For today\u2019s tip, I want to talk about a cool interaction in Commander, the hugely-popular multiplayer format where each player chooses a legendary creature, called a \u201ccommander,\u201d to lead his or her deck. In this format, each player\u2019s commander is subject to a special replacement effect: when a player\u2019s commander would be put into a graveyard or exiled, that player can choose to put their commander in the command zone instead.<\/p>\n
This protects your precious commander from most shenanigans…but not from the fearsome Eldrazi!<\/p>\n
The key point is that It That Betrays<\/a>\u2019s triggered ability lets it grab a sacrificed creature from the first zone that creature goes to. \u00a0Normally, this is the graveyard. \u00a0But suppose you\u2019ve summoned \u00a0It That Betrays to your side. \u00a0If I sacrifice my commander and use its special replacement effect to put it in the command zone instead of the graveyard, my commander never hits the graveyard at all. \u00a0As a result, the command zone is the first zone my sacrificed commander visits, and It That Betrays<\/a> will fish my commander right back out of the command zone onto the battlefield — under your control! \u00a0What a betrayal indeed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Paul Baranay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Om nom nom! is coming to get you — and your commander! For today\u2019s tip, I want to talk about a cool interaction in Commander, the hugely-popular multiplayer format where each player chooses a legendary creature, called a \u201ccommander,\u201d to lead his or her deck. In this format, each player\u2019s commander is subject to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,32,85,33,8],"tags":[880],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-multiplayer","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-triggeredabilities","tag-it-that-betrays","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}