Commander deck analysis, without the jargon wall

What does your deck actually do?

Paste a 100-card Commander list. PAN will estimate its strength, identify the strongest strategic patterns it sees, explain how the deck plays, and show the clearest path it sees toward winning.

PanEDH.com 100-card Commander lists Uses public card data No account required

Paste your deck

Use a normal deck export. PAN handles quantities, set codes, foil markers, and most common annotations.

Simulation seed

One card per line works best. Example: 1 Sol Ring. If PAN finds more than one commander candidate, you can choose the correct commander before reviewing the result.

Your PAN report

Start with the answer. Open “Why this grade?” if you want the reasoning underneath it.

Your report will appear here.

PAN will summarize strength, strategic identity, game plan, play pattern, and the clearest win path it sees.

See the numbers behind this report

PAN Snapshot

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P — · A — · N —

P/A/N/PAN composite weights remain frozen. v0.9.35 fixes architectural outlet/closure classification and combo-family matching; no architectural output affects scoring yet.

PAN Rating—

Pressure—

Access—

Networking—

SOS Profile

Strained—

On Curve—

Saturated—

Diagnostics

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Recognized Cards

Unrecognized Cards

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What does PAN measure?

The grade is built from three complementary questions about how the deck functions.

PressureHow readily the deck turns cards and development into meaningful threats.

AccessHow consistently the deck can cast, develop, and reach the cards its plan needs.

NetworkingHow strongly the cards reinforce one another through real producer-to-payoff relationships.

PAN is an inference tool, not a rules engine or tournament authority. It describes the strongest patterns it sees in the submitted 100-card list and may interpret unusual decks differently than their builder does.

3. Cross-Archetype Player Report Validation Diagnostic only

Test the frozen player-facing report across unrelated archetypes. Review score believability, game-plan recognition, primary win recognition, and whether PAN's explanation would make sense to another Commander player.

Score believable · Game plan correct · Primary win correct · Explainable to another player

0 decks tested.

Deck	Archetype	PAN	Score	Plan	Win	Explain	Class	Expected win	Notes
No player-report validation captures yet.

4. PAN Calibration Suite Diagnostic only

Capture completed deck analyses without changing PAN scoring. Use this to build a reference distribution across jank, thematic, precon, casual, optimized, and cEDH decks and to spot compression, inflation, ceiling, floor, or archetype-specific outliers.

Deck label Reference band Archetype

Analyze a deck, then capture its result.

Deck	Band	Archetype	PAN	P	A	N	Early	Mid	Late	Curve

5. Cross-Archetype Architecture Validation Diagnostic only

v0.9.37 is a validation harness, not a new combo detector. Run unrelated decks through the frozen v0.9.36c architecture engine, record what PAN recognized, and compare the result with an explicit expected profile. No P/A/N/PAN score path is changed.

Validation case Deck label Expected loops Expected closure

Reviewer notes

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Analyze a deck, then capture its validation result.

Deck	Case	Result	Loops	Families	Closure	Core	Partner	Infra	Validated v0.9.35	PAN	Notes

6. PAN Card Interpretation

Scryfall supplies card facts; PAN interprets intrinsic card Pressure. v0.9.8 adds a deck-level Threat Urgency layer: immediate harm, ongoing/escalating harm, conversion toward victory, closure, and threat persistence. Persistence amplifies demonstrated threats; it does not manufacture Pressure by itself.

Card	Type	MV	PAN class	Output	Colors	TMV T1–T4	LTMV	P Body	P Keywords	P Rules	Combiner	Autonomy	Scope	Final Card P	Threat Channels	Confidence / note

7. PAN Strategic Fingerprint

Schema v1 combines trusted manual records with contextual Oracle-text inference. v0.9.41 adds Strategic Concentration Qualification for repeated creature types and keywords while preserving scoring. v0.9.40b separates primary terminal wins from supporting strategic packages. Win Narrative Consistency remains preserved: “How it wins” now uses the same already-recognized Competitive Architecture activation boundary as the game-plan and PAN’s Take layers. Analyzer logic, P/A/N/PAN scoring, architecture detection, Incremental Closure / Pinging recognition, and the v0.9.40 validation harness remain unchanged. The Requirement Compatibility Gate, Architectural Role Ownership, and causal-core recognition remain unchanged: confirmed loops distinguish causal Engine Core cards from necessary Loop Partners and interchangeable Infrastructure Contributors. Merely satisfying an engine requirement no longer makes a card an Engine. Theme participation remains a percentage of all 100 deck slots, and cards may participate in multiple themes.

Strategic Role Recognition Diagnostic only

Roles describe how recognized behavior contributes to deck architecture. Cards may occupy multiple roles. v0.9.37 preserves the frozen v0.9.36c architecture engine while assigning generalized roles to the smallest causally necessary set. Engine Core creates recursion; Loop Partner completes the cycle; Infrastructure Contributor supplies interchangeable resources without inheriting Engine/Conversion. The frozen v0.9.36c engine uses normalized Oracle/type accessors so cast-trigger engines own their causal core and only resources inside the reset domain qualify as infrastructure. Infrastructure-only mana development is not treated as strategic identity.

Card	Roles	Evidence

Generalized Combo Architecture Diagnostic only

v0.9.39 preserves the v0.9.36c compatibility proof, ownership model, causal-core recognition, and reset-domain recognition beneath the player-facing report. Engine Core cards create the recursive mechanism; Loop Partners are specifically required to close it; interchangeable mana or other resources are Infrastructure Contributors and do not become strategic Engines merely by being usable.

Gate	Combo Grammar	Pieces	Architectural Ownership	Generated State	Outlet / Closure	Confidence	Reasoning

Architectural Role Ownership Diagnostic only

Ownership is assigned to the smallest causally necessary set. Engine Core creates recursion; Loop Partner is specifically required; Infrastructure Contributor is interchangeable support; Closure Outlet converts the generated state into terminal progress.

Card	Architectural Role	Evidence

Multi-Card Architectural Interaction Diagnostic only

Recognizes when multiple individually non-terminal cards create a repeatable loop, an unbounded resource, or a closure route. v0.9.35 separates enablers from outlets: engine pieces may gain Conversion, but only a demonstrated game-ending outlet gains contextual Closure. Detection remains diagnostic-only.

Architecture	Pieces	Generated State	Outlet / Closure	Confidence

Card	Status	Actions	Produces	Requires	Rewards	Behavior	Themes

7. Threat Urgency + Temporal Pressure Architecture

v0.9.9.3 preserves Threat Urgency and adds draw-weighted Temporal Network Availability to the diagnostic pressure curve: How urgently does this need to be stopped?, If it is stopped, how likely is the problem to stay stopped?, and When one threat fires, how strongly does the network cause more threat to fire? Threat Persistence and Threat Propagation only amplify a demonstrated threat base.

Pressure Architecture Integration Audit Diagnostic only

Temporal Pressure Architecture Diagnostic only

7. Competitive Strategy Recognition

v0.9.4 preserves Competitive Architecture Networking and Competitive Pressure Architecture, then adds Competitive Access Architecture. v0.9.35 repairs the separate diagnostic multi-card architecture detector; it still does not feed Competitive Access/Pressure/Networking scoring.

8. Hapatra Calibration Card Data

This embedded dataset contains the Hapatra Balanced v2 calibration deck and remains available as a local fallback/cache when Scryfall is unavailable or a lookup fails.

Card	PAN mana type	Timing	Output	Colors