While players may want to mix cards from Battle for Baldur’s Gate and Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, they’ll only be able to progress through one dungeon at a time you can’t have more than one active dungeon, and you cannot access the Undercity with cards from the older set. Another player can then ”take the initiative” by dealing combat damage to you with a creature. When you play a card with this mechanic-like the Aarakocra Sneak, who triggers it upon entering the battlefield-you trigger the next effect on the branching paths of the Undercity dungeon card. However this variation interacts with only one specific Dungeon card, the Undercity. Meanwhile Take the Initiative expands the Venture into the Dungeon mechanic from last year’s set. The Raised By Giants Background, for instance, increases your Commander’s base power and toughness to 10/10 and makes them Giants.īackgrounds buff your Commander, while taking the initiative is a unique variant of dungeons from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. These cards are themed toward specific origin stories for D&D characters, and typically enhance your primary Commander. The Backstory mechanic is catered to Commander Legends, allowing a player to choose a second Commander-specifically a Legendary Enchantment with the subtype background. And of course, it wouldn’t be a D&D-inspired set without some dice rolling, so some cards will feature the Roll a D20 mechanic.Īs for new mechanics, MTG Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate will introduce two which will seem familiar to anyone who’s played D&D. To further play into the RPG feel, the Adventure mechanic from Throne of Eldraine returns, grafting a spell onto a creature card and bringing some more high-fantasy or fairy tale energy. (However, as with Bahamut and the other characters who appeared as planeswalkers in the previous set, they do not canonically possess the planeswalking gift.) Rulebook frame variant cards return as well and are no longer limited to creature cards, appearing on spells like Fireball and Lightning Bolt. Picking up where Adventures in the Forgotten Realms left off, Battle for Baldur’s Gate will feature more familiar faces from various Dungeons & Dragons media-like Elminster, Minsc, and Boo, who appear as Commander-eligible planeswalker cards. MTG Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate will feature more Planeswalker versions of familiar characters and Rulebook frame variants.

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