Commander cards in Modern?
Asked by thechrisgeddes 7 years ago
When I first started playing magic again, after not playing for almost 15 years the first deck I bought was a all green elf commander deck. I broke it down and made a elf deck out of it(So its no longer a commander deck) I was told by a group of guys that I just started playing with the commander cards are banned in modern yet I can't find them in the banned list? I have spend a decent amount of money building this deck so I will play it in legacy or whatever
Cards printed exclusivly in supplimental sets are also not modern legal.
August 11, 2017 6:12 p.m.
thechrisgeddes says... #3
thank you, how do I know which was those are. Because some of the cards are legal in modern.
August 11, 2017 6:17 p.m.
thechrisgeddes says... #4
No sorry, I haven't made the deck out on here yet. I will soon though and I will share it with you.
August 11, 2017 6:18 p.m.
Tyrant-Thanatos says... #5
If it was never standard legal, it's not modern legal.
Generally you can look at the Gatherer, WotC's official card database, to see what formats a card is legal in. If you build a deck here on Tappedout, it has a legality checker which you can see in the deck's data in the lower right, but it's not always 100% accurate. Definitely check the Gatherer if you have any doubts, it will list all the formats a card is legal/restricted/banned in, if it doesn't list a format at all, that means it was never legal in that format because it simply doesn't fit into the card pool that format uses.
August 11, 2017 6:29 p.m. Edited.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx is the dest deckbuilding tool! agree with everyone else here.
Wurmlover says... Accepted answer #1
Well the banned and restricted list is different from the cards just being too old. To play it in modern you need to play with cards that were printed in 8th edition and later. The banned and restricted list is for cards that were flat out too powerful for modern. Its probably because the cards are too old. do you have a link to the list?
August 11, 2017 6:04 p.m. Edited.