Event Description

Commander is the most popular Magic the Gathering format at the store and several pods play on Monday and Friday evenings.

Typical decks are casual so if you do bring a highly competitive deck bring a more casual spare as well. Often players will have decks to loan out!

Commander is an exciting, unique way to play Magic that is all about awesome legendary creatures, big plays, and battling your friends in epic multiplayer games! In Commander, each player chooses a legendary creature as the commander of their deck. They then play with a 99-card deck that contains only cards of their commander’s colors. Also, other than basic lands, each deck can only use one copy of any card. During the game, you can cast your commander multiple times, meaning your favorite Legendary Creature can come back again and again to lead the charge as you battle for victory!

If you’re playing a game of Commander with three or more people, you play against each other in a free-for-all multiplayer format.

Each player starts with 40 life, places their commander face-up in their command zone, and draws a hand of seven cards. Players are seated randomly in a circle and turns progress one player at a time in clockwise order around the table.

During gameplay, a player may choose to attack any other player, regardless of their position on the table, and can also choose to attack multiple different players during their attack phase. Permanents, spells, and abilities can also target any player around the table (as long as they don’t explicitly say they must be used on “you”).

Your goal is to crush every other player, using strategy, skill, and the cards at your disposal. The last player left standing in each game wins!

For more details and the current banned list visit:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/content/commander-format