And the salient point is that the RC has already discussed it and we have no current plans to change the rules on who can be commanders.
If it is not a problem, could you please state reasons for not allowing them?
I mean, flavour points, gameplay-wise, are they broken, or so.
Were there people in the committee who wanted to make them playable or you all just unanimously voted no?
And the salient point is that the RC has already discussed it and we have no current plans to change the rules on who can be commanders.
If it is not a problem, could you please state reasons for not allowing them?
I mean, flavour points, gameplay-wise, are they broken, or so.
Were there people in the committee who wanted to make them playable or you all just unanimously voted no?
For the same reason Legendary Artifacts, Enchantments, and Lands aren't commanders - because they aren't a Legendary Creature? Seriously, though, some planeswalkers would be absolutely disgusting in the command zone.
And the salient point is that the RC has already discussed it and we have no current plans to change the rules on who can be commanders.
If it is not a problem, could you please state reasons for not allowing them?
I mean, flavour points, gameplay-wise, are they broken, or so.
Were there people in the committee who wanted to make them playable or you all just unanimously voted no?
The short version is that they're not Legendary Creatures. The slightly longer version is in addition to that, there are a number of them that would need to be banned. Repeatable PWs are in some cases quite broken, even with a commander tax. We don't really discuss who voted which way on the RC--but I'll tell you that this didn't even come to a vote. We talked about it and agreed it wasn't a direction we wanted to go.
The short version is that they're not Legendary Creatures. The slightly longer version is in addition to that, there are a number of them that would need to be banned. Repeatable PWs are in some cases quite broken, even with a commander tax. We don't really discuss who voted which way on the RC--but I'll tell you that this didn't even come to a vote. We talked about it and agreed it wasn't a direction we wanted to go.
This thread is ultimately a rules question and being that I think Sheldon answered it very elegantly as well as because I don't want further discussion in this thread to confuse anyone I am going to opt to close this thread. If anyone is interested in discussing if planeswalkers "should" be playable as a commander rather than if they will be, please feel free to open a new thread more oriented towards discussion rather than asking a clarification of the rules.
Thanks Sheldon for your thoughts, I think it will make a good last comment for this thread.
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No. Currently, the official rules only allow for legendary creatures that are not on the banlist, but a handfull of planeswalkers (all from Commander 2014) include language on the card itself indicating they can be used as a commander: Nahiri, the Lithomancer, Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Daretti, Scrap Savant, and Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury.
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I mean, flavour points, gameplay-wise, are they broken, or so.
Were there people in the committee who wanted to make them playable or you all just unanimously voted no?
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The short version is that they're not Legendary Creatures. The slightly longer version is in addition to that, there are a number of them that would need to be banned. Repeatable PWs are in some cases quite broken, even with a commander tax. We don't really discuss who voted which way on the RC--but I'll tell you that this didn't even come to a vote. We talked about it and agreed it wasn't a direction we wanted to go.
Thanks Sheldon for your thoughts, I think it will make a good last comment for this thread.
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