Commander Legends

Commander Legends

 

Commander decks

 

Commander Legends
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	a shield, with elements of the original Legends symbol and the legendary card frame.
Design	Gavin Verhey (lead) Shawn Main Ethan Fleischer Robert Schuster
Development	Jules Robins (lead)
Art direction	Dawn Murin
Release date	November 20, 2020
Plane	Various
Themes and mechanics	Legendary
Keywords/​ability words	Partner
Set size	361 + 361
Expansion code	CMR
Development codename	Chevron
Commander series
Zendikar Rising Commander Decks Commander Legends Commander Legends Commander Decks
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Secret Lair Drop Series: The Walking Dead Commander Legends Commander Legends Commander Decks

Not to be confused with Commander or Legends.

Expansion symbol

CMR draft booster

Commander Legends is the first-ever Magic: The Gathering Commander set that is designed to be drafted. It is the Innovation product for 2020, and will be released on November 20, 2020. Due to production delays, the release date of this set was pushed back from November 6 to November 20.

Set details

“

Booster Draft meets Commander

”

Commander Legends is larger than a normal set, with both oft-asked-for Commander reprints and new cards. There are 165 new cards, including 71 legendary creatures and planeswalkers. The cards are legal in Eternal formats like Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. The set contains 361 regular cards (1 special) and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. There are no basic lands. The set introduces "foil-etched" cards, which use a brand-new foiling process that looks different from previous foils and have a special card frame. 32 popular legendary creatures reprints exclusively appear into this frame. Foil-etched cards appear in both Draft and Collector Boosters. Cards with alternate card frames have another collector number than the original version. Extended artwork cards are numbered #TBA-TBA, and foil-etched cards are numbered #TBA-TBA. Both regular and foil versions of these cards may be found in the Collector Boosters. The Buy-a-Box is #721 and the prerelease promo is #722.

The set is designed to play Limited Commander: you can play Draft or Sealed with it. It will also be available and draftable on Magic Online.

Drafting rules

Commander Legends draft uses three draft boosters per player. For every pick, players take two cards at a time. This is done for coherency of the decks and for speed. After the draft, players build a 60-card deck — much like how a traditional deck of Magic is 60 cards and a traditional draft is 40, here it's 60 to Commander's 100. All other Commander rules apply with one exception. You can play more than one copy of a card if you draft it: the Singleton rule does not apply. It doesn't happen very often with 3 packs and 20 cards given the set size, but duplicates are allowed.

Storyline

The set features many known planes and characters as well as new ones. These cards can be from anywhere in space and time in the Multiverse: from Lorwyn to Alara, from the tales of the original Weatherlight Crew to present day.

Marketing

Commander Legends is sold in 20-card booster packs, with a foil and two legendary creatures in every single pack. A 21st card is a Marketing card. The set is available in English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The cards will also be sold in 15-card Collector Boosters. Booster boxes contain 24 booster packs. The Draft Boosters feature Jeska key art; the Collector Boosters feature art from Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.

The set is not a fixed print run, and thus will be printed on demand. Boosters are more expensive than normal booster products, but less expensive than Masters series product boosters. Booster boxes are being sold for around $125 US.

Events

• At-Home and In-Store Prerelease: November 13, 2020.
• Magic Online release: November 19, 2020.

Promotional cards

• Prerelease: alternate art Sengir, the Dark Baron by Pete Venters.
  • Only given out to players who have a Wizards Account (available via the Magic Companion app).
• Buy-a-Box: foil alternate art Mana Confluence.

Tokens and emblems

Commander Legends comes with X tokens and emblems. Token and emblems appear in the marketing card slot.

1. 1/1 Soldier creature for Keeper of the Accord.
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4. 0/1 Kobold creature named Kobolds of Kher Keep for Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.
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Themes and mechanics

The set of course features many legendary creatures and planeswalkers to use as commanders, some of which are uncommon. There is also one legendary creature (The Prismatic Piper) that is printed at the new "special" rarity, replacing a common in about 1 in 6 draft packs.

In addition, Commander Legends has three returning non-evergreen mechanics and one new mechanic.

• Partner is the first returning mechanic. To facilitate deckbuilding, the set features 40 monocolor partners (and one colorless partner). A player may have two commanders if each of them has the partner keyword. The two partners together provide a 2-color color identity for the deck. The Prismatic Piper is intended to be used as a failsafe, providing an additional color for a deck when the player isn't able to draft the right commanders.

Commander Legends features the following limited archetypes:

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Cycles

Commander Legends has at least one cycle.

Cycle name
Crowd lands	Vault of Champions	Training Center	Undergrowth Stadium	Spectator Seating	Rejuvenating Springs
	Five rare dual lands that enter the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents, completing a cycle started in Battlebond.

Preconstructed decks

Commander Legends also features two preconstructed Commander decks that are released as a regular part of a set's product line. These are meant to be on-ramps to Commander, with a few new cards (three per deck) and the rest reprints. The new cards can't be found in Draft Boosters. The expansion code for these is CMC.

Theme deck name	Color Identity					Commander
TBA 1						TBA
TBA 2						TBA

Changes in rarity

Rare to mythic rare

• Mana Confluence (Journey into Nyx)

Notable cards

• The green card that completes the Magus Megacycle.
• The Prismatic Piper — a Pauper Commander and the first card with the "special" rarity. It is a essentially a "basic" Commander. Like basic lands, it is always available to you, whether you drafted it or not.