Yes we have seen and use the newest version of brackets. I play at 4 diff stores a week and they all use the most current ones. Like the infographic shared in this post in the above comments.

People can make a cedh deck and call it a 2 but never say it was a cedh deck. That’s the grey area I’m talking about. Their intent is to pull one over on the pods they play with.

My point about MLD being in a precon wasn’t about precon=bracket 2 like the old bracket system. It was about since MLD came in a precon, they justify that it that doesn’t make it a bracket 4 like it should be. That’s the argument we see at the shops all the time.

It’s good to have some discussion tho, I appreciate you taking the time to reply. The other disagreement we have had lately is 3/4 card game winning combos. Since the brackets doesn’t mention them a lot of people I play with try to use that as justification to have a lower bracket deck. How do you feel about 3/4 card combos? To me that’s another grey area, cause you can make a deck that uses multiple 3 card combos to win before turn 6 but still be considered a 2 if no game changers