Get Ready for Modern Brawl!

We believe Modern Brawl to be a way for players familiar with Commander to try their hand at a 1-v-1 competitive format with more familiarity and less expense than other competitive formats like Modern, Standard, and Legacy.  The card pool has been specifically chosen to increase access compared to Competitive Commander, Legacy, and Modern, while keeping the power level of the format relatively high to create dynamic and engaging gameplay.

• 1-v-1
• 25 Life
• 60 Card Decks (1 of which is your Commander, a legendary Creature, Planeswalker, Vehicle, or Spacecraft)
• No Sideboards.  Players may have a Companion outside the game
•  With the exception of basic lands (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest, and Wastes), your deck may not contain more than one of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. This format includes powerful cards and strategies from the last two decades of Magic. 
•  Players must build their deck around the color identity of their Commander.  A card's color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Modern Brawl deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well. 
•  The Command Zone is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it's been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead. 
•  A player that's been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player's commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted). 

Modern Brawl has a custom banned list.  This list has been carefully constructed to maximize enjoyable competitive gameplay and will continue to be managed in a way to promote such experiences.  If cards that are banned in Modern are not listed here and are included in a Modern legal set, they are legal in the format.

Banned as Commander (These cards can be played in your deck but cannot be your Commander):

• Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
• Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• Narset, Parter of Veils
• Old Stickfingers
• Omnath, Locus of Creation
• Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
• Urza, Lord High Artificer
• Winota, Joiner of Forces

Banned Cards:

• Blazing Shoal
• Chrome Mox
• Dark Depths
• Dread Return
• Field of the Dead
• Gitaxian Probe
• Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
• Hypergenesis
• Krark-Clan Ironworks
• Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• Lutri, the Spellchaser
• Mental Misstep
• Mox Amber
• Mox Opal
• Mycosynth Lattice
• Mystic Sanctuary
• Nadu, Winged Wisdom
• Oko, Thief of Crowns
• Once Upon a Time
• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• Sensei’s Divining Top
• Simian Spirit Guide
• Thassa’s Oracle
• The One Ring
• Tibalt’s Trickery
• Underworld Breach
• Up the Beanstalk
• Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
• Vivi Ornitier

Watch List (This serves as a precursor to a possible ban in the event of significant overrepresentation in the format.  These cards are currently legal in the format):

• Skullclamp
• Wrenn and Six
• Deathrite Shaman
• Jegantha, the Wellspring
• Living End

All sets currently legal for the Modern format are legal to play in Modern Brawl.  Modern does not include sets printed before 8th Edition, Commander sets, Reprint sets (ex. Commander Masters, Double Masters), Eternal Legal sets, or reprint sheets of Standard sets.  If a card is in one of these reprint products and has also been printed in a Modern legal set, it is legal in the format.  Cards do not rotate out of Modern Brawl.

What Sets Are Legal in Modern Brawl?

• Lorwyn Eclipsed
• Magic: the Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Magic: The Gathering | Marvel’s Spider-Man
• Edge of Eternities
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY
• Tarkir: Dragonstorm
• Aetherdrift
• Magic: The Gathering® Foundations
• Duskmourn: House of Horror
• Bloomburrow
• Assassin's Creed
• Modern Horizons 3
• Outlaws of Thunder Junction
• Murders at Karlov Manor
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• Wilds of Eldraine
• The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth
• March of the Machine: The Aftermath
• March of the Machine
• Phyrexia: All Will Be One
• The Brothers' War
• Dominaria United
• Streets of New Capenna
• Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
• Innistrad: Crimson Vow
• Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
• Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
• Modern Horizons 2
• Strixhaven
• Kaldheim
• Zendikar Rising
• Core 2021
• Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
• Theros Beyond Death
• Throne of Eldraine
• Core Set 2020
• Modern Horizons
• War of the Spark
• Ravnica Allegiance
• Guilds of Ravnica
• Core Set 2019
• Dominaria
• Rivals of Ixalan
• Ixalan
• Hour of Devastation
• Amonkhet
• Aether Revolt
• Kaladesh
• Eldritch Moon
• Shadows over Innistrad
• Oath of the Gatewatch
• Battle for Zendikar
• Magic Origins
• Dragons of Tarkir
• Fate Reforged
• Khans of Tarkir
• Magic 2015
• Journey into Nyx
• Born of the Gods
• Theros
• Magic 2014
• Dragon's Maze
• Gatecrash
• Return to Ravnica
• Magic 2013
• Avacyn Restored
• Dark Ascension
• Innistrad
• Magic 2012
• New Phyrexia
• Mirrodin Besieged
• Scars of Mirrodin
• Magic 2011
• Rise of the Eldrazi
• Worldwake
• Zendikar
• Magic 2010
• Alara Reborn
• Conflux
• Shards of Alara
• Eventide
• Shadowmoor
• Morningtide
• Lorwyn
• Tenth Edition
• Future Sight
• Planar Chaos
• Time Spiral
• Coldsnap
• Dissension
• Guildpact
• Ravnica: City of Guilds
• Ninth Edition
• Saviors of Kamigawa
• Eighth Edition
• Betrayers of Kamigawa
• Champions of Kamigawa
• Fifth Dawn
• Darksteel
• Mirrodin