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Watchlists

“PROBATION”

These cards are legal to play, but have great potential to be banned. All of these cards have been banned in other commander formats...

Cards on Probation:

Back to Basics

Dig Through Time

Griselbrand

Humility

Painter's Servant

Primeval Titan

Recurring Nightmare

Sylvan Primordial

Trade Secrets

Treasure Cruise

Commanders on Probation:

Braids, Cabal Minion

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Griselbrand

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Marath, Will of the Wild

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Selenia, Dark Angel

Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Zur the Enchanter

WATCHLIST:

Whenever a card creeps into focus due to its combo potential or another awesome yet troublesome or time-wasting reason... it shall appear on the watchlist. These cards are legal to play, but have the potential to be banned.

Potential “Soon-to-be-Unbanned”:

Balance

Burgeoning

Food Chain

Gifts Ungiven

Hermit Druid

Inexorable Tide

Knowledge Pool

Mana Drain

Necropotence

Oath of Druids

Panharmonicon

Panoptic Mirror

Protean Hulk

Viral Drake

Yawgmoth’s Bargain

Commanders:

Captain Sisay

Arcum Dagsson

Iname, Death Aspect

Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

Maralen of the Mornsong

Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Sliver Overlord

Zirilan of the Claw

Breya, Etherium Shaper

Infinite combat:

Aggravated Assault

Hellkite Charger

Infinite mana:

Ashnod's Altar

Basalt Monolith

Basal Sliver

Intruder Alarm

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Lion's Eye Diamond

Mana Echoes

Palinchron

Pili-Pala

Phyrexian Altar

Quillspike

Worldgorger Dragon

Infinite mill:

Altar of Dementia

Eater of the Dead

Mindcrank

“Ridiculously busted” combo cards:

Aluren

Cloudstone Curio

Crypt Champion

Earthcraft

Hivemind

Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Midnight Guard

Mind Over Matter

Opalescence

Nim Deathmantle

Phyrexian Devourer

Retraction Helix

Sharuum the Hegemon

Spawnsire of Ulamog

Staff of Domination

Swans of Byrn Argoll

Tidespout Tyrant

Thornbite Staff

Umbral Mantle

Volcano Hellion

Waste Not

"You win/draw the game" cards:

Azor's Elocutors (lol)

Barren Glory

Battle of Wits (lol)

Biovisionary

Celestial Convergence

Chance Encounter

Darksteel Reactor

Divine Intervention

Epic Struggle

Enduring Renewal

Hedron Alignment (lol)

Helix Pinnacle

Hellkite Tyrant

Laboratory Maniac

Mayael's Aria

Maze's End

Mortal Combat

Near-Death Experience

Sands of Time

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Test of Endurance

Felidar Sovereign

Infinite turns:

Beacon of Tomorrows

Time Sieve

1cc/Problematic tutors:

Crop Rotation

Demonic Consultation

Enlightened Tutor

Vampiric Tutor

Mystical Tutor

Imperial Seal

Entomb

Gamble

Green Sun's Zenith

Personal Tutor

Steelshaper's Gift

Summoner's Pact

Survival of the Fittest

Tainted Pact

Traverse the Ulvenwald

Worldly Tutor

Birthing Pod

Bad River

Flood Plain

Grasslands

Mountain Valley

Rocky Tar Pit

Bloodstained Mire

Flooded Strand

Polluted Delta

Windswept Heath

Wooded Foothills

Arid Mesa

Marsh Flats

Misty Rainforest

Scalding Tarn

Verdant Catacombs

Ash Barrens

Evolving Wilds

Terramorphic Expanse

Attune with Aether

Caravan Vigil

Cateran Summons

Flamekin Harbinger

Lay of the Land

Mask of the Mimic

Safewright Quest

Tithe

Treefolk Harbinger

Weathered Wayfarer

(any search/tutor cards in general)

"Stasis… is bad?"

Dovescape

Stasis

"Eldrazi… are(nihilator) bad?"

Artisan of Kozilek

Eldrazi Conscription

Hand of Emrakul

It That Betrays

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Pathrazer of Ulamog

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Ulamog's Crusher

"Bounce/destroy/exile all lands/permanents"

Ajani Vengeant

Apocalypse

Armageddon

Bearer of the Heavens

Boom//Bust

Catastrophe

Decree of Annihilation

Desolation Angel

Devastation

Dimensional Breach

Gideon, Champion of Justice

Impending Disaster

Jokulhaups

Karn Liberated

Myojin of Infinite Rage

Obliterate

Ravages of War

Razia's Purification

Realm Razer

Soulscour

Sunder

Thieves' Auction

Warp World

Worldpurge

Worldslayer

Other Potential Problem Cards:

(Buyback cards)

(certain "untap artifact" cards)

(Persist cards)

("STAX" cards)

