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Hybrid Cards Explanation

Even though hybrid cards can be cast with only a single colour, they aren't a single colour. When you have Balefire Liege on the battlefield and cast a Boros Reckoner, you get to bolt an opponent and gain 3 life, regardless of whether you're in a mono-white deck, mono-red deck, or a RW deck. Commander isn't about what cards you can cast, it's a deckbuilding restriction on colour identity, and Boros Reckoner is always Red and White, even if you're only planning to cast it with a single colour.

Color identity is about what colors are required to cast or activate you. There are plenty of cards that can become a color that is different from what cast them (Caldera Kavu, Kavu Chameleon, Painter’s Servant, Rainbow Crow, Scrapbasket, Spiritmonger,Wild Mongrel, etc.) that don’t require you playing a five-color commander.

Activate Balefire Liege Boros (R/W) Boros Reckoner Caldera Kavu Cast Color Identity Colors Commander Hybrid Kavu Kavu Chameleon Rainbow Crow Red Scrapbasket Spiritmonger White Wild Mongrel

Hybrid Cards Discussion

(Glyn) "That can already happen right now. Gauntlet of Might can be played in any deck along with an Alloy Golem and a Scrapbasket. Both can get a bonus for being red. This exception happening should not override the basic tenet of hybrid representing “or”. At least, that’s what I believe." But those are colorless artifacts benefitting from a colorless artifact, not a 2-color card benefitting from another 2-color card because it has a second color in what should be a one-color deck.

I don’t see the difference. In each case, there are cards skirting the color identity rules. Why is one perfectly fine and the other some abomination?

Alloy Golem Artifacts Color Identity Colorless Colors Gauntlet of Might Golem Hybrid Red Rules Scrapbasket

Commander Hybrid Mana

(Glyn) On Commander + Hybrid: As I understand it, under your rule, a mono-green Omnath deck could run Morselhoarder and Runes of the Deus and Morselhoarder would still get both buffs. This sort of interaction, even if it's rare, definitely feels like it violates the spirit of the color identity rule--a mono-green deck is gaining a buff from a card being red. Why do you think this sort of interplay should be allowed? Or, alternatively, what would you do to prevent it?

That can already happen right now. Gauntlet of Might can be played in any deck along with an Alloy Golem and a Scrapbasket. Both can get a bonus for being red. This exception happening should not override the basic tenet of hybrid representing “or”. At least, that’s what I believe. Note that I’m just giving my personal opinion (not Wizards) and have no input into the Commander format.

Alloy Golem Color Identity Colors Commander Gauntlet of Might Golem Green Hybrid Morselhoarder Rares Red Rules Runes of the Deus Scrapbasket Spirit

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