Sword-Point Diplomacy is as close as I can get, which is the whole point of what Maro posted, there's not many of them.

Auras and Equipment will phase out with the creature they're attached to. That could be a useful trick to gain an advantage.

Also, there's over 300 spirits in black and white. More than you can fit in a single deck.

The brackets are not meant to split all commander decks in 5 equally large groups, right?

Of course bracket 3 is going to be bigger than the other brackets combined. Most decks could trade blows fine. Dispersion of decks over the brackets will more likely be a bell curve, the further you stray from the middle, the fewer fair opponents you're going to find.

It's not a deckbuilding tool. You build your decks without considering the brackets, and then lay over the template in an attempt to avoid disappointment for mismatched decks that might cost you hours of your life you don't enjoy.

If you know your "technically a two" can hang with fours, then that's what you open the conversation with. If you build the "technically a two" just to stomp on real two decks, you're the problem Wizards is trying to solve with this '^^

I forgot about Weather the Storm too, until it basically 6- for-1'd me when I got greedy and tried to Lava Spike+Skewer the Critics+Lightning Bolt+... Fireblast for exactly lethal all on my turn ('^^).

In your deckbuilder, there's a link to Formatting help, you can search that for "custom categories" for a clear explanation, for that and all other ways to use anything with text formatting on the website.

Oh yeah, I play Pauper regularly. Both Weather the Storm and Feed the Clan are the bane of my burn deck.

Feed the Clan has been played in sideboards forever, for the reasons wallisface specified.

Your examples are not punishment, they're cruel choices. It's not "i get this good thing unless you get a bad thing", it's "you get one bad thing or another bad thing".

A black punisher card would be Temporal Extortion which we shouldn't count for color philosophy purposes, because it's from Time Spiral block.

Removal like Path to Exile, Winds of Abandon and Settle the Wreckage give your opponents lands, so you have something to catch up to.