![]() You crack open a booster and there it is, a legendary creature that gets your gears turning. This happens when the inspiration for an EDH deck is a legendary creature itself. Sometimes it's the first choice you make. Okay, sometimes choosing a commander isn't a tough choice. Maybe your inspiration comes from the media? You watched the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and you want to recreate her Scooby-gang in a commander deck?īut then it's time to make the most important decision in EDH, who will bring your inspiration to life in the command zone? Read on to learn how to make this tough choice. This deck eventually became the inspiration for my Animar commander deck, read here. This led to the creation of my blue-white legacy golem deck, centered around Golem Artisan. When I started playing, I learned that WotC created creature cards based on mythologies from around the world. Perhaps you're like me and you will see a creature type from your heritage that is ignored by other media but is well supported here so you decide to make a tribal deck. Or perhaps you're all about lore? You latch onto a character made by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and you set out to retell their story through a deck. For me, that was Velomachus Lorehold (to see how that turned out, read this ). Your gears start turning as you look for ways to maximize the card's synergies. Perhaps you pay close attention to a set's spoiler season? A new card is announced and you can't stop thinking about it. I'm fine with them being legal but I wouldn't care if they weren't legal.When you create a commander deck, it's an expression of inspiration. Therefore these cards do break the rules and it forces the RC to either change the rules or piss off WotC which they don't want to ever do because they have already sold out to WotC.ĮDIT: I would also be ok with cards like that being banned in EDH because they break the singleton rule. WotC doesn't make the rules for EDH, the rules committee does. It's one of the reasons why brawl is so different than EDH (the other two being 1v1 and 60 card decks)įinally those cards aren't about breaking the rules because WotC designs the cards AND the format that they are played. Changing what is allowed to be in the command zone changes the format. These cards also do not go into the command zone. These cards were meant to break the rules in other formats and not specifically commander. So since these cards were made a while ago they weren't made with commander in mind because WotC didn't really support commander yet. Those cards are built for other formats and have been around for a while (take away seven dwarves but that was mostly made for flavor reasons and not format specific reasons). Mdfcs can only be your commander if the front face is a legendary creature.Ī couple differences with cards like that. Hellkite courser, that steals from the command zone, would bring in the front face only and give it haste even if the front was an equipment.Įdit: it was a mistake. But if there is one, it would make for some weird interactions. So far there are no MDFCs legends that are not creatures on front. And that's frankly bizarre considering these cards are meant to be the front face in every zone except stack or battlefield. Mostly obvious, command tax applies to the card itself, and you can cast either side from the command zone.īut oddly Sheldon says that even a MDFC that is a noncreature on the front, and legendary creature on the back is still a legal commander. If both faces are creatures, both faces will deal commander damage in combat. For example, if you cast Valki, God of Lies and it then dies, casting Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor will cost 7BR and recasting Valki will cost 3B. Command tax is applicable to the card itself, regardless of which face you cast. You may cast either face from the command zone. ![]() ![]() If a Modal Double-Faced card has a legendary creature on one face, the card can be your commander. If a Modal Double-Faced card has a legendary creature on its front face, the card can be your commander. Edit: in case anyone missed it, the correct ruling has been updated ![]()
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