Commander Damage
Asked by darkmatter32x 6 years ago
If my commander was changed into a land and I am able to animate the land and attack, would the damage it will make be considered commander damage?
For arguement sake. My commander Yahenni, Undying Partisan is enchanted with Imprisoned in the Moon. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is in play along with Kormus Bell.
So your commander is Yahenni, Undying Partisan: Legendary Creature Land - Swamp. Yup, sounds like your commander so it deals commander damage. Commander damage is tracked as combat damage dealt by the card that started in your command zone. If, for example, your commander was The Mimeoplasm and it entered the battlefield as a Bear Cub with 5 +1/+1 counters on it, it would be able to deal 7 commander damage in an attack, despite having a completely different name and not even being legendary. In your example you commander even retained it's name and legendary status.
October 16, 2017 12:09 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Being a commander is a special property of the physical card, itself. There's no way to remove the "commanderness" of a card (even if it loses all abilities, becomes a copy of another card, gets turned face-down, whatever) and "commanderness" can't be copied over to other non-commander cards. In your example the animated land will deal commander damage.
wereotter says... Accepted answer #1
Looking at the combination of cards, I'm inclined to say yes. Improsioned in the Moon only changes the line "Legendary Creature - Aetherborn Vampire" to "Land" however the card itself is still your commander, and as such if you were somehow able to make it attack, it would still be your commander dealing combat damage.
October 16, 2017 11:07 a.m.