


If a commander deals 21 combat damage to a player, that player loses the game. Triggered abilities that care about creatures dying or going to the exile zone now happen. Can commanders go to the graveyard?Įven if you choose to make your commander go back to the command zone, with the new rules, the commander actually goes to the graveyard or exile zone before going to the command zone. Since you can choose, it can go to exile if the player wants. If your commander would be exiled or put into your hand, graveyard, or library from anywhere, you may choose to put it into the command zone instead. However, Wizards made some planeswalker cards that can be commanders stated in the card ability, but they are the exception. Most planeswalkers cannot be a commander because the rules committee banned them from being commanders. Can planeswalkers be Commanders?Ī planeswalker can be a commander if the card says that they it can. Yes, any creature that enters the battlefield from anywhere suffers from Summoning Sickness unless otherwise stated. Until today, you can't have 3 or more commanders. Because both commanders start the game in the command zone, the remaining library is only 98 cards. Generally you can only have one commander, but a player can have two if both have the partner ability. How many commanders can you have? Can you have 3 commanders? The chosen card or pair is called the commander or general of the deck. When choosing a commander, you must use either a legendary creature, a planeswalker with the ability to be commander, or a pair of legendary creatures or planeswalkers that both have partner. Unlike Blossom, this plays much more defensive as it comes down that much later.Īll in all, I would draft Thopter Pie Network in Cubes 720+, or 360+ for the Holidays.What are the requirements for a Commander in MTG? In a lower powered Cube I don't hate this, but in the vast majority of Cubes I would consider this card pretty unplayable. This card is like a double costed Bitterblossom without the life payment. However, if you run Zedruu the Greathearted, Donate or Harmless Offering than you can make some really disgusting tokens out of food and then give them to your friends. Does a 4 mana enchantment that lets you snack every turn if you're snacking really warrant running? The answer overwhelmingly is no. This narrows somewhat the strength of this card. So, I make a ruling from on high - no gum! Fat Ass wants you to keep eating to keep him big. But what ultimately tipped the scales was the card itself. In the end, it became clear that the majority of R&D members don't consider gum food and that an even larger group feel gum isn't eaten. Is gum food? Do you "eat" it? Meaty issues. I'm going to grab some rulings from Fat Ass to assist with some of the rulings for the card:Ī: Nope, only chewing, licking, sucking, and swallowing.Ī: You might not believe this, but this question sucked up more R&D time than all the other questions on this list combined. As with Yule Ooze, the power of this card goes up depending on the snack. Today we'll be discussing Thopter Pie Network, a take on Thopter Spy Network from Magic Orgins. Welcome back to my final Cube Card of the Day: Holiday edition. They all thought her dream was just pie in the sky. Whenever a creature token you control dies, if it’s represented by food, eat it.

Matthew Watkins' Ars Arcanum MTGO Cube AnalysisĪt the beginning of your upkeep, if you’re eating, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
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Limited Resources (Cube Episodes: 59, 77, 213, 313)ģ-0 winning deck archive from the XMage Cube Group In Contention (Cube Episodes: 25, 31, 36, 71) Wtwlf's MTGS article on Cube Design Philosophy The Magic Show Episode #61 "Gleaming the Cube" Simple_Man's Cube Card of the Day Archive General ResourcesĬube Organization (no longer regularly updated) "It's like drafting hyperbole." - Evan ErwinĪ Cube is a custom draft set, typically designed to showcase the "best" cards ever printed in Magic, but sometimes with other thematic restrictions.
