Can any legendary vehicle be your Commander?

Yes, now any legendary Vehicle or legendary Spacecraft with printed Power/Toughness (P/T) on its front face can be your Commander in Magic: The Gathering, thanks to a rules update tied to the Edge of Eternities set (released August 2025), retroactively making iconic ships like Parhelion II and The World Ark playable as leaders. This opens up fun new deckbuilding possibilities for artifact-focused, vehicle-themed, or colorless strategies.
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Can a legendary vehicle be your Commander?

Yes, absolutely! Starting with Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set (released mid-2025), all Legendary Vehicles and the new Legendary Spacecrafts with printed Power/Toughness are legal to be your Commander, allowing for new deck archetypes around iconic ships like Weatherlight or RMS Titanic, notes this Facebook post and this article from Curiosity Video Games. 
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Can anything legendary be a Commander?

Players choose a legendary creature to be their commander. However, several abilities have the potential to expand the options for what may be chosen as a commander. Some legendary non-creature cards (usually planeswalkers) have an ability allowing them to be chosen as a commander.
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Can legendary artifacts be used as commanders?

In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities.
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Can you use vehicles as a Commander?

Yes, in Magic: The Gathering's Commander format, all Legendary Vehicles and Spacecrafts can now be commanders, thanks to a major rules update in mid-2025, allowing players to build entire decks around these powerful artifact creatures, like Parhelion II or Grond, the Gatebreaker, as long as they have power/toughness on their front face. This was a retroactive change, making many existing vehicles legal and opening up new deck-building possibilities.
 
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What can be my Commander?

In Magic: The Gathering's Commander format, a commander can be any Legendary Creature or a card that explicitly states, "This card can be your Commander," such as certain Planeswalkers, Vehicles, or Legendary Enchantments, with pairs allowed if they have Partner abilities, all defining the deck's color identity and starting in the Command Zone.
 
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Can Dawnsire be your Commander?

Yes, Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought, a legendary spacecraft, can be a commander in Magic: The Gathering due to a recent rule change with the Edge of Eternities set that allows legendary Vehicles and Spacecraft with power and toughness to lead a deck. This opens up colorless Commander options beyond just artifacts and Eldrazi, letting you build around its massive 20 power for surprise wins.
 
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What is the legendary rule in Commander?

704.5j If two or more legendary permanents with the same name are controlled by the same player, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners' graveyards. This is called the “legend rule.”
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What is the point of playing EDH?

The main consensus is that EDH is a fun multiplayer past time, where you can test your jank. You do not play to win, you play to see how your deck interacts with itself and with the others most of the time.
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Who is the most powerful artifact Commander?

Urza, Lord High Artificer. It's no surprise that Urza, Lord High Artificer tops this list. This commander comes in with a powerful Construct token and turns all your artifacts into Mox Sapphire. More importantly, it's an incredible combo and stax engine.
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How do you bypass the legend rule?

There are also two indirect ways to bypass the legend rule: creating a copy of a legendary creature under a different name (Lazav, Dimir Mastermind) and creating a copy of a legendary creature that isn't legendary (Helm of the Host).
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Is 40 creatures too many in Commander?

You'll want as many of the chosen creature types as possible if you decide to run a typal deck. Depending on the creature type, you could run at least 30 to 40 or more creatures in the build. Of course, this also depends on the utility of each creature you include.
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What is the rule 903.8 in Magic: the Gathering?

903.8. A player may cast a commander they own from the command zone. A commander cast from the command zone costs an additional {2} for each previous time the player casting it has cast it from the command zone that game. This additional cost is informally known as the “commander tax.”
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Can any legendary be a Commander?

Your Commander must be a Legendary Creature or the card needs to specifically state "{Card Name} can be used as your Commander". It must be a legendary creature or one of the select few planeswalker that say specifically they can be your commander.
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Does the legend rule apply immediately?

It's immediately. It happens before priority is passed. And you can't maintain priority as it checks before then too. You also can't use another effect that would allow you to sacrifice a permanent either.
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Why can spacecraft be commanders?

They are artifacts that can become creatures after their Station cost is paid. The panel decided to change a rule to make the Spacecrafts playable: All legendary vehicles and spacecraft are allowed in the Command Zone.
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What is the 8x8 rule in EDH?

The 8x8 Theory for EDH/Commander

Start with your Commander and 35 lands, choose 8 effects you wish to see, and then pick 8 cards for each effect, yielding a clean 64 cards. If you would like to support us, please go to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/The8x8Theory and make a pledge!
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Is playing MTG good for your brain?

“Magic does a fantastic job of exercising your brain,” one long-time player writes, noting that it teaches reading comprehension, communication skills, strategic thinking, mental math, and planning ahead coolstuffinc.com.
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How many lands is too much in EDH?

The proper number of lands in edh is 33 - 1 for each mana rock/dork. Ouf i play between 32 and 38. 32 is for mono green/ simic/ golgari/ selesnya/ gruul. 33 is for simic/ golgari/ selesnya/ gruul/ abzan/ temur/ bant/ naya/ sultai 34 any 4 colors w green.
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Can you use a legendary vehicle as a Commander?

Yes, absolutely! Starting with Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set (mid-2025), all legendary Vehicles (and the new legendary Spacecrafts) with printed Power/Toughness boxes are officially allowed as Commanders, opening up new deck-building options like Parhelion II, Weatherlight, and Esika's Chariot as commanders, following a rules update by the Commander Rules Committee. 
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How many Legendaries can you have in Commander?

There is no limit to the number of legendary cards you can put in any deck. In commander formats, you are restricted to one COPY of any given card that isn't a basic land.
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What cards ignore legend rule?

  • Brothers Yamazaki.
  • Cadric, Soul Kindler.
  • Mirror Box.
  • Mirror Gallery.
  • Sakashima of a Thousand Faces.
  • Sliver Gravemother.
  • Spider-Verse.
  • The Master, Multiplied.
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Who is the world's best Commander?

10 great military generals from history
  • Alexander the Great. Born in 356 BC, Alexander the Great ascended the throne at the age of 20 following the assassination of his father, Philip II of Macedon. ...
  • Attila the Hun. ...
  • Saladin. ...
  • Genghis Khan. ...
  • Erwin Rommel.
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Why can Grist be a Commander?

Well, Grist is a 1/1 Insect creature when it isn't on the battlefield, therefore making it a creature in the command zone.
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Is a 2 color Commander deck viable?

Two colors is absolutely fine in commander. I play a couple of mono color decks and they play fine as well. Don't worry about trying to be hyper competitive you can always work up to that later if you really want to. Just have fun with what you're comfortable with to start.
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