The Magic Bracket is a public vote-driven single-elimination contest. We started with 16,343 Magic cards and are now down to the Top 128!

I’ve been using a simple strength ranking statistic to approximate the power of the remaining cards. It was right on Round 7 winners about 86% of the time, and will be used to seed the Top 128. If you have the time you could theoretically figure out the pairings from this listing.

If you want to see the methodology and the actual current strength rankings see this spreadsheet. The cards themselves are:

The Top 8:

1. Lightning Bolt

2. Birds of Paradise

3. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

4. Wrath of God

5. Ancestral Recall

6. Snapcaster Mage

7. Dark Confidant

8. Force of Will

The Top 16:

9. Counterspell

10. Time Walk

11. Crucible of Worlds

12. Cryptic Command

13. Swords to Plowshares

14. Jace, the Mind Sculptor

15. Liliana of the Veil

16. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

The Top 32:

17. Griselbrand

18. Thoughtseize

19. Path to Exile

20. Eternal Witness

21. Brainstorm

22. Mulldrifter

23. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

24. Wheel of Fortune

25. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

26. Blood Moon

27. Black Lotus

28. Deathrite Shaman

29. Fact or Fiction

30. Gaea’s Cradle

31. Llanowar Elves

32. Mother of Runes

The Top 64:

33. Primeval Titan

34. Demonic Tutor

35. Necropotence

36. Baleful Strix

37. Sakura-Tribe Elder

38. Sol Ring

39. Yawgmoth’s Will

40. Sword of Fire and Ice

41. Rancor

42. Meddling Mage

43. Tolarian Academy

44. Supreme Verdict

45. Aether Vial

46. Karn Liberated

47. Tarmogoyf

48. Stoneforge Mystic

49. Wurmcoil Engine

50. Mindslaver

51. Natural Order

52. Isochron Scepter

53. Vindicate

54. Serra Angel

55. Fireball

56. Bitterblossom

57. Skullclamp

58. Geist of Saint Traft

59. Terminate

60. Umezawa’s Jitte

61. Gush

62. Library of Alexandria

63. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

64. Platinum Angel

The Top 128:

65. Birthing Pod

66. Tooth and Nail

67. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

68. Green Sun’s Zenith

69. Young Pyromancer

70. Show and Tell

71. Doran, the Siege Tower

72. Doomsday

73. Cruel Ultimatum

74. Tinker

75. The Gitrog Monster

76. Time Spiral

77. Elspeth, Sun’s Champion

78. Cabal Therapy

79. Mox Sapphire

80. Survival of the Fittest

81. Knight of the Reliquary

82. Mox Ruby

83. Oracle of Mul Daya

84. Island

85. Sphinx’s Revelation

86. Grave Titan

87. Balance

88. Bloodbraid Elf

89. Kitchen Finks

90. Nevinyrral’s Disk

91. Faithless Looting

92. Shivan Dragon

93. Monastery Mentor

94. Phyrexian Obliterator

95. Deranged Hermit

96. Life from the Loam

97. Oblivion Ring

98. Rampant Growth

99. Omniscience

100. Entomb

101. Karakas

102. Kolaghan’s Command

103. Treachery

104. Sun Titan

105. Nicol Bolas

106. Gilded Lotus

107. Animate Dead

108. Dack Fayden

109. Cavern of Souls

110. Ensnaring Bridge

111. Fastbond

112. Mox Emerald

113. Death’s Shadow

114. Captain Sisay

115. Mana Vault

116. Stasis

117. Spellskite

118. Mountain

119. Grizzly Bears

120. Sheoldred, Whispering One

121. Through the Breach

122. Forest

123. Leyline of Sanctity

124. Ashnod’s Altar

125. Jace Beleren

126. Golgari Grave-Troll

127. Sphere of Resistance

128. Force Spike

