Commander 2019

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Commander 2019
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description A shield parted per bend
Design Ethan Fleischer (lead[1])
Glenn Jones
Jeremy Logue
Noah Millrod
Development Glenn Jones (lead)
Bryan Hawley
Scott Larabee
Max McCall
David McDarby
Chris Mooney
Ken Nagle
Mike Turian
Gerritt Turner
Andrew Veen
Art direction Taylor Ingvarsson
Bree Heiss
Release date August 23, 2019
Keywords/​ability words populate, flashback, morph, madness.
Set size Four 100-card decks
Expansion code C19[3]
Commander series
[[Commander 2018]] '''Commander 2019''' N/A
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
[[Core Set 2020]] Commander 2019 [[Throne of Eldraine]]

Commander 2019, officially styled as Commander (2019 Edition), is a product in the Commander series that will be released by Wizards of the Coast on August 23, 2019.[4][5]

Set details

Commander 2019 consists of four preconstructed theme decks, and features twelve premium foil commanders. The four 100-card decks contain 302 different cards in total. There are 59 new cards legal in Vintage and Legacy. The set is available in English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. Each deck comes with a deck box, 10 double-faced token cards, a strategy insert and a rules reference guide. Each deck also comes with an oversized premium card that corresponds to the face commander of that deck. The basic lands of the set use the panorama art by Alayna Danner that was first used for the Core Set 2019 Standard Showdown.[6]

There is no pattern of colors between the decks.[7] The themes are:

Marketing

A special Sol Ring Commander promo (foil and non-foil) with new art by Mark Tedin will be released at Grand Prix Las Vegas, just before the release of Commander 2019.[9][10] It will be available through Commander events at MagicFests throughout the year, and at select conventions in 2020.

Mechanics

The European Distributor Blackfire accidently posted the information that each deck had a returning keyword ability as its main theme.[11] The four featured abilities are populate, flashback, morph (including manifest and megamorph[8]), and madness. This was later confirmed in the Magic panel at Gen Con 2019.[7]

Other returning non-evergreen mechanics on new cards:

Card types

Commander 2019 introduces the Sculpture creature subtype unique for tokens created by Doomed Artisan.

Cycles

Commander 2019 has four cycles, three of which only consist of four cards and one of which consists of six cards.

Preconstructed decks

Commander 2019 consists of four decks featuring twelve premium foil commanders. Each deck contains 100 cards plus an oversized foil commander card.

Theme
deck name
Color Identity Commander
{W} {U} {B} {R} {G}
Faceless Menace U B G Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
Mystic Intellect W U R Sevinne, the Chronoclasm
Primal Genesis W R G Ghired, Conclave Exile
Merciless Rage B R Anje Falkenrath

Tokens, overlay cards and emblem

Commander 2019 features 26 tokens, two overlay cards and one emblem:[12]

  1. {W} 3/4 Bird with flying for Wingmate Roc.
  2. {W} 3/3 Bird with flying for Roc Egg.
  3. {W} 1/1 Human for Increasing Devotion.
  4. {W} 1/1 Pegasus with flying for Storm Herd.
  5. {W} 1/1 Spirit with flying for Thalia's Geistcaller.
  6. {W} 3/4 Angel Zombie with flying. Embalmed token for Angel of Sanctions.
  7. {W} 4/3 Manticore Zombie. Embalmed token for Heart-Piercer Manticore.
  8. {U} 2/2 Drake token with flying for Talrand, Sky Summoner.
  9. {B} 1/1 Assassin with “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game,” for Vraska the Unseen
  10. {B} 2/2 Zombie for Bone Miser, From Under the Floorboards, Overseer of the Damned and Zombie Infestation.
  11. {B} 2/2 Zombie
  12. {R} 5/5 Dragon with flying for Dragonmaster Outcast.
  13. {G} 4/4 Beast for Rampaging Baloths.
  14. {G} 3/3 Beast for Beast Within, Fresh Meat, Garruk, Primal Hunter, Soul of Zendikar and Thragtusk.
  15. {G} 3/3 Centaur for Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage.
  16. {G} 0/1 Egg with defender for Atla Palani, Nest Tender.
  17. {G} 1/1 Plant for Grismold, the Dreadsower.
  18. {G} 4/4 Rhino with trample for Ghired, Conclave Exile.
  19. {G} 1/1 Saproling for Thelonite Hermit.
  20. {G} 1/1 Snake for Hooded Hydra.
  21. {G} 6/6 Wurm for Garruk, Primal Hunter.
  22. {C} 3/4 Gargoyle with flying for Gargoyle Castle.
  23. {C} */* Horror for Phyrexian Rebirth.
  24. {C} */* Sculpture with “This creature’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of Sculptures you control,” for Doomed Artisan.
  25. {C} Treasure for Dockside Extortionist.
  26. {C} 10/10 Eldrazi for Desolation Twin and Idol of Oblivion.
  27. {C} 2/2 overlay card for morph.
  28. {C} 2/2 overlay card for manifest.
  29. Emblem for Ob Nixilis, Reignited.

Notable cards

Basic land panorama

References