The Commander Game Changers List: All 53 Cards

What the Game Changers List Does

The Game Changers list is the part of the Commander bracket system you can check card by card. Wizards describes these as cards that can dramatically warp a Commander game: they let one player run away with cards or mana, stop other players from playing, or find the deck's best card every game. Every one of them is legal in Commander. The list only decides how many a deck can hold and still call itself a given bracket.

Your commander counts. Wizards' article introducing the brackets says a Game Changer in the command zone uses one of a Bracket 3 deck's three slots. Game Changers are also only one of the bracket rules: mass land denial, chained extra turns and early two-card combos are limited separately, so a deck with zero Game Changers can still belong in Bracket 4.

All 53 Game Changers

Filter by color or sort by price. Each tile is tagged with the kind of card it is (our grouping, explained below), and the price is the cheapest paper copy in any printing or finish: TCGplayer market prices via Scryfall, November 2, 2026. Buy links go through our TCGplayer affiliate link; see our affiliate disclosure.

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• Engine $10.31 Ad Nauseam Put cards from the top of your library into your hand, losing life equal to their mana value, as long as you like. Card page →
• Fast mana $125.71 Ancient Tomb A land that taps for two colorless mana and deals 2 damage to you. Card page →
• Interaction $17.83 Aura Shards Destroy an artifact or enchantment whenever a creature enters under your control. Card page →
• Game ender $34.50 Biorhythm Every life total becomes that player's creature count. Added in February 2026 when it came off the banned list. Card page →
• Engine $7.94 Bolas's Citadel Play cards off the top of your library, paying life instead of mana. Card page →
• Lock $0.97 Braids, Cabal Minion Each player sacrifices an artifact, creature or land every upkeep. Card page →
• Fast mana $153.13 Chrome Mox Free mana rock: exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand and it taps for that card's colors. Card page →
• Game ender $5.09 Coalition Victory Win if you control each basic land type and a creature of each color. Card page →
• Engine $26.32 Consecrated Sphinx A 4/6 flier that draws you two cards each time an opponent draws one. Card page →
• Tutor $3.33 Crop Rotation One mana at instant speed: trade a land for any land in your library, onto the battlefield. Card page →
• Interaction $30.34 Cyclonic Rift Two mana bounce, or at seven mana every nonland permanent you don't control. Card page →
• Tutor $60.05 Demonic Tutor Two mana: any card from your library to your hand. Card page →
• Lock $9.72 Drannith Magistrate Opponents can't cast spells from anywhere but their hands, command zone included. Card page →
• Tutor $32.84 Enlightened Tutor One mana: an artifact or enchantment on top of your library. Card page →
• Interaction $3.65 Farewell Pick any mix of artifacts, creatures, enchantments and graveyards and exile all of them. Card page →
• Engine $23.99 Field of the Dead Makes a 2/2 Zombie whenever a land enters under your control, once you control seven or more lands with different names. Card page →
• Interaction $63.62 Fierce Guardianship Counter a noncreature spell for free while you control a commander. Card page →
• Interaction $55.16 Force of Will Counter any spell for free by exiling a blue card and paying 1 life. Card page →
• Fast mana $1,630.77 Gaea's Cradle A land that taps for {G} for each creature you control. Card page →
• Tutor $14.82 Gamble One mana: any card to your hand, then you discard a card at random. Card page →
• Tutor $4.87 Gifts Ungiven Finds up to four cards with different names; an opponent puts two in your graveyard and you keep the rest. Card page →
• Lock $15.96 Glacial Chasm Your creatures can't attack and all damage to you is prevented. You sacrifice a land when it enters, and its upkeep cost grows by 2 life each turn. Card page →
• Lock $18.19 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV Your white and blue spells cost {1} less; every opponent's spell costs {1} more. Card page →
• Fast mana $478.54 Grim Monolith Two mana for three colorless, with a four-mana untap that combos with a lot of cards. Card page →
• Lock $72.94 Humility Every creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. Card page →
• Tutor $156.02 Imperial Seal Vampiric Tutor as a sorcery. One mana, any card on top, 2 life. Card page →
• Tutor $356.64 Intuition Finds three cards; an opponent picks one for your hand and the rest go to your graveyard. Card page →
• Engine $38.18 Jeska's Will Red mana for each card in an opponent's hand, or exile your top three cards to play this turn. With a commander out, you get both. Card page →
• Fast mana $809.39 Lion's Eye Diamond Free artifact: discard your hand and sacrifice it for three mana of one color. Card page →
• Fast mana $95.77 Mana Vault One mana for three colorless. It stays tapped unless you pay {4} in your upkeep, and deals 1 damage to you each draw step while tapped. Card page →
• Fast mana $3,699.99 Mishra's Workshop A land that taps for three mana to cast artifact spells. Card page →
• Fast mana $1,119.82 Mox Diamond Free mana rock that taps for any color, paid for by discarding a land. Card page →
• Tutor $16.03 Mystical Tutor One mana: an instant or sorcery on top of your library. Card page →
• Lock $0.91 Narset, Parter of Veils Opponents can't draw more than one card each turn. Card page →
• Tutor $14.78 Natural Order Sacrifice a green creature to put any green creature from your library onto the battlefield. Card page →
• Engine $32.03 Necropotence Skip your draw step and pay 1 life per card, as many as you like. They reach your hand at your end step. Card page →
• Engine $1.81 Notion Thief Flash: you draw every extra card your opponents would draw instead. Narset's lock, turned into card draw. Card page →
• Lock $18.94 Opposition Agent Flash: you control opponents while they search, and you can play what they find. Card page →
• Engine $37.28 Orcish Bowmasters Flash. Pings once when it enters, then again, growing an Orc army, whenever an opponent draws any card except the first in their draw step. Card page →
• Engine $26.11 Panoptic Mirror Imprint an instant or sorcery and cast a free copy of it every upkeep. Card page →
• Engine $63.14 Rhystic Study Draw a card whenever an opponent casts a spell, unless they pay {1}. Card page →
• Engine $16.09 Seedborn Muse Untap all your permanents during every other player's untap step. Card page →
• Fast mana $522.44 Serra's Sanctum A land that taps for {W} for each enchantment you control. Card page →
• Engine $55.62 Smothering Tithe A Treasure whenever an opponent draws a card, unless they pay {2}. Card page →
• Tutor $436.50 Survival of the Fittest Discard a creature card and pay {G} to find any creature, as often as you like. Card page →
• Interaction $36.44 Teferi's Protection Phase out your board and become untouchable until your next turn. Card page →
• Engine $18.95 Tergrid, God of Fright Steals every nontoken permanent an opponent sacrifices or permanent card they discard. Card page →
• Game ender $19.57 Thassa's Oracle Wins the game when your library is small enough, the core of the best-known two-card combos. Card page →
• Engine $97.93 The One Ring Cast it for protection from everything until your next turn, then tap it for one more card each time, losing 1 life per burden counter each upkeep. Card page →
• Lock $3,619.50 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Every creature costs its controller {1} each upkeep or dies. Card page →
• Engine $6.03 Underworld Breach For a turn, every nonland card in your graveyard can be cast again with escape. Card page →
• Tutor $49.63 Vampiric Tutor One mana, at instant speed: any card on top of your library, for 2 life. Card page →
• Tutor $26.64 Worldly Tutor One mana: a creature on top of your library. Card page →

