Magic: The Gathering — Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate: Party Time

What is Magic: The Gathering — Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate: Party Time

This expansion for Magic: The Gathering reintroduces the Commander Draft format originally seen in the first Commander Legends and fuses it with the Dungeons & Dragons theme of Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, using the Forgotten Realms city of Baldur's Gate as the setting.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate is designed to be drafted. Each player opens a 20-card booster pack, selects two cards from it, and then passes the pack to the player sitting next to them. They then pick two more cards from the pack they've been handed, and so on, going around the table until all cards are picked. This is repeated with a second booster pack, and again with a third, until everyone has picked a total of 60 cards. Players then choose a commander (or a commander/background pair, if the commander has the Choose a Background ability) from among the cards they drafted, add any number of basic lands, and build a 60-card deck matching the color identity of their commander(s). Then everyone shuffles up their decks and battles in a free-for-all! (A larger pod of drafters splits into two groups first.)

The set is sold in draft boosters (individually or in displays of 24), set boosters (individually or in displays of 18), collector boosters (individually or in displays of 12), and bundles, as well as three-pack prerelease kits, which were made available a week in advance of the set's full release. In addition, four 100-card tie-in Commander decks were released alongside the main set.

Game details

Players

4–8

Age

+13

Duration

—

Difficulty

Expert

Type

Expansion

Year

2022

Mechanics

Bribery · Closed Drafting · Deck Construction

Categories

Adventure · Bluffing · Card Game

Designer

Aaron Forsythe

Publisher

Wizards of the Coast