(Storm cards)

Altar of the Brood

Birthing Pod

Black Carriage

Cabal Coffers

Charmbreaker Devils

Consecrated Sphinx

Conspiracy

Crucible of Worlds

Deadeye Navigator

Djinn Illuminatus

Elemental Mastery

Enchanted Evening

Exploration

Exquisite Blood

Freed from Real

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Grindstone

Heartless Hidetsugu

Heartstone

Helm of Obedience

Illusionist's Bracers

Karmic Guide

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Land Tax

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Mind’s Desire

Mycosynth Lattice

Nivix Guildmage

Nykthos, Shrine of Nyx

Omniscience

Pact of the Titan

Pemmin's Aura

Perilous Forays

Reiterate

Repay in Kind

Reveillark

Riku of Two Reflections

Rings of Brightearth

Rite of Replication

Rooftop Storm

Sanguine Bond

Serra's Sanctum

Shaman of Forgotten Ways

Spike Feeder

Spine of Ish Sah

Splinter Twin

Sun Forger

Sun Titan

Survival of the Fittest

Sword of the Meek

Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Thawing Glaciers

Training Grounds

Triskelion

Void Winnower (lol)

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Social Contract

The Spirit of the Game

1) HAVE FUN. Remember, this is a CASUAL format. A good Siege Commander game is really awesome: it is a game in which all the players enjoy themselves. Attitude will have a strong effect on fun. Those who worry too much about winning, or about playing the "right" way, or about being a "good" player, will interfere with their own enjoyment of the gaming experience. Taking the game too seriously is a heavy mistake.

2) Foster awesome gameplay and interactions at the table (think of “big, splashy spells and giant creatures").

3) Strong play and wise decisions are always preferable. There are stronger players and weaker ones. Players will make wise and foolish decisions. Regardless of playing style, the competition is always keener, more exciting, and more fun, if it is strong.

4) Don't complain about losing or variance. It happens! Accept that you are at the mercy of the wheels of fate. There are some people who need to win to be amused, and Siege Commander is not a game for such persons. With three players, any one of them has a chance of winning about 33% of the time. “Not good odds for a victorioholic!” This only escalates as more people enter the game.

5) Don't play or construct your decks to:

initiate a sequence of game choices that could be repeated infinitely in a loop;

destroy/exile/bounce both all basic and non-basic lands at the same time;

win by completing a card's "subgame" (i.e. "if [condition is met]… you win");

make it where people cannot ever cast spells;

generate a powerful mana advantage within the first 1-2 turns;

do anything else not listed here that is inherently broken.

6) Players are responsible for:

Behaving in a respectful manner toward Siege Commander participants and spectators,

Refraining from unsporting conduct at all times,

Announcing all spells and triggers,

Not stacking cards or putting them in places where your opponents can’t read the names of all of them or count them,

Playing at a reasonable pace, and

Being familiar with all rules of play.

#SiegeCommander

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Rules

Official Rules

903Ω. Siege Commander

903Ω.1. In the Siege Commander variant, each deck is led by a legendary creature designated as that deck‘s commander. The Siege Commander variant was created and popularized by fans; an independent rules committee maintains additional resources at http://freddiemercurysliver.tumblr.com, inspired by http://mtgcommander.net, http://duelcommander.com, and https://www.facebook.com/LeviathanCommander/. The Siege Commander variant uses all the normal rules for a Magic game, with the following additions.

903Ω.2. A Siege Commander game may be a two-player game or a multiplayer game. The default multiplayer setup is the Free-for-All variant with the attack multiple players option and without the limited range of influence option. See rule 806, ―Free-for-All Variant.

903Ω.3. Each deck has a legendary creature card designated as its commander; a nonbasic land card named "Command Tower" designated as its tower; and two basic land cards designated as its demesne (pronounced "dih-meyn"). These designations are not characteristics of the object represented by the card; rather, they are attributes of the card itself. The card retains these designations even when they change zones.

Example: A commander that's been turned face down (due to Ixidron's effect, for example) is still a commander. A commander that's copying another card (due to Cytoshape's effect, for example) is still a commander. A permanent that's copying a commander (such as a Body Double, for example, copying a commander in a player's graveyard) is not a commander.

903Ω.4. The Siege Commander variant uses color identity to determine what cards can be in a deck with a certain commander. The color identity of a card is determined by the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card‘s mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities (see rule 604.3) or color indicator (see rule 204).

