Obelisk of Alara

Commander Identity Limits

If I play Richard Garfield, Ph.D. in Commander, can I play cards outside my commander's identity with his ability (like a Staff of Nin played as an Obelisk of Alara)? How about playing cards on the ban list (like Jace's Sanctum as a Gift's Ungiven)?

Richard Garfield PhD can only play cards legal in the format you’re playing. I will extrapolate that to mean only legal in your color identity.

Bannings Color Identity Colors Commander Format Legality Format Legality Jace's Sanctum Obelisk of Alara Richard Garfield Richard Garfield, Ph.D. Staff of Nin

Commander Color Identity

From what I understand, your problem with the Commander rules is that decks are only allowed to use creatures outside of the color identity. If that were not there, then any deck could have cards of any color in their decks, and therefore they can be cheated into play. For example, an Emrakul deck could use Quicksilver Amulet to play a Progenitus. The upside is that a mono colored deck can play Obelisk of Alara (and others like it). Do you think that tradeoff is worth a rule change?

I don’t want Commander decks cheating other color creatures into play. I just want cards that can honestly be cast in a monocolor deck to be able to be played in a monocolor Commander deck.

Cast Color Identity Colors Commander Creatures Monocolor Monocolor Obelisk of Alara Progenitus Quicksilver Amulet Rules

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