The most original Commander precons
Every preconstructed Commander deck, ranked by how unusual its cards are. Not how strong, not how expensive, and not how popular: how little the rest of Magic looks like it. A card scores high here when nothing else in the game does what it does.
What most original means here, and what it doesn't
Every card scores 0 to 1: one minus how close its nearest match anywhere in Magic gets, so 0.30 means something out there is 70% like it. A deck's figure is the average across its most original half of nonland cards, so it climbs by holding cards with less competition, never by holding more cards. On the board below that runs from 0.244 at the top to 0.133 at the bottom.
On the newest decks this is still settling. A new deck reads as more original than it will look in five years, and that is half real: design space fills up, so a card printed today has had nobody to copy it yet.
It is not measuring how good or how expensive a deck is. Against the decks' median EDHREC rank the correlation is r = -0.05, which is nothing. Original and popular turn out to be unrelated, and both are on this board as separate rankings for exactly that reason.
It is partly measuring how recent a deck is (r = +0.46 against release year). Some of that is real: design space fills up, so a card from 2011 has had fifteen years of imitators, and being imitated is the opposite of being unique. The ranking still separates decks inside a single era, which is what the era buttons are for.
Read from the top HALF of each deck's nonland cards, a share of each deck rather than a fixed number, so a deck holding 53 nonland cards and one holding 66 are judged on the same slice of themselves. Half rather than a third because a third of a commander deck is mostly the mana base's neighbours and the staples every deck brings, and reading deeper than half only pulls every deck toward the same middle.
67 decks, most original first. Collector's editions are folded into the deck they reprint. 13 published inside the last year are hidden, because their salt, price and play rate are all still settling.
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10.244
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20.236
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30.232
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40.227
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50.226
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60.222
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70.218
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80.213
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90.210
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100.209
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110.206
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120.203
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130.203
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140.199
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150.198
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160.198
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170.198
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180.197
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190.197
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200.196
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210.196
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220.195
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230.195
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240.193
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250.193
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260.191
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270.190
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280.190
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290.188
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300.188
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310.187
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320.183
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330.182
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340.182
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350.181
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360.180
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370.180
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380.180
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390.179
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400.178
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410.178
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420.178
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430.177
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440.176
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450.176
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460.176
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470.176
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480.174
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490.173
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500.172
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510.172
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520.171
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530.170
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540.169
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550.169
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560.166
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570.159
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580.159
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590.156
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600.154
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610.149
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620.148
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630.138
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640.136
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650.134
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660.133
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670.133