Collectible Card Game Headquarters

First, you are not the first person to suggest approximating Commander/EDH using the Exile zone. There are problems associated with using Exile as the Command zone:

• You would be able to cast the Commander from Exile even if you shouldn't be able to (for example an Oblivion Ring was used on the commander).
• It would be possible to bring a commander from Exile to your hand or place it on the battlefield without casting it (and paying extra costs). This is not how it should behave.

As for your possible methods:

1. Cards in Library can't have abilities activated on them (though triggered and static abilities can work) as the engine won't allow it. As such it is possible to have the "Commander" automatically be removed from the deck and placed in Exile at the beginning of the game (or be removed from hand and have another card placed in hand to replace it).
2. You can't prevent the top card from being moved (for example from a mulligan).

Commander cards would have to be specifically written (you can't just use a regular card as a commander) as they would need the special "commander" code to work.

ok but if a comander was exiled you could (norlmaly would )put it into the comad zone so casting from the exile wouldnt be to far from corect

as for having to pay the extra 2 each time it was cast coud we keep track with counters some how.

iknow the cod is diffrent but they kept track of the chaos die in planchase. that would be a good place to start

I have a somewhat working version that I gave up on but I won't have access to my computer until next week. I can post it if someone wants to try and finish it. The version I havecorrectly tracks the number of times the commander was cast from the command zone. I ran into problems and broke my code when I tried to differentiate between Exile and the command zone by storing a number in a player chest. I didn't want to try and find time to figure out the problem.

So if someone is brave/smart enough to try and figure out my backwards thinking, I'll post what I have up somewhere. I think all that is left is to add the command zone functionality and some other minor tweaks to make it run smoother.

silver1114 wrote:ok but if a comander was exiled you could (norlmaly would )put it into the comad zone so casting from the exile wouldnt be to far from corect

Except that since moving to the "Command Zone" is optional it could considerably change how certain effects work. For example with Oblivion Ring if an opponent casts Oblivion Ring on your commander and you have a Disenchant in your hand generally you would not move your commander to the "Command Zone" when you could simply use the Disenchant to bring it back this should also make it impossible to recast it if you decide to use the Disenchant for something else because you did not "opt" to move it to the "Command Zone". This was just one example another would be if the commander was bounced by something like Flicker. So you have to somehow differentiate between "Regular Exile" and "Command Zone Exile".

silver1114 wrote:as for having to pay the extra 2 each time it was cast coud we keep track with counters some how.

iknow the cod is diffrent but they kept track of the chaos die in planchase. that would be a good place to start

This is not that difficult to keep track of via a register in the player data chest and use a simple Int_Inc() whenever it is cast.