The governing body behind 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format has announced it is inducting two new members to the folꦉd. Community members and former Commander Advisory Group names Olivia Gobert-Hi🍸cks and Jim Lapage are joining the four-person team dedicated to defining the Commander format’s rules and banlist.
Unlike many other Magic formats, Wizards of the Coast has minimal involvement in governing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Commander. Instead, it falls to the combined efforts of the Advisory Group – who represent the communit❀y – and the Rules Committee to identify problematic cards and rules.
In a blog post on the official , it was revealed that Gobert-Hicks, a str൲eamer and cosplayer, and Lapage, a Commander content creator be🅠st-known for his work on , will be joining the Rules Committee.
Talking about the announcement, fellow committee member Toby Elliot described both new members as having “demonstrated a deep understanding of the Commander Philosophy, the right outlook for successfully managing a format, and a bunch of great ideas that we’re looking forward to exploring further”. A particular focus of the Rules Committee is maintaining the “Philosophy” of Commander th♏at places it as a less competitive, more collaborative gameplay experience with the entire table’s fun in mind.
, who is also the first woman ever appointed to the committee, said that she wants to use her time to “help assist 🎃players in having the best possible experience”, while has a particular focus on high-power Commander games that are often accused of breaking the philosophy of the format, hoping to “destigmatize high-powered play”.
The Comm𒀰ander Rules Committee also includes format co-founders Gavin Duggan and Sheldon Menery, and long-tim𒁃e members Toby Elliott and Scott Larabee (the latter of whom also works at Wizards of the Coast as the organized play manager and on Commander products).
In , Menery laid out his goals for the rules committee, including increasing diversity from the four white men it previously was. At the time, he said it was “important for the next person… to be demographically diff෴erent from us.” He expanded by saying “the real core is that there’s a tremendous diversity among Commander players, and we want the format’s ruling body to reflect that”.