Wizards just announced that the Brawl Guildhall event will have no entry fee, it starts March 19th and ends April 16th. In addition, THB ranked drafts will be available in the same time frame in addition to their regular bi-weekly rotating Draft event. Original forum post here.

Seems like Wizards have heard its users as this has been a hot topic these last days over at the /r/MagicArena subreddit.

What to play?

The fun thing about Brawl and the Commander format is taking one of your favorite Legendaries or planeswalkers and building around them. The Deck Hub contains a lot of different decks from users where you can get inspiration for your own deck. We also have a metagame summary page of all the decks on the Meta Hub. In this article, we take a look at the 12 most popular Brawl Commanders right now and pick our favorite decklist.

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Here is the 12 most popular decks as of right now:

Enhancing all ETB triggers is a very strong strategy when there are so many good cards in the meta to use, Hydroid Krasis , Risen Reef , Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath all come to mind as very playable cards. We picked out this deck from devil666, which includes all the value cards available. Yarok, the Desecrated Meta Summary

Quite powerful for being a small fairy with a nice +1/+0 ability, you would think that she only boosts other fairies, but no, all flying creatures get this bonus. Take into account that she also create 1/1 fliers every time you cast one of your artifacts or enchantment spells, her game will really topple kingdoms. fireonice91 has one of the most popular Brawl decks right now featuring Alela. Alela, Artful Provocateur Meta Summary

The gods are quite hard to interact with, it does not help your opponent that Athreos slowly makes all your creatures hard to get rid of. Even exiling them does not help, combine that with some powerful ETB effects and you have a winner. Covertgoblue a popular content creator and streamer has built an awesome deck featuring this commander. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Meta Summary

If you like playing Rakdos sacrifice, Korvold is the Commander for you. Not only do you get to sacrifice any permanent on your board and not only creatures but you also get to replenish that permanent by drawing a new card. There are several newer decks to choose from but our favorite here is still RandallFlagg's deck. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King Meta Summary

Everyone's favorite villain is the 4th most played Brawl Commander, his superpower is having all other superpowers, how fitting. Nicol Bolas fits nicely in super friend decks, playing as many good planeswalkers as possible, quality over quantity is key. Content creator ThyrixSyx has Bolas as his go-to Commander on Wednesdays and with THB he upgraded it with some of the new cards. Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God Meta Summary

Instead of doubling Enter the battlefield triggers like Yarok, the Desecrated , Teysa does the opposite with doubling triggers when creatures die. The card pool selection is a bit smaller than for our most popular commander as not only are there fewer good cards to play with when it comes to this mechanic, Teysa also only has two colors instead of three like our ETB friend. That did not stop content creator magicblogtk from making an awesome deck though. Teysa Karlov Metagame Summary.

We cannot have a format without an aggressive mono-red deck and Torbran is your go-to guy in this case. In many cases, you will be able to put out enough early pressure that Torbran just acts as a threat rather than being played. User Sileno has a great build for us. Torbran, Thane of Red Fell Metagame Summary.

A five-color commander with a really unique ability that ones you to have as many different color pairs in your deck as possible. Prepare yourself for what might be the most expensive mana base for a commander deck, good thing only one copy of each card is allowed. The_Magician posted this popular Niv deck. Niv-Mizzet Reborn Metagame Summary

The man everyone loves to hate, classic UW control deck is what you can expect to find with this commander and LordSeliph has the deck for you to play. Teferi, Time Raveler Metagame Summary

Feather, the Redeemed is a very fun aggro commander to play, a lot of pump spells and combat tricks makes it easy to get blown out if you are not careful. But it is very consistent and explosive, in the right hands a very powerful deck. check out Aroty's decklist below. Feather, the Redeemed Metagame summary

Kiora is all about ramping out all the big sweet creatures. Remember that her ability says Untap target permanent and not target creature, meaning you can use her on your lands. The gameplan is quite simple and user Skullsbreaker52 has the deck to play. Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner metagame summary

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We finish off with another god, Thassa. These decks are also about using the ETB effect like to most popular Yarok, the Desecrated decks, however, now we are only restricted to one color. Which makes this a tad bit more popular than the top deck. nicola_andreini has built this nice deck for you to check out. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling Metagame summary