Magic: The Gathering and D&D join forces for Commander Legends - Battle for Baldur's Gate

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Magic: The Gathering is teaming up again with Dungeons & Dragons for a new set of cards. Commander Legends - Battle for Baldur’s Gate is based on perhaps the most famous city in Dungeons & Dragon’s “Forgotten Realms” setting.

A sequel to the 2020 Commander Legends set, it will bring the tabletop flavor of Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering on June 10.

This upcoming Magic: The Gathering set is for use in the Commander playstyle, but it could also be used in casual games with friends. This means that they will not be allowed in Standard, Pioneer, or Modern in terms of legality. They are playable in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper.

Set in the world of Forgotten Realms, it’s the second Magic: The Gathering set to take advantage of this particular Dungeons & Dragons world. Though the set releases on June 10, pre-release events will start on June 3. Though the set isn’t legal in Standard, MTG Arena will get some love.

There will be an “Alchemy Horizons Baldur’s Gate” update, which will add hundreds of cards to the digital-only setting. As for what fans can expect in this set, many legendary characters that made Forgotten Realms famous are here, as well as a few returning game mechanics.

One popular mechanic returning in Magic: The Gathering’s new set is Adventure, a two-part card: part spell, part creature. Players can cast the spell part of the card first and then the creature second. Casting the creature first means that spell cannot be cast.

An example of this is the Monster Manual artifact. It can be cast for three mana to cast “Zoological Study.” The caster mills five cards and then return a creature card they milled that way to their hand. Otherwise, it’s a 4-cost artifact that can put a creature card from the