Make real bracket opt-out (not just visual) and add granularity

The newly added feature to disable viewing brackets seems nice but seems to defeat the purpose of the suggestion. I’d like to disable the bracket feature on specific decks (or if that is too complicated I’d settle for an account setting), but if someone else’s deck has a bracket hiding that from us doesn’t make any sense. Currently this isn’t an opt-out of the system, it just hides it. I want to interact with the system if others intend their decks to be part of it, I just don’t want specific decks of mine to be part of it.

I’ll copy what I wrote in Moxfield chat —

I think this is a fair ask. Whether a deck has a bracket identified or not ought to be a case by case basis for the deck. The bracket system is for some people to use with some decks if and when they want to for those decks. The brackets article basically says, if you’ve got a steady playgroup you may not really need this, and it’s one of several possible systems people could in theory use, right? Brackets are just what you may want to use when you feel like you want to communicate that information about your deck in an environment where that communication comes in handy.

This deck here? I made it this week, put thought into it, and aimed it specifically at bracket 3.

This deck over here though? I haven’t put any thought whatsoever into what bracket it’s for and I don’t want to label it with a bracket. It’s been a year since I’ve picked it up, I don’t even quite remember how it plays, don’t ask me to confirm a bracket or estimate one, I have no idea what’s correct for it yet. Brackets are me communicating to you what I think a deck is going to do and what kind of decks it ought to get matched with, and I have not yet made a decision about this deck to communicate that information and I don’t want it made for me.

This other deck over here? This is made for my playgroup. We’re not using brackets.

This other deck is made for my other playgroup. We’re using game changers, MLD, tutors, and other stuff, but we’re not using the bracket system, we’re doing something different.

This other deck is still a work in progress. I’m working on the deck and i’ll figure out what bracket it’s for later. I’m not yet ready to tell people what level it’s operating at, and being told what level it’s operating at isn’t helpful and might be misleading.

I should be able to work with those scenarios without saying “I do not want to have brackets, ever.” It’s not that I don’t want to see brackets, it’s that I am not ready to, or not going to, apply that concept to any of these decks.

It’s like if you required me to have aggro, control, or midrange, or combo, for my deck. Or timmy, jenny, or spike. I don’t know yet, I’m still figuring it out, or that just doesn’t really apply here, please don’t pick one out for me.

I think allowing me to choose whether or not to identify a deck with a bracket is more consistent with the bracket system than no-opt-out, as well. Brackets are here as a “here if you want it” tool. A rollout of brackets was a great way to raise awareness about the system, but opting every deck in with no way to opt a deck out of it isn’t in the spirit of what the bracket system was designed for.

And like, there’s an option to switch it off entirely. But functionally, the choice that gives people is an ultimatum: either I must design with the bracket system in mind for every deck or else have nonsense attached to my decks, or I’m not allowed to use brackets at all. That’s not in the spirit of what the bracket system is for. That doesn’t let me choose when to use it.