Part 2

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS JUST A FICTIONAL „What if…?“ INTELLECTUAL GAME –

NOT a real Change of Rules for Teamcommander !!!!

A) Rules Changes for Teamplay.

Sometimes, cards feel like they were designed for a „free for all“ playgroup. If you played thousands of games in a teamplay environment, you get to know that certain mechanisms get out of balance by playing such cards. The Teamcommander-Rules therefore has a long banlist to avoid such balance problems. On the other hand, if rules and some card texts would be changed, then the necessity of such immense bannings would cease to exist.

Comprehensive Rules 805.8 – Shared team turns option.

If an effect gives a player an extra turn or adds a phase or step to that player’s turn, that player’s team takes the extra turn, phase, or step. If an effect causes a player to skip a step, phase, or turn, that player’s team does so. If a single effect causes more than one player on the same team to add or skip the same step, phase, or turn, that team adds or skips only that step, phase, or turn. If an effect causes a player to control another player, the first player controls the affected player’s team.

This rule makes cards like Time Warp too efficient – each player in the team untaps mana, draws cards, can attack an additional time and so on for a mana cost that in a teamgame is just unbalanced. We would recommend to change this.

If an effect gives a player an extra turn or step just this player takes the extra turn or step, the other players of the team don’t take the extra turn or step. If an effect grants an additional combat phase, all players of the team may participate at this additional phase (Remember though, that in most cases, creatures of other players remain tapped from the first combat phase unless they have vigilance). If an effect causes a player to skip a step, phase, or turn, that player’ does so, the other players in the team take the normal turn sequence and play the step, phase or turn uneffected. If a single effect causes one player to add or skip the same step, phase, or turn several times, just that player adds or skips only that step, phase, or turn that many times. If an effect causes a player to control another player, the first player controls just the affected player. The other players of the team are uneffacted by the effects. The player controlling the other players turn goes first in the sequence of the team’s turn.

• Cards like Damia, Sage of Stone or Dragon Appeasement, which were unplayable in a Teambased format, are now playable again as they were intended.
• Cards which grant extra turns or take over turns are in line with the mana cost and effeciency what they do again. Commanders which are based on extra turns like Narset are then playable in Teamcommander.
• The additional combat phases are still strong, and exploit the team format a bit, but yet you need vigilance to profit from the additional phase as a teammate, so it is still in a balance.