Elenda suffers from the same frustrations, but once we get to Core Set 2021, Elenda will spit out a pile of Vampires, making her a great commander to equip and enchant as well as a fantastic piece of wrath insurance. A while back, I wrote a whole article about Roalesk and worked really hard to create clones of Roalesk that would die to the legend rule. Other than those, I’m particularly excited about Elenda, the Dusk Rose and Roalesk, Apex Hybrid. Kokusho, which used to be banned, will be recast from the command zone ad infinitum with the help of cards like Cabal Coffers and Black Market and is likely to show up as a commander much more. Child of Alara was already a force due to being a 5-color commander that provides a repeatable wrath effect, and now that players won’t have to do extra work to recur it, it’s all the more fearsome. In the announcement, the RC calls out both Child of Alara and Kokusho, the Evening Star as potentially much more powerful due to this change, and it’s not hard to see why. Here’s a list of the commanders that are affected in some manner: Obviously, almost any commander with a dies trigger changes a little bit. It also means we can put fresh eyes on some commanders (and some non-commander cards) that change because of this. This has some exciting consequences and opens up cool design space for commanders in the future because, well, now legendary creatures with dies triggers are a lot stronger. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event.”įunctionally, this means that instead of replacing the trip to the graveyard or exile with a trip to the command zone, our commanders will die or get exiled, go very, very briefly to the appropriate zone, and then go to the command zone from there. 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 new state-based action that helps accomplish this rules change is worded as follows: (again, quoting from the announcement) (For more info, check out Rule 704 in the Comprehensive Rules.) An action is taken based on a particular state. When a condition exists in the game that requires something to change within the game, a state-based action is usually doing the work to make that change happen. They govern when and how creatures with lethal damage die, players with 0 life or less lose, tokens not on the battlefield cease to exist, and so on. For those unfamiliar with rules jargon, state-based actions are the rules that keep everything moving behind the scenes in games of Magic. This was accomplished by adding a state-based action specifically for Commander. “If a commander has an ability which triggers on it dying or going to exile, it will trigger before heading to the command zone.” If you’re interested in the minutia, please take the time to read the full announcement about this change on the Commander RC’s website here.įor those looking for the quick answer, here’s a quote from the announcement that gives you the really important information. They gave us a heads up about a change that is coming with the quarterly announcement for Core Set 2021, and it’s a spicy one. If you weren’t watching the CommandFest Online stream, you missed something important – me talking about Commander live! Just kidding, the actual important thing you missed was the announcement from the Commander RC.
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