![]() ![]() We were happy with it and obvious possible changes had a lot of downsides. The current system worked fine and was elegant. ![]() It's not that any of us objected, it's that none of us felt all that strongly about it. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event.Ĭommander death triggers are a subject that came up over the years, but didn't get much traction. If a commander would be put into its owner's hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead. If a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that card was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone. The long version (including how we got there and the technical details) is below.įirst, new rules (specifically, a new state-based action): If a commander has an ability which triggers on it dying or going to exile, it will trigger before heading to the command zone. Context: Wizards banned Lurrus of the Dream-Den in Vintage, so without this clarification it would have been banned by default in Vintage.Īs you may have heard on the CommandFest charity stream, we're changing how commanders go to the command zone, effective with the quarterly Commander announcement for Core Set 2021. We normally reserve changes for the regular schedule we felt as though the clarification here warranted providing an update out-of-cycle update. We'll have our normally-scheduled update in the next cycle, currently slated for 22 June. We've clarified the legality language a bit, but none of the descriptions result in specific cards being banned or unbanned. The exact same cards remain legal (specifically, Lurrus of the Dream-Den is not banned). The upshot is that between yesterday and today, nothing has changed for us. ![]() We've long been proponents that Commander isn't alt-Vintage, so it makes sense given the two formats' divergence to decouple the wording. We've eliminated the line "Commander is played with Vintage-legal cards." While the idea has been a useful shortcut for years, it wasn't really a philosophical foundation, it was merely a convenience. You may have noticed there's a small line missing from banned list page today. ![]()
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