Can you exile a Commander card?

A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it's been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

Can you permanently exile a Commander?

Players have access to their commander every game, and if they die or are exiled, they can instead place them back into the command zone. Recasting them takes two extra mana per revival, but their potential resurrections make them almost impossible to permanently eliminate.

Can you exile a Commander card in Magic The Gathering?

If Gerrard is your commander, you can exile it into the command zone from your graveyard. You'll still return your artifact and creature cards.

What happens if someone exiles your Commander?

Whenever a Commander is exiled or enters the graveyard, they are returned to toe command zone. The only zones your commander remains in are: Command zone.

Can a Commander be exiled from a graveyard?

Yes, you can put it back into the command zone when it's exiled from your graveyard. 903.12. If a commander would be put into the exile zone from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.

Back to the Basics - Exile

Can you steal commanders from graveyards?

Yes you absolutely can. The owner of the commander can only move it from the graveyard to the command zone as a Statebased action. And we don't check state-based actions while spells are resolving. So it can steal commanders.

Can you exile Commander until card leaves the battlefield?

If your Commander is Exiled by a card with text like [[Banishing Light]], you can choose to put your Commander in the command zone, and still get it back "for free" if [[Banishing Light]] leaves the battlefield, as long as your commander hasn't changed zones since doing so.

Can I sacrifice my Commander?

You can also sacrifice your opponents' commanders as long as they're under your control.

Can desertion steal a Commander?

Can desertion steal commanders? Yes. If you counter someone's commander, you put it onto the battlefield. It never even tries to go to the graveyard, so you can counter and steal someone's commander with Desertion.

Can grave betrayal take commanders?

Am I correct that Grave Betrayal can now steal commanders? No because it dies, then moves from the graveyard to the command zone. In doing so, it changes zones and becomes a new object with no memory.

Can you negate a Commander?

That's right! Wash Away can counter commanders for just one mana. That's CRAZY good. Wash Away is one of the most efficient ways to counter a commander in all of Magic: the Gathering.

Is a Commander a permanent?

903.3d If an effect refers to controlling a commander, it refers to a permanent on the battlefield that is a commander. If an effect refers to casting a commander, it refers to a spell that is a commander.

Can you exile a Commander with mimic VAT?

#1. Yes, you can do that. If It's your commander, you get to choose whether it goes to the graveyard/exile or the command zone. Take note, that you will never be able to put him back into the command zone after that(because he won't change zones, you'll just keep making a copy).

Can your Commander do Commander damage to yourself?

Yup! You sure can. The specific rule for commander damage doesn't specify that an opponent's commander had to deal the damage, just that a specific commander needs to deal damage. If you somehow take 21 or more damage from your own commander, you still lose the game.

Can I mutate my Commander?

Commander is where mutate gets even trickier so it's doubly important to be well researched and understand the mechanic. If your commander is mutated into a pile then the merged creature does commander damage and counts as your commander regardless of its location in the pile.

What happens if a Commander can't be regenerated?

An effect which says something "can't be regenerated" means that the Regenerate replacement effect won't be applied to that creature even if one is active. If something "can't be regenerated", you can still cast spells and activate abilities that produce a Regenerate effect, but they just won't do anything useful.

Can a Commander be bounced to hand?

The owner of the commander may choose to have it return to the command zone or go to hand. If the owner chooses hand they may play that card from hand without paying the tax. If the commander returns to the command zone then the tax is increased by 2 colourless mana.

Why is land destruction frowned upon in Commander?

What is land destruction in Commander? Land destruction isn't specific to Commander, not at all, but it's one of the places where it's most abhorrent as the games tend to go on for a long time anyway. It's a way of playing that aims to simply destroy lands, and therefore restrict mana.

What is the new Commander graveyard rule?

If a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that card was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone. If a commander would be put into its owner's hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.

Can you have a colorless Commander?

The rules of Commander are the same for colorless commanders as for any other colors. This means playing with only colorless cards. And that's what makes building a deck around a colorless commander very hard, but also very fun.

What is rule 0 Commander?

Rule 0 is an unofficial rule in Commander that allows players to modify the rules of a non-competitive game. The catch? Everyone who's participating has to agree to the changes before the game begins. If you're familiar with the term “house rules,” it's the same concept.

How many Planeswalkers can you have in Commander?

How Many Planeswalkers Can You Have in Your Commander Deck? Again, there is no limit. Just make sure you abide by the singleton and color identity rules of the format.

Can you exile indestructible?

An indestructible permanent can be exiled, returned to a player's hand, put into a graveyard for having 0 or less toughness (via anything that gives -X/-X for example), or sacrificed.

Can you have more then 100 cards in Commander?

A commander deck has to be 99 cards + the commander, for a total of 100. It cannot be any more or any less. 903.5a Each deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including its commander.

Can you exile a planeswalker?

You can't. They have the first chance to play something after the planeswalker resolves and once the ability is on the stack it will resolve even if the planeswalker is removed in response.