Official Banlist Updates – what we have overseen
Last time we informed you that WotC has banished seven cards from existence as they depict racism. You can read the article here.
What we have overseen or forgotten to inform you about:
There were other changes to the official free for all Commander formats.
In former times equipping your commander with a Skullclamp didn’t make sense. Now, it does. Simply put: Your commander can die like a normal creature, and after being put into the graveyard (and after all triggeres trigger) you may put it into the Command Zone.
We highly appriciate this change. Yeah !
Based upon history, the Commander format based on the vintage Ban List (also known as type 1). The official free for all Commander format rules committee just now changed it, and banned all oversized cards, all ante, subgame and conspiracy cards (as we also already did !!!) and now they banned all cards which don’t have a black or white border. While we think they mean with this „all un-Set cards and thelike“ the notification is a bit vague – players love to play borderless cards or full-Art cards for example, which also don’t have a black or white border.
We didn’t comment this by now: but, when building a Magic the Gathering Deck, we presumed normal common sense: we didn’t expect someone to shuffle an oversized card into his Magic Deck, nor a Pokemon card, nor a card like a Conspiracy which doesn’t even have a casting cost. So, when building a deck, use regular Magic cards, please 🙂
Team Commander Decks can of course contain also cards which are borderless, full-Art cards and thelike – not just black or whitebordered cards, BUT the card should exist as a printed version as a black or whitebortdered card, too.
Have Fun and Good Games ! – The Teamcommander-Team