Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate is the second Magic: The Gathering Commander set that is designed to be drafted. It will be released on Q03 of 2021.
Set details
| “ | Booster Draft meets Commander | ” |
Commander Legends is larger than a normal set, with both oft-asked-for Commander reprints and new cards.
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.[1] This is to ensure coherency of decks, as players will need to conform to the color identities of their eventual commanders, 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: the Singleton rule does not apply. You may play as many copies of a card as you draft of it, though given the set size compared to how many cards players get, it's not very likely to get more than 1 copy of a card.[2] Players may always use one or more The Prismatic Pipers as a commander, even if they didn't draft one.
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.[3]
Marketing
Commander Legends is sold in 20-card (draft booster) booster packs. Each booster pack contains a non-legendary rare or mythic rare, a foil and two legendary creatures (which may also be rare or higher) in every pack.[4] A 21st card is a Marketing card.[5] The set is available in English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The set is also sold in 15-card Collector Boosters. Both of these types of boosters' booster boxes contain 24 booster packs. The Draft Boosters feature TBA key art; the Collector Boosters feature art from TBA.
Events
- At-Home and In-Store Prerelease:
- Magic Online release:
Promotional cards
Tokens and markers
Commander Legends comes with TBA tokens and markers.[6] Tokens and markers appear in the marketing card slot.
Themes and mechanics
Commander Legends: Battle fof Baldur's Gate features the following limited archetypes:
Card types
Cycles
Commander Legends has cycles.
Preconstructed decks
Changes in rarity
Notable cards
References
- ↑ Eli Shiffrin (November 6, 2020). "Commander Legends Release Notes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Gavin Verhey (August 22, 2020). "When drafting, it's a big mental tax on an already complicated format to keep in mind the off-chance you might grab an illegal duplicate.". Twitter.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedSneak Peek - ↑ Gavin Verhey (October 22, 2020). "To clarify: the 2 guaranteed legends do *not* replace your rare!". Twitter.
- ↑ Gavin Verhey (October 26, 2020). "And as a reminder: the legends drop in their own slot, independent of your regular rare.". Twitter.
- ↑ Kendall Pepple (November 4, 2020). "The Tokens of Commander Legends". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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