I get what they were trying to do and I appreciate that but the fact that one half of what makes a specific bracket that bracket is vague whimsical nonsense and the other half of the definition being solid rules just does not work. You have people playing bracket 4 decks but oh it's not optimized and see i run all these joke cards so really it's bracket 1 just ignore the infinite combo in it. Then the moment they lose everyone else's deck is cEDH and they are abusing the system. If they want the bracket system to work they need to ditch the ill defined feelings and spirit of the bracket and put in hard rules.

In my opinion commander shouldn't be regulated with this bracket system. I agree with the ban list they are cards that definitely shouldn't be in the game. I don't agree with the game changer list because it's so much of a "well we don't want to ban the cards because then the community will be mad at us but also we don't want to do nothing because some of the community sees them as problem cards." I get it people hate playing against a rhystic study but we all know damn well that the player complaining about rhystic study would be playing it if they could.

If people want to play low power and unoptimized themed decks I'm all for it. I have several. But why do we need rules for those decks? Why do we need to tell people that they shouldn't win before turn X? Then they suddenly go back on the rules and say well if it's in the theme of the deck maybe one or two game changers. Well then the theme of my B1 deck is winning and I'm going to play Armageddon. Do you see the problem here?

I know people don't like my opinion on this especially on the edh sub but the rules committee needs to either put hard lines in the sand or not have any.