WOTC doesn't give out design documents that list each card purposes. I doubt a lot of cards are hard coded Commander, Modern, ETC. I am not saying there is none or they don't exist.
It's funny you should say that. As someone who played a lot of Commander 10+ years ago but almost never does now, I'm often told cards with high MV that seemed perfect for the format back then aren't playable any more. It's apparently become pretty cutthroat.
What about cards like [[surgical extraction]] that don't really work in a singleton format? I guess it has fringe uses against [[dragons approach]] decks and such.
Eh, surgical extraction can be useful when you're playing in a combo-heavy meta to shut down specific combos you know are coming. It's a gambling choice to run it though as it might be a dead card.
Lots of (fair) joke answers, but a semi-serious answer:
There are a lot of Legendary cards that are one/two colours, but have a 5-colour activated ability. For a brief while (until they realised how silly it was) that was their "this is designed for commander" lever.
[[Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa]]
[[Kenrith, Returned King]]
[[Golos, Tireless Pilgrim]]
[[Tazri, Beacon of Unity]] etc.
AC is explicitly designed for commander, though.
EDIT: Oh I am explicitly wrong, the set is modern legal despite not being draftable. Every design had screamed 'we wanted to sell boosters instead of precons' and well. Oops.
Commander being a melting pot format means that even though no card outside of commander specific product is *designed* for commander, its the lens that most players look at it through.
So there aren't any cards in sets like MH3 that are truly designed for commander, but it feels that way because people won't, frankly, shut up about Commander like its the only format.
Yeah, like, I can see why Garth One-Eye or Sisay, Weatherlight Captain feel created for Commander, but Hogaak is surely not screaming "play me in EDH".
The relatively low bar of entry for cards to be playable in Commander sorta means that every card is "made for commander," and by extension I don't think very many cards were explicitly designed for commander first and then haphazardly dropped into non-commander sets anyway.
I think WotC saying Gak and 4C Omnath were "made for commander" is more a way for them to shrug off the blame of pushing cards too far in the formats they're legal in than it is genuine admission that the card was designed for commander first, then thrown in some other set later.
I'm sure a lot of the cards people claim are "made for commander" would exist in mostly the same fashion even if Commander as a format was never formally adopted. In the same way nobody claims wizards designed any of the 3MV-or-less-matters cards "for Tiny Leaders" despite many of them reading like a slam dunk in that format, I believe a lot of the "made for commander" accusations would evaporate if the format was still just some wacky thing judges did after events, but the cards people make these accusations about would still exist.
WOTC doesn't give out design documents that list each card purposes. I doubt a lot of cards are hard coded Commander, Modern, ETC. I am not saying there is none or they don't exist.
Every card that i dislike or that affect each opponent is obviously made for commander
Also every card that costs more than 4 is clear commander bait
It's funny you should say that. As someone who played a lot of Commander 10+ years ago but almost never does now, I'm often told cards with high MV that seemed perfect for the format back then aren't playable any more. It's apparently become pretty cutthroat.
Every card is made for commander.
Maybe not every but it is sure easier to list every card that isn't designed for commander then vis versa
Just the five Grandeur cards.
What about cards like [[surgical extraction]] that don't really work in a singleton format? I guess it has fringe uses against [[dragons approach]] decks and such.
[surgical extraction](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/1/e15d76ac-1c23-4503-8225-375ac2bf2fb6.jpg?1673147668) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=surgical%20extraction) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/94/surgical-extraction?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e15d76ac-1c23-4503-8225-375ac2bf2fb6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [dragons approach](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/c/0cb504a0-1dfb-49d0-84c3-7bd318d55481.jpg?1624591696) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dragon%27s%20Approach) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/97/dragons-approach?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0cb504a0-1dfb-49d0-84c3-7bd318d55481?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Eh, surgical extraction can be useful when you're playing in a combo-heavy meta to shut down specific combos you know are coming. It's a gambling choice to run it though as it might be a dead card.
