So, for Commander Jumpstart, our packs will consist of 30 cards. I'll only highlight a few key differences needed for our new, mish-mash format: the resulting deck is 60 cards as opposed to 40, and a given deck is allowed to have more than one of a card. Typal themes are fine, but it's important to keep them light unless you have a lot of Shapeshifter cards in the packs.Ĭommander Draft is not the same as regular Draft formats. This is important because they're intended to be mashed up with a random deck and shouldn't be too parasitic. Jumpstart themes are traditionally flavor-based with a light mechanical throughline ( Jumpstart 2020 had Angel packs with only two cards that cared about you controlling the namesake creature). There are different ways this goes: players may just pick up two at random or grab three and then pick the two they prefer. Jumpstart is a Limited format where players take two 20-card pre-constructed packs (usually 12 spells and 8 lands) and shuffle them together to make one 40-card deck to play against one another. In this article, I'll talk about why one might build a Commander Jumpstart Cube, how to best go about it, and what to consider in the process! Let's take command and jumpstart those cubes! What Are the Ingredients Here? I love this idea for Limited environments! It does something cool for a format I had been bouncing in my head for eons: Commander Jumpstart! While I've been working on making a Commander Legends Jumpstart Cube on and off, the possibility of widening the options to any mono-colored commander has really gotten my Biome Brain rolling. For this set, they settled on an interesting choice: all mono-colored legendary creatures in the set are treated as having partner when drafting. Drafting allows for players to pivot colors, but that's harder with Commander rules in the mix. This set had a potential problem: what to do about colors. It's been three years since both forms of play came about, and now we're getting Commander Masters, an all-reprint Commander Draft format.

In 2020, Wizards of the Coast introduced two of my favorite products of all time: Commander Legends and Jumpstart. The first ever Commander Draft format and the first ever 'draft without drafting' gameplay, both of which are ripe for cube-lovers and those sorts of Magic players who enjoy crafting not just decks but biomes and environments.

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