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Rules
30
Starting life
21
Commander damage
10
Poison counters
No draw
First player, turn one
Format policy
The ban list belongs to the players.
Every Cali Commander decision is made by community vote in The Collectors Den Discord at a 50% threshold. Vote 1 shaped the first official local list, and the complete aggregate results are public.
View full vote results →Read the format rules
~285 valid votes per question · 124 ballot questions · 72 card-ban votes · 23 commander-ban votes · 28 card-unban votes · 1 commander-unban vote · 14 unbanned · 0 banned
The complete banned list
Everything banned in Cali Commander.
This is the whole list — you do not need to know the official Commander banned list to read it. Cali Commander starts from Commander's 42 banned cards, then the community votes on them. The deck checker and deck builder enforce everything below automatically.
Banned cards (31)
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Black Lotus
- Channel
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
- Griselbrand
- Hullbreacher
- Iona, Shield of Emeria
- Karakas
- Leovold, Emissary of Trest
- Limited Resources
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Nadu, Winged Wisdom
- Paradox Engine
- Recurring Nightmare
- Sundering Titan
- Sylvan Primordial
- Time Vault
- Time Walk
- Tolarian Academy
- Trade Secrets
- Upheaval
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
Also banned — whole card categories
Banned in every sanctioned format for reasons unrelated to power level. These never go to a ballot.
- Dexterity (2 cards) — Requires physical dexterity to resolve.
- Subgames (1 card) — Starts a subgame inside the game.
- Ante (9 cards) — References playing for ante.
- Offensive content (7 cards) — On Wizards' universal offensive-content list.
- Conspiracies (25 cards) — Conspiracy-type cards from draft-only sets.
- Sticker sheets & Attractions — Sticker sheets and Attraction cards. Playable cards that use the sticker mechanic are legal, as in official Commander.
Banned in Commander, legal here (8)
Unbanned by community vote. If you are coming from Commander, these are the cards that changed.
- Dockside Extortionist
- Jeweled Lotus
- Library of Alexandria
- Mana Crypt
- Primeval Titan
- Prophet of Kruphix
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Tinker
Bar = vote support · line = 50% decision threshold
Unbanned by the community
Legal by player vote
Banned in official Commander, but these cards cleared the 50% unban threshold in Vote 1 and are legal in Cali Commander.
Stayed banned
The community held the line
Unban votes for these cards fell short of 50%. The bar shows how close each one came.
Watch list
Legal, but the format is watching
Fully legal today — each drew ban support from more than a quarter of voters. The bar shows ban support against the 50% line that would ban them.
On the Wave 2 ballot
Banned until the community votes
Still banned from the official baseline list. These go in front of the players in the next vote cycle.
Emrakul, the Aeons TornAwaiting community vote
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant // Erayo's EssenceAwaiting community vote
FlashAwaiting community vote
Golos, Tireless PilgrimAwaiting community vote
GriselbrandAwaiting community vote
HullbreacherAwaiting community vote
Iona, Shield of EmeriaAwaiting community vote
Leovold, Emissary of TrestAwaiting community vote
Limited ResourcesAwaiting community vote
Paradox EngineAwaiting community vote
Recurring NightmareAwaiting community vote
Sundering TitanAwaiting community vote
Sylvan PrimordialAwaiting community vote
Trade SecretsAwaiting community vote
UpheavalAwaiting community vote
Yawgmoth's BargainAwaiting community voteFormat integrity list
Permanently banned, never voted
Banned in every sanctioned format for reasons unrelated to power level — offensive content, nonfunctional mechanics, dexterity requirements, or subgames. These never go to a ballot.
