Banned List for the Team Commander Format

Last update:      20.09.2024

General DEFAULT bannings are:

  • – No cards form the CATEGORIES „Ante“ or „Dexterity“ or „Conspiracy“ or „Bounty“ or „Planechase“ or „Archenemy“-type are allowed (listed here for better admission).
  • – No cards from the CATEGORY „Extra turns“ which grant extra turns or take over another player’s turn are allowed (listed here for better admission).
  • – No cards from the CATEGORY „UN-Sets“ (silver bordered cards from the „Un“-Expensions  (Unhinged, Unglued, Unstable, Unfinity) or Holiday cards) are allowed except basic lands and tokens. All cards with an Acorn security stamp are forbidden.
  • – No cards that were officially removed from the game (due to racism) are allowed (listed here).

Fast Mana:

 Mass Discard:

Oppressive cards:

Combo/Enabler:

Format Abuse:

The Untouchables – Officially Banned Cards in Commander:

We have sorted the banned cards within categories: this way, you can more easily access the long list: simply ask yourself: what does this card do? If it is a massdiscard or a land destruction or a fast mana source card you should be careful and look at the list. If it is not, you can shorten the search for a card being banned on the format abuse/oppressive cards/Combo cards categories. We also know that certain cards could fit in several categories while others may not fit in any category at all (or you’d disagree and put them in another category as we did), but we suppose you are clever and get used to the lists.

Also, due to our rules change of the modular „allow a certain category“-system, your playgroup can more easily adjust the rules to whatever playstyle you like!

Is there a Watchlist ? Actually: yes. Will we publish it ? Maybe. A Watchlist implies that the cards on the list are quite strong on the edge of being broken and abusively too strong in this format. Therefore players might be tempted to include these cards into their decks more often. By not publishing our watchlist we feel we preserve a better balance of the ongoing meta. But we might ask for your help/opinions/experiences.

Will we unban cards? Yes. If the meta or rules change or MtG further develops, we consider unbanning cards. We mention this, because in the past some guys were mad as we did unban a card and they sold it because it was on our list before, and they blamed us for loosing money. So: don’t sell cards you don’t like to sell – you can even keep cards because of your history and memories of them, because of the Artwork, or thereelse – and if you sold them, you don’t always need to rebuy them to have the strongest cards in your deck yet again – and last but not least: just don’t blame us. It is normal that cards get unbanned. The game evolves, the meta changes, and formerly too strong cards may be reconsidered and rerated.