Additional Rule Changes & Moving Forward

After much debate, there have been more (and hopefully the final) changes to the rules.

1. Your commander is a rare or mythic non-legendary creatures.
This was changed from being any uncommon creature, legend or not. The main reason for this change has to do with the rest of the deck; it didn't make much sense for a good chunk of your deck being the same rarity as your commander. And the for it being a non-legendary is because your commander should be a "no-body" who has yet to make their name in the game yet.
Allowing mythics required a lot of arm-twisting to me, but a ban list for certain mythics is an extremely strong possibility, I'm looking at YOU Blightsteel Colossus. And also a majority of the mythics that seem really powerful were once rare anyway (Snapcaster and Tarmagoyf to name the two biggest); so rather than ban an entire rarity, we decided to pick and choose as things developed.

2. Up to 20 uncommons are allowed in your deck.
This has been upped from 14 and felt necessary. When I picked 14, it was just an arbitrary number so bumping this up a bit wasn't too much of a big deal. It was discussed to abolish this completely and allow any number of uncommon cards, but that just seemed to open up an even bigger can of worms. Plus, I find it good to have restrictions that you need to work within which help allow for more creativity.

3. If at least one half of a non-legendary rare/mythic is a creature, it is a legal commander.
While only one card currently falls under this rule, I felt that it was good to create for the future. I enjoy Pauper EDH, but the fact that I couldn't use Autumnal Gloom was very disappointing for me.

And those should be the final rule changes until we work on a ban list. Expect articles focusing on actually playing Peasant EDH in the near future.

~Zuty

Major Rule Change & Homebrewed Commanders

The first announcement pertains to the rarity rule. For the purposes of simplicity and to lessen confusion, the rarity rule is being removed. From now on, any card printed at uncommon and common is allowed no matter what its most recent printed rarity is. The rules and commander page will be updated to reflect this.

The other announcement is that I will be compiling a list of "homebrewed" commanders. These are uncommon creature cards that were created by the Magic Set Editor (MSE) community and have been peer reviewed. The main purpose of this is to fill in any color gaps; mostly the wedge colors which have about one uncommon creature per each wedge. Depending on how this goes, this could also lead to more of these commanders being created by myself and other members of the community. I believe that the community is fully capable of creating some amazing commanders that will be fair, balanced, and help fill in niches that are currently unoccupied. The use of homebrewed commanders would be strictly house ruled; either your group or the person you are playing against is okay with you using your homebrewed commander or they are not, this isn't an enforced rule.

Stay tuned for more updates along the way.

~Zuty