| Three colors | 35 (33-37) | 4,934 |
| Four or five colors | 35 (33-37) | 1,157 |
How many lands do landfall decks run?
EDHTuner finds a landfall theme in 1,257 of the decks. Outside cEDH, those 1,149 decks run a median of 37 lands, against 35 across all 15,656 decks outside cEDH.
What happens when a deck runs fewer lands?
We played each of 10,794 decks 1,500 times on its own and counted the games that missed a land drop in the first four turns. The fewer lands a deck runs, the more often that happens.
| Lands | Games that miss a land drop by turn 4 | Miss two or more | Decks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 or fewer | 39% | 12% | 3,209 |
| 32-33 | 29% | 7% | 886 |
| 34-35 | 26% | 6% | 1,999 |
| 36-37 | 23% | 5% | 3,026 |
| 38-39 | 20% | 4% | 1,193 |
| 40 or more | 16% | 3% | 481 |
These games have no opponents, so they show how often the land drops come and nothing about winning. cEDH decks run few lands on purpose and make up for it with cheap fast mana.
We also ran EDHTuner's land test on 906 of these decks on October 23, 2026. It kept the count for 73% of them, told 19% to add lands and 2% to cut some. For 4%, better spells helped about as much as more lands, and for the last 2% the test could not reach the count our land formula suggests.
What these numbers count
Lands are cards whose front face is a land. A modal double-faced spell with a land on its back counts as a spell in the first column and as a land in the second. A card that transforms into a land counts as a spell in both, because you can't play its land side from your hand.
Average mana value is the average across the deck's nonland cards, every copy counted, with the commander left out.
Ramp is anything that makes extra mana or puts extra lands into play, like Sol Ring, mana creatures and land searches. Cost reducers count too when the deck has spells they discount.
Bracket means the bracket Moxfield lists for each deck. Brackets 1 and 2 share a row because bracket 1 holds only 80 of the decks.
Landfall is a theme EDHTuner reads from the rules text on a deck's cards, the same way it reads yours.
The decks are popular public decks on Moxfield, most of them among its most-viewed, so they lean toward tuned builds more than the average kitchen-table deck does.
Find your own deck's number
Paste your deck into EDHTuner and it plays the deck at its own land count and at a few other counts on identical shuffles, then gives its verdict on your land count. These are solo games with no opponents. The deck numbers page shows ramp, card advantage and removal by bracket too.
More numbers from these decks
- What bracket 1 and 2 decks run
- What bracket 3 decks run
- What bracket 4 decks run
- What cEDH decks run
- Bringing a deck down to bracket 3
- Commander deck numbers by bracket
The bracket checker names the lowest bracket your own deck fits.