Battleground Games & Hobbies in Plainville MA Commander*
Dates: May 31st through August 9th
Time: 7:30pm - 10:30
Fee: A
$10.00 Entry Fee will be required to participate in the league. A
$2.00 weekly fee will also be charged and added to the final prize pool.
After paying the one time Entry Fee a player will be able to chose between receiving an $8.00 store credit or two booster packs. The Banned List and rules will be from www.mtgcommander.neto Ancestral Recall
o Balance
o Biorhythm
o Black Lotus
o Coalition Victory
o Channel
o Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
o Fastbond
o Gifts Ungiven
o Kokusho, the Evening Star
o Karakas
o Library of Alexandria
o Limited Resources
o Metalworker | o Mox Sapphire, Ruby, Pearl, Emerald and Jet
o Painter's Servant
o Panoptic Mirror
o Protean Hulk
o Recurring Nightmare
o Staff of Domination
o Sway of the Stars
o Time Vault
o Time Walk
o Tinker
o Tolarian Academy
o Upheaval
o Yawgmoth's Bargain |
Additionally, the following are the banned commanders:o Braids, Cabal Minion
o Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
o Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
League Rules:• At least 3 league players must be in a game to count. League scoring is limited to 5 games per week.
• Games will be multiplayer and played until a winner is determined based on the linked rules.
• All games will be free-for-all – some weeks may include Archenemy or Planechase cards (TBA).
• A scoring system will be used to encourage more casual play
• Players will track their own scores on the provided score sheets as well as vote for other players each week.
Prizes:• Top 4 – Store credit
• Best player – special prize
• Worst player – special prize
• Best overall deck – special prize
• Winner – name on Commander league plaque with the winner of first season.
Scoring System:-5 points: Demonstrating a game winning/controlling combo - after combo, player exits game and game continues from previous state. (Players who control a combo and leave the game without affecting the current board state will not lose points)
-4 points: Eliminating a player before turn 5
-2 points: Failing to cast your general during a game– unless you never had the mana necessary to do so
+5points: • Winning via an alternate win condition as stated on a card (ex. Barren Glory)
• Resetting the game – removing all non-land or all permanents from play. (Ex. Karn’s Ultimate)
+3 points: • Milling your entire deck without losing or Milling an opponent
• Winning the game at 40 life/ Killing an opponent from 40 life in 1 turn
• Play the 5th spell of a turn
• Level up a creature to its max level
• Control +3 of every permanent type (Land, Planeswalker, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment)
o & +1 point if a player controls +3 tokens
o & +1 point if a player controls +3 opponents permanents
+2 points:• Preventing a wrath effect (i.e. Wrath of God, Nevinyrral’s Disk, etc)
• Game lasts more than 10 turns
• Controlling an effect that allows all players to play more than 1 land per turn
• Eliminating a player
• Drawing more than 10 cards in a turn
• Control +20 power of creatures
+ 1 point:• Casting your general
• Copying another players card
• Gaining more than 10 life in 1 turn
• Drawing more than 2 cards in 1 turn (cannot be combined with Draw 10)
• Eliminating a player on someone else’s turn
• Donating a card to an opponent
• Gaining control of an opponents cards
• Save opponent from elimination
• Playing each week
• Wrath effect
• Control +3 of a permanent type excluding lands
• +1 point playing games with different generals (try something new) – store has decks available for those that only have one deck
