Sol Ring seems to hit several of the ban criteria out of the park, but its persistent inclusion in the Commander products leads us to surmise that they perceive a little acceleration as being fine. So it gets a pass I suppose.Ī common complaint around local tables is the omnipresence of Sol Ring and its more expensive and faster sibling Mana Crypt. It doesn’t seem that Worskhop would be ubiquitous (you would not run it in Thrun, the Last Troll, for example) and it does not act especially poorly in the Commander format, inasmuch as many of the cooler commanders are colourless and not artifacts. Hell, it’s not bad if it lets you play a handful of accelerants on turn one either. If a Mox is too expensive, then why is Mishra’s Workshop allowed? Certainly, Mishra’s tool shed is supremely powerful if you have 30 or more artifacts in your deck. Here, however, we feel the first thread of inconsistency brush our weathered faces. On the surface, we can come to an agreement that asking players to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to acquire Moxen and a Lotus would be unhealthy for the format, on top of the extreme acceleration these would afford players. Lastly, they also dislike cards that produce an abundance of quick mana or would be ubiquitous in play use (the last ban criteria). Let’s begin by taking a quick look at the banned list and then their criteria for banning, as well as some cards that could fit into the various categories.Īs we can see, there are a lot of very expensive cards (one ban criterion), some cards that would just break games (a second ban criterion) and some cards that interact poorly for the format or would be centralizing when played (a third and fourth ban criterion). Still, grousing and concern about various centralizing cards continues unabated on both the official forums and a dedicated thread on MTGSalvation. It has been quite some time since the Commander Rules Committee (RC) has banned a card or made changes to the format, outside of modifying the “tuck” rule and the upcoming changes to the Commander mulligan in January. ![]() An Examination of the Commander Banned List
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