While you dont need the in-depth knowledge of a judge, you should be both familiar with and up to date on the following aspects of Magic: The Gathering : Rules of how to play The sanctioned formats promoted by WotC (Commander, Standard, Pioneer, etc.) Top decks, strategies, and cards within sanctioned formats This will help you not only understand why certain cards are desirable compared to others, it will also hone your instinct for what might make a good card in the future
+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature
If you're the nonviolent type, plenty of other chaotic commanders do their best work outside of combat
For a single instance of damage, you can create a 2/2 flier for hard-to-block damage
(6/10/2022) If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities
Updated on November 29, 2023, by Johnny Garcia : There are many sets being released on a yearly basis, and since Commander allows for every card in all sets to be legal (barring illegal and banned cards), the card pool is the biggest of almost every other format
