That vision is to create variable, interactive, and epic multiplayer games where memories are made, to foster the social nature of the format, and to underscore that competition is not the format’s primary goal. The banned list for Commander is designed not to balance competitive play but to help shape in the minds of its fans the vision held by its founders and Rules Committee. Commander Official Banned List and Philosophy
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As a commander, it ‘s license to start again. Getting it into exile as a creature is the end of it. It remains banned as a commander because the mechanics of being a commander allow it to circumvent the best method of dealing with it—the aforementioned graveyard hate. However, in the intervening time, graveyard hate has become stronger and the overall level of creature power has risen to the point where we’re comfortable—more so after some testing—that it won’t have the same impact. Its presence had a similar warping effect on the format in the early days, with too many decks reusing the Dragon over and over (even if it didn’t start in their deck!). It’s appropriate that Kokusho comes off at the same time as Prime Time goes on, as Kokusho was originally banned along the same lines. But its ubiquity and effect on games couldn’t be ignored and sad though we are to see it go, we think it will make for a more interesting and diverse format. Primeval Titan is dripping with awesomeness, and we ourselves are big fans of the card. This decision won’t be universally popular. With that in mind, we’re banning the most egregious offender, Primeval Titan. While we think ramp should be good—this is battlecruiser Magic, after all—it’s probably a little too prevalent and needs reining in a bit. One of the concerns that we’ve had recently is the overrepresentation of heavy ramp strategies, to the point where it makes up a large proportion of the aggregate decks out there. Since outside of this one quirk there aren’t a lot of interesting applications to the card, we don’t anticipate it’ll be missed much. While the card itself isn’t overpowered, it does have unfortunate interactions with the format, namely that the commander is available to be cast even after the spell has resolved, and our philosophy is to avoid cards like that. Kokusho, the Evening Star Banned As Commander Read the original announcement from the Duel Commander website.You’re going to skip over whatever clever intro I write anyway, so I’ll just tell you that we’re going to talk about three things today: the updated banned list and format philosophy document, the changes to the banned list, and the Rules Committee’s process for deciding on banned cards.
The next rules announcement for the format is set July 25. Serra’s Sanctum joins the ranks of Gaea’s Cradle and Tolarian Academy as cards that simply produce too much mana by tapping. Ragavan is getting banned due to it being one of the best plays on Turn 1 and still being a relevant play late in the game. Secondly, the availability of the card in paper makes it an easy card to remove from the format. Firstly, it finally found a commander that pushed it over the edge in Rielle, the Everwise. Bazaar of Baghdad got the axe for two reasons. Players can still use the Legendary Vehicle as part of their deck. Shorikai is only banned as a Commander, due to the difficulty to interact with it in a competitive format without sideboards. Duel Commander is a variant of Commander, sculpted for 1v1 play. Going forward, Shorikai, Genesis Engine, Bazaar of Baghdad, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, and Serra’s Sanctum are banned in Duel Commander.
The Duel Commander rules committee banned four cards in the May 30 rules announcement.
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