Artifct commader

[MisterJH]

Can i have a colorless commander? Is it logical?

[MisterJH]

Im aware as well as use colorless cards

[Dudecore]

{Memnarch} is a good artifact commander, and he has {U} color identity.

A colorless commander is kinda silly, but not impossible. And it's entirely non-basic land.

[MisterJH]

{Memnarch} is a good artifact commander, and he has {U} color identity.

A colorless commander is kinda silly, but not impossible. And it's entirely non-basic land.

Exactly it seems kind of fun

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

{Memnarch} is a good artifact commander, and he has {U} color identity.

A colorless commander is kinda silly, but not impossible. And it's entirely non-basic land.

Wait you can use him as a commander?  I thought the initial mana cost is the deciding place for colors, but if you use memnarch, you can use blue?

[MisterJH]

I thought so too, that CMC decided it

[Keyeto]

It's not so much cmc that matters as it is color identity. {Memnarch} has blue in its color identity, so blue cards would be allowed in an EDH deck with it as commander.

[MisterJH]

In the tagged rules guide at the too, it begs to differ

[Dudecore]

Read the official rules about color identity before assuming things, not the rules in 30 seconds. The rules in 30 seconds are not thorough. While in game play mechanics the color of a card is always determined exclusively by the colors used in its casting cost or its color indicator, the color identity of a card is specified by all mana symbols that appear on the card anywhere.

And the rules in 30 seconds does not even beg to differ, it makes no mention of color identity.

[MisterJH]

Read the official rules about color identity before assuming things, not the rules in 30 seconds. The rules in 30 seconds are not thorough. While in game play mechanics the color of a card is always determined exclusively by the colors used in its casting cost or its color indicator, the color identity of a card is specified by all mana symbols that appear on the card anywhere.

And the rules in 30 seconds does not even beg to differ, it makes no mention of color identity.

Idk it just said 'the mana cost determines what cards you can play' so i was going off of that. Color identity opens up some cool options

[Dudecore]

I'll ratify it to avoid confusion. I was operating on the false assumption that people would be reading the rules - it is misleading.