Commander Variation Formats

Dragon's Egg

This is a Commander format that is inspired by the card Dragon's Egg. 

Deck building: Uses the same criteria as Commander for deck construction. 

Special Rules: 

You start the game with 10 life. After shuffling up your deck and having an opponent cut the deck, count off the top 30 cards, keeping them in order and unseen. These 30 cards are your starting deck. 

Put the remaining cards aside, but keep them in order. 

You will play the game as a normal commander game now with a few exceptions. When you die or would lose the game, you remove completely from the game any cards in your hand, graveyard or library. Now return the rest of your library that was removed at the beginning of the game. This is your new library consisting of 67-69 cards depending on commanders and companions. Set your life to 30. If it was your turn, your turn ends and play resumes. This is called Hatching. 

If a player would use any infinite combo ,or instant win, that would win the game for them, if any players are still in their Egg form (The first 30 card library and 10 life) they hatch and play continues. The infinite combo stops once the players hatch, but if the combo can be restarted, the player can still win the game outright. 

If the player playing an infinite combo to win is still in Egg form, they hatch and play continues. 


Players only lose if they have already hatched and a condition exists that would cause them to lose (reduce life to 0, have to draw on an empty library, someone's instant win condition, etc) 


Wizards Tower

Deck Building: Build four commander decks using four different commanders that use the same colors. Shuffle all four decks into one large deck. 

Play: Put the new quad commander deck in the center of the table. Players roll to see who goes first, then draw one card at a time in play order until all players have 7 cards. 

There are no mulligans. 

There is one shared deck and one shared graveyard

Any card referring to the player or opponents library affects the shared library. 

Any card that refers to any graveyard, refers to the common graveyard


Still Under Construction