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Folks at my locals 90% of the time want to play bracket 3 so I'm looking to mix things up with some strategies I haven't explored. I feel that I have too many green stompy decks at this bracket. Every time I scroll edhrec I'll pick out a few that seem interesting but then stop myself once I realize I'm about to build more creature stompy decks. Here's a list of decks I play currently at bracket 3 tables:

Sliver overlord: realistically built as a janky b2, but I'm not going to play slivers against a precon.

Arixmethes: no game changers but sometimes just ramping into big bodies is enough to win.

Faramir Steward of Gondor: no game changers but it won 3 games in a row at b2 so I'm no longer playing it there. Sometimes drawing cards and making guys works when you have a good pillow fort.

Ygra: sac foods, swing with a big trampling cat. Has a few 3 card combos in case things aren't going well.

Jetmir: the standard token generating package. Often wins out of nowhere.

Hearthhull: this one's as optimized as I can make it for b3. Does the standard zuran orb/ splendid reclaimation thing. But half the time I take someone out with combat damage first. This one has been seeing less play because I'm not a huge fan of the play pattern.

I don't want to give too much detail out of respect for the pod, but tonight I encountered my first toxically salty player. Anytime someone would take a free attack against him, or play a removal spell or counter one of his spells he would say something like "I don't know why I keep getting targeted" or "I should just flip the table right now" then around turn 7 he would rage quit at instant speed and clear up his board. But what really confused me was that at this event with around 50 strangers instead of looking for a new table he would sit there grumbling things like "I hate this game. I hate this deck. F-ing counter spells should be banned." While we finished out the game making awkward glances. This continued for 3 full games. This wasn't an inexperienced player either. He openly agreed to play at bracket 3, had knowledge of niche cards, and openly allowed another player to bring out his Grand Arbiter stax deck knowing what that implied.

My view is commander is a 4 player battle Royale. As long as you attempt to play within the agreed upon bracket, any strategy that helps you win is allowed.

Apologies in advance. I'm sure posts like this pop up daily, I was just struck by seeing this kind of poor attitude for the first time.