![]() Generally speaking, commanders with powerful death triggers actually want to go to the graveyard in most cases so you can recur them to your hand or Reanimate them back to the battlefield and avoid paying the ever-increasing command tax.įor example, repeatedly recurring and recasting Kokusho with Phyrexian Reclamation is far more mana-efficient than recasting it from the command zone, because Kokusho costs an additional 2 mana for each time you've previously cast it from the command zone (commander tax). This makes these commanders more powerful, but it's not actually a huge power boost. All these commanders now trigger their death triggers when you choose to put them into your command zone instead of keeping them in your graveyard. Now it works the way people expect it to work.ĭue to this change, some cards get better and a few even get worse.įirst off, a couple commanders benefit from this change, specifically, commanders that have powerful death triggers: Elenda, the Dusk Rose has the most hype (and has seen the highest price spike), but other common names that pop up are Child of Alara, Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Roalesk, Apex Hybrid. People expected that if Elenda, the Dusk Rose is your commander and is sacrificed or destroyed then its death trigger would happen even if you put Elenda back into the command zone, but that wasn't the way it worked before. The reason for this change was to make commanders with death triggers function the way people expected them to. With the new rule, however, Elenda momentarily goes to the graveyard before going to your command zone, so the death trigger occurs. With the previous rules, Elenda would go directly to your command zone and Elenda's death trigger wouldn't occur. With the new rules, however, the commander now actually goes to the graveyard or exile zone before going to the command zone, so triggered abilities that care about creatures dying or going to the exile zone now happen.įor example, let's say your commander, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, is on the battlefield and the opponent destroys it with Murder and you decide to put Elenda back into your command zone. Because the commander would go straight to the command zone from the battlefield, stuff like death triggers wouldn't occur since the game term "dying" refers specifically to a creature going to the graveyard from the battlefield. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event.īasically what used to happen is if a commander would leave the battlefield and go to any other zone, its owner may put it into the command zone instead as a replacement effect. If a commander would be put into its owner’s hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead. If a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that card was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone. ![]() If a commander has an ability which triggers on it dying or going to exile, it will trigger before heading to the command zone.Īnd the full version of the change is this: Toby Elliott wrote the official article announcing the new change, including why and how they made the change, which I highly recommend reading, but I'll quickly summarize it and then focus on the implications to the format: Over the weekend the Commander Rules Committee announced a rules change on how commanders go to the command zone.
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