{"id":21,"date":"2019-11-29T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2019-12-29T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:41:08","slug":"rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Philosophy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Before reading the rules below, please read the philosophy of commander<\/a>; simply following the rules is not sufficient to ensure a good play experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deck Construction Rules<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  1. Players choose a legendary creature as the “Commander” for their deck. <\/li>
  2. A card’s color identity<\/em> is its color plus the color of any mana symbols in the card’s rules text. A card’s color identity is established before the game begins, and cannot be changed by game effects. <\/li>
  3. A Commander deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the Commander.<\/li>
  4. With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same English name. Some cards (e.g. Relentless Rats<\/a>) may have rules text that overrides this restriction.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Play Rules<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    1. Players begin the game with 40 life.<\/li>
    2. Commanders begin the game in the Command Zone. While a Commander is in the command zone, it may be cast, subject to the normal timing restrictions for casting creatures. Its owner must pay [mana]2[\/mana] for each time it was previously cast from the command zone; this is an additional cost.<\/li>
    3. If a Commander would be put into a library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, its owner may choose to move it to the command zone instead.<\/li>
    4. Being a Commander is not a characteristic [MTG CR109.3], it is a property of the card and tied directly to the physical card. As such, “Commander-ness” cannot be copied or overwritten by continuous effects. The card retains it’s commander-ness through any status changes, and is still a commander even when controlled by another player.<\/li>
    5. If a player has been dealt 21 points of combat damage<\/strong> by a particular Commander during the game, that player loses a game. <\/li>
    6. Commanders are<\/strong> subject to the Legend rule; a player cannot control more than one legend with the same name.<\/li>
    7. Abilities which bring card(s) you own from outside the game into the game (such as Living Wish<\/a>; Spawnsire of Ulamog<\/a>; Karn, the Great Creator<\/a>) do not function in Commander.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Philosophy Before reading the rules below, please read the philosophy of commander; simply following the rules is not sufficient to ensure a good play experience. Deck Construction Rules Players choose a legendary creature as the “Commander” for their deck.  A card’s color identity is its color plus the color of any mana symbols in the … Continue reading Commander Rules<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}