Significant Commander Rules Change Announced!

The site is getting hit pretty hard right now, but here's a link to the post about the rules change.

http://mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18057

Here's my summary of the changes:

*Muligans*

Mulligans are changing to use the "Vancouver" mulligan rule. In other words, you will mulligan for a game of commander the same way you mulligan for a game of standard, except the first (multiplayer) mulligan is still free.

There are several other recommendations for mulligans in the post, but they are not official.


*Rule 4*


Rule 4 was the rule that restricted the colors of mana you could make to only the colors in your commander's color identity. It meant that you couldn't make green mana with your Darksteel Ingot to regenerate the Thrun you cloned with your mono-blue Sakashima commander.



The thing that was making this rule weird is the new colorless mana introduced in Oath of the Gatewatch. It would allow a player to purposefully generate mana that is not in their commander's color identity, specifically because the rules would then turn that mana into a colorless mana that could be used to pay for the more restrictive colorless spells, like Kozilek, the Great Distortion.

Both the original case of how the rules worked and the example I described are not intuitive, so they are getting rid of it.


*Prophet of Kruphix Banned*

Prophet of Kruphix is ridiculous. That is all. :)