Example: Bosh, Iron Golem is a legendary artifact creature with mana cost {8} and the ability “{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh, Iron Golem deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost to target creature or player.” Bosh's color identity is red. ## 903Ω.4a. Color identity is established before the game begins. ## 903Ω.4b. Reminder text is ignored when determining a card‘s color identity. See rule 207.2. ## 903Ω.4c. The back face of a double-faced card (see rule 711) is included when determining a card's color identity. #### Example: Civilized Scholar is the front face of a double-faced card with mana cost {2}{U}. Homicidal Brute is the back face of that double-faced card and has a red color indicator. The card's color identity is blue and red. 903Ω.5. Each Siege Commander deck is subject to the following deck construction rules. ## 903Ω.5a. Each deck must contain exactly 104 cards, including its commander, tower, and two demense lands.

## 903Ω.5b. Other than basic lands, each card in a Siege Commander deck must have a different English name. ## 903Ω.5c. A card can be included in a Siege Commander deck only if a color in its color identity is also found in the color identity of the deck's commander. #### Example: Wort, the Raidmother is a legendary creature with mana cost {4}{R/G}{R/G}. Wort's color identity is red and green. Each card in a Wort Siege Commander deck must be only red, only green, both red and green, a hybrid of red or green, or have no color. Each mana symbol in the mana cost or rules text of a card in this deck must be only red, only green, both red and green, a hybrid of red or green, or have no color. ## 903Ω.5d. A card with a basic land type may be included in a Siege Commander deck only if each color of mana it could produce is included in the commander‘s color identity, and if it can be cast using mana of the color identity of its commander. #### Example: Wort, the Raidmother's color identity is red and green. A Wort Siege Commander deck may include land cards with the basic land types Mountain and/or Forest. It can't include any land cards with the basic land types Plains, Island, or Swamp. 903Ω.6. At the start of the game, each player puts his or her commander, tower, and demanse cards from his or her deck face up into the command zone. Then each player shuffles the remaining 100 cards of his or her deck so that the cards are in a random order. Those cards become the player's library. 903Ω.7. Once the starting player has been determined, each player sets his or her life total to 30 and draws a hand of seven cards. 903Ω.8. The Siege Commander variant uses an alternate mulligan rule.

## 903Ω.8a. The first time a player takes a takes a mulligan, rather than shuffling his or her entire hand of cards into his or her library, that player exiles any number of cards from his or her hand. Then the player draws a number of cards equal to the number of cards he or she exiled this way.

## 903Ω.8b. The next time and each additional time a player takes a mulligan, rather than shuffling his or her entire hand of cards into his or her library, that player exiles any number of cards from his or her hand. Then the player draws a number of cards equal to one less than the number of cards he or she exiled this way. Once a player keeps an opening hand, that player shuffles all cards he or she exiled this way into his or her library. 903Ω.9. If mana would be added to a player‘s mana pool of a color that isn‘t in the color identity of that player‘s commander, that amount of colorless mana is added to that player‘s mana pool instead.

903Ω.10. Commander, tower, and demesne cards are nontraditional Magic cards.

## 903Ω.10a. A player may cast a commander he or she owns from the command zone. Doing so costs that player an additional {2} for each previous time he or she cast that commander from the command zone that game. ## 903Ω.10b. A player who has priority may play a land card from his or her hand or command zone during a main phase of his or her turn when the stack is empty. Playing a land is a special action; it doesn’t use the stack (see rule 115). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, it is never a spell, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities. ## 903Ω.10c. A player can only play one land from the command zone during each of his or her turns; continuous effects may not increase this number.

## 903Ω.10d. If a demense land would be shuffled into its owner’s library from anywhere, its owner must exile it instead. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event. This is an exception to rule 614.5.

903Ω.11. If a commander would be put into its owner‘s graveyard from anywhere, that player may put it into the command zone instead. 903Ω.12. If a commander would be put into the exile zone from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.

903Ω.13. If a card is put into the exile zone face down from anywhere, and a player is allowed to look at that card in exile, the player must immediately do so. If it‘s a commander owned by another player, the player that looked at it turns it face up and puts it into the command zone. 903Ω.14. The Siege Commander variant includes the following specification for winning and losing the game. All other rules for ending the game also apply. (See rule 104.) ## 903Ω.14a. A player that‘s been dealt twenty-one or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.) ## 903Ω.14b. If a player has fifteen or more poison counters, he or she loses the game the next time a player would receive priority. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)

903Ω.15. The Siege Commander variant does not allow “infinite” loops for combos.

## 903Ω.15a. If a player begins a sequence of game choices that could be repeated definitely or indefinitely in an infinite loop, that player immediately exiles all facilitating objects (spells, abilities, and permanents, etc.) of that loop instead. Any unused mana left in that player's mana pool empties. This action doesn't use the stack.

## 903Ω.15b. Infinite loops involve the following categories: (1) gaining additional turns; (2) dealing damage; (3) losing life; (4) gaining life; (5) generating mana; (6) creating creatures; (7) increasing or decreasing the power or toughness of a creature; (8) milling a library; (9) drawing cards; and (10) other miscellaneous shenanigans.

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