Daybreak Games has announced the launch of the highly-anticipated Commander Masters set on Magic: The Gathering Online. As of August 3rd, players can dive into the world of Commander Masters, one day ahead of the tabletop release.
How to Collect and Play Commander Masters
Boosters and Events
Each 20-card CMM booster pack will sell for just $4.99 USD in the MTGO Store starting after downtime on Thursday. There are two rares and/or mythics per pack, plus a non-common of any rarity and a premium foil of any rarity.
Commander Masters Keeper Draft League
Our experiment with four-player, single-game pods continues with tweaks. The Phantom League will remain at 4 Event Tickets, plus we are dropping the price of the Keeper League from 15 Event Tickets to 12! Like previous multiplayer leagues, prizes are based on how many votes each player receives from the game. Each player gets one vote, and the game’s winner receives two bonus votes for themself – a maximum of five votes can be earned by one player. Votes are cast as players are eliminated or when the game ends, though the decision can be deferred if players want to watch the rest of the action before choosing.
The Commander Masters Keeper Draft League will run from the end of downtime on Thursday until our next downtime on August 30. Here are the event details:
- Entry Options: 12 Event Tickets, 3 Commander Masters (CMM) boosters and 2 Event Tickets, or 120 Play Points
- Prizes (based on player votes with two bonus votes to the game winner):
- 5 votes: 4 CMM boosters + 140 Play Points
- 4 votes: 4 CMM boosters + 80 Play Points
- 3 votes: 2 CMM boosters + 80 Play Points
- 2 votes: 1 CMM booster + 80 Play Points
- 1 vote: 60 Play Points
Commander Masters Phantom Draft League
The Commander Masters Phantom Draft League offers an Entry Option of 4 Event Tickets or 40 Play Points. In this format, players will draft 3 Commander Masters boosters, but cards opened in Phantom events aren’t added to players’ Collections.
Prizes in the Commander Masters Phantom Draft League are also based on player votes with one bonus vote going to the game winner:
- 5 votes: 1 CMM booster + 90 Play Points
- 4 votes: 1 CMM booster + 70 Play Points
- 3 votes: 1 CMM booster + 50 Play Points
- 2 votes: 40 Play Points
- 1 vote: 20 Play Points
Don’t forget – our new Freeform with Commander room is the perfect place to play with your CMM keeper draft deck in a casual setting once your League match is complete!
The Commander Masters Draft Format
For those of you who just enjoyed Commander Legends draft, Commander Masters draft will look very similar: draft 2 cards at a time, build a 60-card deck including either a single commander or two with the partner ability, play only cards with your commanders’ color identity, multiple copies of cards are OK, and each player starts with 40 life.
An additional wrinkle unique to CMM Limited is that colorless & single-color legendary creatures have the Partner ability stapled onto them – keep this in mind during the draft! As a last resort, the Prismatic Piper is an available partner if you are short a color (or two) in the Command Zone.
Commander Masters Commander Decks
Four heavy-hitting themes are covered in CMM’s suite of Commander decks – Slivers, planeswalkers, Eldrazi, and enchantments! Each deck is $39.99 USD in the MTGO Store and includes 10 cards that are new to the game plus a strong set of reprints – check out the decklists here. The decks are:
- Eldrazi Unbound (colorless)
- Enduring Enchantments (white-black-green)
- Planeswalker Party (red-blue-white)
- Sliver Swarm (five-color)
With the Commander Masters set now available on Magic: The Gathering Online, players can immerse themselves in exciting new gameplay and enjoy the thrill of strategic battles without the pressure of sales pitches and marketing tactics. Get ready to explore the depths of Commander Masters and experience the thrill of the game like never before.
Platform: Microsoft Windows
