JULY 2022 RULES - BANNED/RESTRICTED UPDATE

Hello again, dear Duel Commander players around the world. It's summer time! We hope the recent uprise in COVID-19 waves won't be too much of a disturbance, this time. We just had a new Commander set, and a couple interesting cards to play, it seems we're going to break the record of first-time printed new cards this year again.


The current state of Duel Commander is really interesting. As usual, some decks went under waves of popularity and decline, lots of people enjoy the recent additions to Magic The Gathering. As for now, everything seems really interesting for us. With one exception, that you'll find below.


We hope you'll appreciate that decision, despite the fact it was a quite subtle one for many of you.

CHANGES:

🔘 RULES CHANGES


  • No changes.


🔘INDIVIDUAL CARD CHANGES




🔘 EXPERIMENTAL CHANGES


  • No changes.


🔘 OTHER CHANGES


  • No changes.


👉 Don’t forget to check out our Banned and Restricted page for a recap of all the currently banned/restricted cards.

👉 You can still contact us on our Facebook Page page and our Discord server. The next announcement will be published on September 26, 2022 .

Until then, we wish you all many good games! :)

FURTHER INDIVIDUAL EXPLANATIONS


Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes is not about what makes a good or bad experience. It's not about building decks with an obliterating fast commander live. It's not about being a planeswalker as a commander. It's not about its colours. It's not about the extra card draws. It's not about the oppression of a super-early-blitz to mid-turns-targeted commander. It's not about commander-centric experiences. It's not about "respond or die" experiences. It's not about fighting 4/4 or 7/7 hasty, trampling creatures.

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes is about all of that, at the same time. Which makes it quite hard to evaluate. This is the first time we face all those aspects accumulated, in a way that can be handled (Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes saw countless wins… And defeats). But the sum of all nuisances is indeed very often a higher nuisance. Which is why, after debating over those aspects and many more we decided to ban Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes as a commander.