![]() It can have different colors than your commander creature, and your color identity is determined by the color pips on both your “choose a background” commander creature and your commander background. No special treatment here! Can Your Background Have a Different Color Identity? What About with Choose a Background?īackgrounds that you play as part of your 99 still need to follow your commander’s color identity to be played in the deck.īut if you’re playing with a “choose a background” commander creature and have a background card as a second commander, the background acts just like a partner commander would. They still have to follow your commander’s color identity, of course, just like the rest of the 99. You can absolutely play with background cards in your 99. Can You Play with Backgrounds in Your 99? ![]() If they’re just part of your 99, they live in your library just like the rest of your non-commander cards. Do Backgrounds Start in the Command Zone?īackgrounds only start in the command zone if you have one as a second commander. They work together, but they’re not the same. Choose a Backgroundīackgrounds are an enchantment card subtype while “choose a background” is a static ability on some legendary creatures that allows you to play a background card as a second commander. And the colorless background, Faceless One, is actually an enchantment creature that also has “choose a background,” so it falls into both categories. 27 of them are mono-colored cards with five each in white, black, and green while blue and red each have six. Black and green feature five backgrounds each while white, blue, and red each only have four.Īnd in case you were wondering, there are 28 legendary creatures in the set that allow you to choose a background as a second commander. All of the backgrounds are mono-colored save one colorless exception. ![]() There are 23 enchantment backgrounds that can boost your commanders in some pretty interesting ways. The new card subtype was introduced with Commander Legends: Baldur’s Gate. The history of backgrounds in Magic is short and sweet. Your commander creature needs to have the “choose a background” static ability to do this, which of course is only present on select commanders in Commander Legends: Baldur’s Gate. You can either play them in your 99 (if they fit in your commander’s color identity, of course), or you can play a background as a second commander.īut just like partner commanders, you can’t have a background as a second commander with just any old card. There are two ways for you use background cards. These are tailor-made for the Commander format since their entire purpose is to boost your commander. ![]() “Backgrounds” are a new type of legendary enchantment that give your commander some kind of bonus or extra ability when they’re on the ‘field. Acolyte of Bahamut | Illustration by Kai Carpenter ![]()
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