Everything We Learned In Magic: The Gathering's Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate Debut
Ahead of its June 16 launch, Wizards of the Coast has kicked off Magic: The Gathering's Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate preview season with a full debut of the major mechanics we'll be seeing in the set and a few famous faces we could find in booster packs.
RELATED: MTG: Everything You Need To Know About Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate's Preview SeasonLike 2020's original Commander Legends, Battle for Baldur's Gate is a made-for-draft set based on the Commander format. In the debut, we saw the two brand-new mechanics, Backgrounds and initiative, as well as confirmation we'll seeing Adventures make a return for the first time since 2019's Throne of Eldraine.
As it's a set built for Commander, which can use mechanics from right across the game's history, Battle for Baldur's Gate will use a large number of older mechanics to varying extents. However, a few were singled out, including the two new mechanics.
The first new mechanic are Backgrounds. A new type of enchantment, Backgrounds serve as Battle for Baldur's Gate's take on partners. If your Commander has "Choose a Background" in its rules text, you can run it and a Background enchantment as co-commanders. Like partner in the original Commander Legends, the goal of Backgrounds is to provide more flexibility when drafting your deck, as your deck's colour identity will be based on both your creature and your Background.
Most Backgrounds provide buffs to your commander, such as Criminal Past giving it menace and +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. However, there is also one Background enchantment creature, which is the colourless Faceless One. Faceless One can serve as both a Background and a creature and is this set's
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