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Game Style: 1v1 setup designed to cut out multi-player politics and long game times.Deck Size: Exactly 100 cards (singleton: only one copy of any card outside of basic lands), including your legendary commander(s).Life Total: Players start at 30 life.First Player Rule: The player who goes first skips their initial draw step to balance the turn-one advantage.Damage Win Conditions: 21 commander damage still results in a loss, and 10 infect counters remain fatal.
100-card singleton decks, 30 starting life, and a community-driven ban list.
Cali Commander Rules:
Starting life: 30
Commander damage:21
Poison counters:10
First player, turn one: No Draw
Format policy
The ban list belongs to the players.
Every Cali Commander decision is made by community vote in The Collectors Den Discord at a 50% threshold. Vote 1 shaped the first official local list, and the complete aggregate results are public.
The complete banned list
Everything banned in Cali Commander.
Copy list
This is the whole list — you do not need to know the official Commander banned list to read it. Cali Commander starts from Commander's 42 banned cards, then the community votes on them. The deck checker and deck builder enforce everything below automatically.
Banned cards (31)
Ancestral Recall
Balance
Black Lotus
Channel
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
Fastbond
Flash
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
Griselbrand
Hullbreacher
Iona, Shield of Emeria
Karakas
Leovold, Emissary of Trest
Limited Resources
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Nadu, Winged Wisdom
Paradox Engine
Recurring Nightmare
Sundering Titan
Sylvan Primordial
Time Vault
Time Walk
Tolarian Academy
Trade Secrets
Upheaval
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