168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering has a fairly straightforward yet intricate resource system, where you use mana to cast spells, progressively playing more powerful cards as you generate more mana with each passing turn. A spell's cost usually reflects how powerful it is, with stronger effects tied to more expensive and restrictive mana costs. Then there are free spells, which under the right conditions ignore the mana system entirely.

Of course, nothing's truly free in Magic; even spells that you can cast without mana usually require an alternative cost, or some condition to be met. Even so, being able to cast a spell without any mana investment is a powerful play, especially when opponents won't expect you to have any interaction.

Commander banlist cards👍 are not in consideration for this list. Sorry,𓄧 Black Lotus!

10 Endurance

No Graveyard Is Safe

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Modern Horizons 2 unleashed a cycle of 'evoke Elementals' that you can cast without mana by exiling a card of the same color from your hand instead. While these have redefined multiple 60-card formats, they're more tolerable in Commander.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Graveyard interaction won't matter all the time, but it's a massive game-changer when you can stop someone's big graveyard play. Endurance preys on graveyard strategies that wait for their opponents to tap out before making their big move, and Flash lets you consume a graveyard with the best possible timing.

9 Solitude

Swords To Plowshares On A Body

White isn't well known for its ability to cast spells for free, so Solitude often comes as even more of a surprise than most of the other evoke Elementals. It essentially staples the Swords to Plowshares text onto an enters-the-battlefield effect, which makes for a strong card even when you're just casting it for full price.

It's also a premium flicker target; you can evoke Solitude, and with its sacrifice effect on the stack, flicker it with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a card like Ephemerate to keep it around perman♛ently and re-trigger its ETB.

8 🎃 🍸 Jeweled Lotus

Overrated And Still Very Strong

The strength of Jeweled Lotus comes with having a commander that can put you very far ahead in the game if it hits the board early. Some commanders don't benefit from being cast early, which makes Jeweled Lotus an unnecessary addition for those decks.

Remember that Jeweled Lotus puts you down an entire card to accelerate your commander into play, which can absolutely be worth it with the right commander. The key is pairing Lotus with a legend that recoupಌs that card, or provides a cascading advantage the longer it sits in play.

7 ♛ ꧟ Pact Of Negation

Counter Now, Pay Later

Free 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:counterspells are a defining feature of competitive Commander, and often frowned upon in casual settings. A free counter doesn't elevate a deck to top-tier status on its own, but there's still an expectation with some players that casual decks don't include them.

Pact of Negation isn't too offensive, resulting in a game loss if the player can't pay its hefty upkeep cost. However, that cost is mitigated by saving Pact for a big combo turn, where it can protect combo pieces from interaction at no cost, ending the game before payment's ever an issue.

6 💟 Force Of Vigor 😼

A Bit Redundant Of A Name

Force of Vigor is one of green's only ways to interact for free. When it's not completely dismantling combo pieces, there will almost always be targets worth removing from play, and it's perfectly fine to run it out for the full four mana.

Force of Vigor's great for getting out from underneath artifacts and enchantments that lock down your access to mana – 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:'stax' pieces, as they're called. Cards like Blood Moon, Back to Basics, and Winter Orb can make casti💃ng spells difficult, but Force givꦅes you an effective way to clear those lock-pieces away.

5 ꧟ Deadly Rollick

Death When You Least Expect It

Black has several free removal spells with Snuff Out and Slaughter Pact, but Deadly Rollick is best-in-class, which shouldn't come as a surprise from the free kill-spell designed specifically for Commander. The stipulation is that you control a commander, a feat that's not hard to do in the format literally called Commander.

Commander 2020's free spells all have a place in the format, with the best ones being some of the top cards in the format. Rollick lets you tap out and still have interaction up for a problematic creature, and it exiles the target to boot.

4 🥃 Force ಌOf Will And Force Of Negation

The Old Guard Of Free Counterspells

Force of Will has an established pedigree from Legacy and Vintage as a glue piece that prevents those formats from devolving into utter chaos. It translates well to Commander too, though it's often viewed as a 'try-hard' card.

Force of Negation was designed as a Modern-friendly Force of Will, but functions as Force of Will #2 in Commander. Blue decks don't like tapping out, but these Forces let you do so with some degree of safety, and they give you a strong defense when investing all your mana into a game-winning combo.

3 Man🏅a ꧅Vault

Sol Ring's Edgier Cousin

There's no compelling reason why Mana Vault's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:legal in Commander, since it essentially skips any player who has it two turns ahead of their competition. Legality aside, 'better than Sol Ring' is a clear indication of a broken card.

Mana Vault's 'drawback' is diminished when you take the leap from Vintage to Commander. A couple poorly-called coin flips add up in a 20-life format, but Commander's starting life total of 40 shrugs this off and facilitates some of the fastest possible openings in the format.

2 ꦰ ꦅ Fierce Guardianship

Commander's Resident Free Counter

Take Force of Will, a card already despised by many, tweak it with Commander-specific text, and you end up with some of the most resilient interaction you could ask for. Sure, Fierce Guardianship only counters noncreature spells, but it doesn't ask you to 2-for-1 yourself like the blue Forces do.

Fierce Guardianship pairs be🗹st with commanders that needs to survive a trip around the table before impacting the game. Commanders with scary upkeep or attack triggers often draw the attention of other players, but Guardianship adds one extra layer of protection to keep your boardstate intact.

1 D🔯eflecting Swat

Right Back At Ya

Deflecting Swat won't necessarily push through a game-ending combo the same way a free counterspell could, but its average case is so strong that it frequently plays out like the strongest free spell in Commander.

If a free counterspell doesn't push through a win, it usually just trades 1-for-1 with another spell, sometimes even at a disadvantage for you. When Deflecting Swat works, it's not only saving one of your creatures, but often redirecting a spell to take out things that are problematic for you. Bonus points if you redirꦜect a spell with multiple targets.