Magic Goes Big with Commander in 2020 - More Precons, Reprints, Commander Draft

Published 6 years, 4 months ago by (Updated 5 years, 4 months ago)

Wizards announced today that the Commander format in Magic is getting even more support next year!

  • More commander-focused products will be introduced next year.
  • With more products come with more abilities to reprint old and new cards to make the format more accessible.
  • They've learned plenty of new players have been introduced to the game through Commander and want to keep that up.
  • Commander decks will replace the Planeswalkers product in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and Zendikar Rising.

Product Launches

  • April 24 - Five decks will launch alongside the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set. They will contain 71 new cards not found in boosters.
  • 2020 Q4 - Two decks will launch alongside Zendikar Rising. Three new cards per deck with Brawl-like packaging.
  • Late 2020 - Commander Collection. Eight reprints per box for a single color, the reprints have new art! Available in non-foil and foil editions.
  • 2020 Q4 - Commander Legends is draft meets commander. 70 new Legends to build decks with. It also contains two new deck launches.

Commander Collection (CC1)

  • A collection of color-themed boxes containing 8 reprinted cards.
  • Available only at WPN stores with Premium stores receiving a premium edition containing foil cards.
  • "Its expansion code is CC1. Which certainly implies good things about the possibility of future ones, doesn't it?"
  • Releases sometime in late 2020.

Here are two pieces of alternate art Wizards showcased which are contained in the Green Commander Collection.

 

Commander Legends (CMR)

  • Draft meets Commander.
  • 70 new legend cards.
  • Card packs will contain 20 cards each, with a foil and two legendary creatures in each pack.
  • Cards can come from any point in time and may be legal in Eternal formats - Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
  • Larger than a normal set with lots of reprints.
  • No details on how draft will work until they are closer to release.
  • Two preconstructed decks will also launch alongside the set release, with each deck containing three cards not found in draft boosters.
  • Releases in Q4 (Oct, Nov, Dec) of 2020.

 

The Command Zone Talks Launches with Gavin Verhey

Magic: The Gathering Senior Game Designer and Product Architect Gavin Verhey sits down with Jimmy and Josh to announce and discuss an exciting list of new Commander-focused products that Wizards of the Coast is releasing next year.

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  • Magic huh? So when are we getting competitive Solitaire here?

    • what do you mean? this site is for digital CCG and Magic has been the paper grandaddy for decades and now it has a viable worthy digital version. Makes sense that out of cards covers it. I will do it more in the future. HS is just the popular one. It doesnt make it the better one now does it?

      • HS is the popular one at least until Runeterra drops in earnest. Haven’t had a chance to play, but the reviews were too good not to give it a legit go.

        • yeah i played Runeterra. sure is great and probably better than HS tho its way too early to jump on any conclusions but the fact is every card game now will have a rough time beating HS cause of how ppl refuse to give up on the game after years investing time and or money in it.

  • For the hearthstone players, commander is a format of magic.

    It has cards from all sets, decks are 100 cards (different than 60, which is the standart), they are singleton and in each deck there is one legendary, which is your "commander". You can cast your commander at any point in the game from anywhere. It costs 2 mana more for each time this game.

    Sorry for my english

    • Don’t be sorry my dude. That was very well explained. I had no idea what commander was at that point.

      • Thanks, it is my first comment here

  • So uh, for those of us that play hearthstone, it'd be great if articles like this provided information on "what this thing is". I have no clue what a Commander in MTG is, but would love to find out :)

    • I personally think this site should have rules overviews for the different games it covers, just an article on Magic, Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra once its out. Just to have a reference so the games can 'Cross-Pollinate' so to speak.

    • One important thing about MtG cards is that it has 5 different mana colours; red, blue, green, white and black. A card may not have any colour and is sometimes referred to as "grey" or "brown". In this case, you can use mana of any type to cast that card. However, the card's text may involve an activated ability that requires a colour that's not part of its casting cost. An example is Golos, Tireless Pilgrim; it costs 5 mana of any colour, but it's activated ability costs 2 mana of any colour plus 1 mana of all colours. A card's colour identity is all the mana colours required to activate all of a card's abilities.

      When building a deck for Commander, you choose a Legendary creature or Planeswalker (a type of card that sits there on the sidelines but has activated or passive abilities that can be triggered) to be your Commander. Legendary things work differently in MtG since they don't necessarily signify rarity, but rather it is a trait that only allows one of them to be in play at once. After your commander is chosen, you have to fill the rest of your deck with one-off copies of cards (normally in Magic you can have up to 4) that are within your commander's colour identity. In a game, your commander will be off to the side always available to you, from where you can play it any number of times. There can also be multiple players. Aside from that, the game is played as normal.

  • They have "brawl" which has just come to mtg-arena which is the first step, since it does have commanders.

     

    The whole more than 2 people playing at once they dont have yet, that will take a bit of work.

  • Can you play Commander in MTG Arena? I would play that.

    • The moment Commander is added to MTG Arena will be the moment Commander quadruples in popularity.

      I really want MTGA to support every format ever. I hope with time we get there =)

      • i mean not every format ever. im not seeing ppl want to play decks that beats u on turn 2 like the Demonic Tutor combo or something

  • I don't know what any of this is. Why does the vegetable have boobies? someone explain

  • I actually been playing Commander sorta sealed with my friends.

    Also Reprints are always nice.

     

  • YEEESSSSSSS

    Commander is my absolute favorite format in all of magic.  This is very exciting! :D