Magic the Gathering: Commander Decks

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How to Play Commander

The Commander format is for 4 players per game, and each deck consists of 99 cards + 1 Commander. The duration of the game should be about 20 min. per player.

Commander is about choosing your hero and building your deck around them. It is a relaxed multiplayer format. Players can only have one of each card in their deck, except for basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.

Color Identity
A card's color identity can come from any part of the card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Each card in your Commander deck can only use mana symbols that also appear on your Commander. Colorless cards are also allowed.

Command Zone
This is where your Commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player places their Commander face up in the Command Zone. A Commander can be cast from the Command Zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each time it has been cast from the Command Zone in this game. If your Commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard, or exile from any place, you can return it to your Command Zone instead.

Commander Damage
A player who has been dealt 21 or more damage by the same Commander during the game loses the game. The Commander is tracked across zones for this purpose (for example, if a player takes control of another player's Commander, any damage that the Commander has already dealt still counts).

Free-for-All
If you are playing a Commander game with three or more people, you play against each other in a free-for-all multiplayer format.

Each player starts with 40 life, places their Commander face up in their Command Zone, and draws a hand of seven cards. Players sit randomly in a circle and turns go one player at a time clockwise around the table.

During gameplay, a player may choose to attack any other player, regardless of their position on the table, and can also choose to attack multiple different players during their attack phase. Permanents, spells, and abilities can also target any player around the table (as long as they do not explicitly state they must be used on "you").

Regardless of the outcome, Commander gives players the tools to express themselves through strategy, skills, and a lot of fun with deckbuilding.