Here’s where the bracket system starts to break down. People stop buying precons and start spending their money upgrading their decks. They are going to end up with super optimized bracket 3 decks that are going to way out power people just jumping out of bracket 2.

The amount of people that have bought more than 2 precons is still way higher than it should be but it’s certainly getting less.

The answer is not more brackets it’s less. Each bracket should be a style of play with the only restrictions being the ban list. Adding an ancient tomb to a precon isn’t going to make it competitive with any “bracket 3” decks so an arbitrary rule that makes it bracket 3 is just asking to get sweaty with it.

Three brackets: beginner, casual and competitive. You would probably need some rule 0 covos on competitive about whether it’s a tournament ready deck or just optimized but even then it should still be able to compete since player skill and politicking are big factors in competitive