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What Kind of Cards Make the List?

Wizards publishes the list by color, not by job. Sorted by what each card does, it falls into six groups, and the groups explain why a pod notices these cards: almost all of them either speed a deck up or take options away from everybody else.

What Are the Cheapest Game Changers?

10 of the 53 cost under $10 for the cheapest copy, and 21 cost under $20. A cheap Game Changer still counts, which is the point most often missed when a budget deck gets called Bracket 2: Narset, Parter of Veils and Braids, Cabal Minion cost less than a dollar and are on the list for what they do to a table, not for what they cost.

TCGplayer market prices via Scryfall, November 2, 2026, the cheapest paper printing of each card in any finish. Prices move daily; the TCGplayer link on each card shows today's.

At the other end, 12 cost $100 or more for the cheapest copy, and 10 of the 53 are on the Reserved List, so Wizards will not reprint them: Gaea's Cradle, Grim Monolith, Humility, Intuition, Lion's Eye Diamond, Mishra's Workshop, Mox Diamond, Serra's Sanctum, Survival of the Fittest and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale.

Which Game Changers Come in a Precon?

11 Game Changers come in at least one Commander precon, so you may own one without having bought it on purpose. If your upgraded precon is meant to stay in Bracket 2, these are worth checking for.

Precon decklists as Wizards published them, 182 decks read on November 2, 2026. Collector-booster printings that share a precon's set code are not counted, because they were never in a deck.

How Often Do Commander Decks Actually Run Them?

Being on the list does not mean a card is everywhere. Across the decks people have built in TurnZero HQ, 51 of the 53 Game Changers appear in at least one deck's 99, and these are the ten that appear most:

TurnZero HQ play stats, November 2, 2026: decks built in TurnZero HQ that include the card in their 99, and the games those decks logged. There are no win rates here on purpose: no Game Changer has 30 logged games yet, and a handful of games says nothing about a card in a format where an average deck wins about a quarter of the time. Read it as a picture of what people build, not proof of what wins.

The most-run Game Changers are the ones that fit almost any deck in their colors: Cyclonic Rift, Rhystic Study, Demonic Tutor and Smothering Tithe. Eight are in one deck or none so far: Biorhythm, Braids, Cabal Minion, Coalition Victory, Humility, Mishra's Workshop, Panoptic Mirror, Serra's Sanctum and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale.

Recent Changes to the Game Changers List

Wizards launched the list in February 2025 with the brackets and changes it in its Commander updates. The two most recent changes:

• February 9, 2026: Farewell was added, and Biorhythm came off the Commander banned list straight onto the Game Changers list. Nothing was removed. That brought the list to 53.
• October 21, 2025: ten cards were removed: Expropriate, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Sway of the Stars, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Urza, Lord High Artificer, Winota, Joiner of Forces, Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, Deflecting Swat and Food Chain. The same update dropped the separate tutor limit from the brackets.

Wizards' Banned and Restricted announcements of May 18, August 10 and October 12, 2026 made no Commander changes. The next is scheduled for November 30, 2026. A card coming off the list moves a deck down a bracket without a single change to the decklist, so it is worth re-reading your deck's bracket after each update. The Commander banned list guide explains how those decisions get made.

How to Count the Game Changers in Your Deck

Count every card in the 100, commander included, against the list above. Then check the other bracket rules, because the Game Changer count only sets a floor: three Game Changers and a turn-four combo is still a Bracket 4 deck. Rate My Deck does both from a pasted decklist: it names the Game Changers it finds and reports the lowest bracket the deck can honestly claim. In an upgraded precon, the likeliest surprises are the cheap ones: Narset, Parter of Veils, Notion Thief, Farewell and Crop Rotation. If you are deciding which of four to cut for a Bracket 3 night, how to cut cards from a Commander deck covers the trade.

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