What are the Commander Game Changers?

Game Changers are a key aspect of the new bracket system currently being tested by Wizards of the Coast.

These powerful cards have a significant impact on Commander games, whether by allowing players to accumulate resources rapidly, altering gameplay in ways that some find frustrating, restricting others from fully participating, enabling highly efficient searches for top-tier cards, or being commanders that often encourage strategies that detract from more casual play.

  • Bracket 1 (Exhibition) and Bracket 2 (Core) decks typically steer clear of game-defining cards.
  • Bracket 3 (Upgraded) decks may include up to three of them.
  • Bracket 4 (Optimized) and Bracket 5 (cEDH) decks have no restrictions on their use.

For a clear overview of the current Game Changers as of February 11, 2025, we have categorized them by type:

Artifacts (9)
1 Bolas’s Citadel
1 Chrome Mox
1 Grim Monolith
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Diamond
1 Panoptic Mirror
1 The One Ring
1 Trinisphere

Creatures (14)
1 Braids, Cabal Minion
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Drannith Magistrate
1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
1 Opposition Agent
1 Seedborn Muse
1 Tergrid, God of Fright
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
1 Winota, Joiner of Forces
1 Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow

Planeswalker (1)
1 Narset, Parter of Veils

Enchantments (9)
1 Aura Shards
1 Food Chain
1 Humility
1 Necropotence
1 Rhystic Study
1 Smothering Tithe
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Trouble in Pairs
1 Underworld Breach
Lands (7)
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Field of the Dead
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Serra’s Sanctum
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Instants (10)
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Crop Rotation
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Teferi’s Protection
1 Vampiric Tutor

Sorceries (7)
1 Coalition Victory
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Expropriate
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jeska’s Will
1 Natural Order
1 Sway of the Stars

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