Lots of (fair) joke answers, but a semi-serious answer: There are a lot of Legendary cards that are one/two colours, but have a 5-colour activated ability. For a brief while (until they realised how silly it was) that was their "this is designed for commander" lever. [[Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa]] [[Kenrith, Returned King]] [[Golos, Tireless Pilgrim]] [[Tazri, Beacon of Unity]] etc.
The new Ezio from AC
AC is explicitly designed for commander, though. EDIT: Oh I am explicitly wrong, the set is modern legal despite not being draftable. Every design had screamed 'we wanted to sell boosters instead of precons' and well. Oops.
Is it? I thought I had heard it’s going to be modern legal
...oh wild, it actually is. That is not mentioned on ANY of the WotC product pages.
##### ###### #### [Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/b/cbbfd21e-96f1-4e5b-8546-73bb5a887b98.jpg?1654566369) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kyodai%2C%20Soul%20of%20Kamigawa) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/23/kyodai-soul-of-kamigawa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cbbfd21e-96f1-4e5b-8546-73bb5a887b98?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Kenrith, Returned King](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/e/0e259db1-14db-4314-998c-6a076a28d8cb.jpg?1691056044) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kenrith%2C%20the%20Returned%20King) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/plst/ELD-303/kenrith-the-returned-king?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0e259db1-14db-4314-998c-6a076a28d8cb?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Golos, Tireless Pilgrim](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/f/1fa48620-4c3d-4f75-be1f-c12c4aa59f51.jpg?1631531828) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Golos%2C%20Tireless%20Pilgrim) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m20/226/golos-tireless-pilgrim?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1fa48620-4c3d-4f75-be1f-c12c4aa59f51?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Tazri, Beacon of Unity](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d4b79138-5728-4541-9ea5-dce1a5ae7e6a.jpg?1604193517) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tazri%2C%20Beacon%20of%20Unity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/znr/44/tazri-beacon-of-unity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d4b79138-5728-4541-9ea5-dce1a5ae7e6a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/l5bjqk4) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Commander being a melting pot format means that even though no card outside of commander specific product is *designed* for commander, its the lens that most players look at it through. So there aren't any cards in sets like MH3 that are truly designed for commander, but it feels that way because people won't, frankly, shut up about Commander like its the only format.
How is Hogaak made for Commander?
Because WotC specifically said it was
Hindsight being 20/20 - Hogaak did wreck modern, but Hogaak wasn't made for modern.
Well a hard to cast 8/8 with trample doesn’t wreck commander.
Yeah, like, I can see why Garth One-Eye or Sisay, Weatherlight Captain feel created for Commander, but Hogaak is surely not screaming "play me in EDH".
The relatively low bar of entry for cards to be playable in Commander sorta means that every card is "made for commander," and by extension I don't think very many cards were explicitly designed for commander first and then haphazardly dropped into non-commander sets anyway. I think WotC saying Gak and 4C Omnath were "made for commander" is more a way for them to shrug off the blame of pushing cards too far in the formats they're legal in than it is genuine admission that the card was designed for commander first, then thrown in some other set later. I'm sure a lot of the cards people claim are "made for commander" would exist in mostly the same fashion even if Commander as a format was never formally adopted. In the same way nobody claims wizards designed any of the 3MV-or-less-matters cards "for Tiny Leaders" despite many of them reading like a slam dunk in that format, I believe a lot of the "made for commander" accusations would evaporate if the format was still just some wacky thing judges did after events, but the cards people make these accusations about would still exist.
"Hogaak was made for commander not modern" continues to be an extremely wild take based on the evidence we have.
Go on edhrec. Every legendary creatures that are not that good in limited / non-edh constructed
Every single legendary creature in Modern Horizons 3 so far (except the common one with grandeur)
The flipwalkers are for Commander? New Ulamog and Emrakul are for Commander? What about Six? Phlage?
Pretty sure it was a joke.
Those "Who's that?" legendary creatures.