First printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022)
All 4 prints
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Legendary Creature — Dragon
Flying
Whenever Ganax or another Dragon you control enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
3/4
- Illustrated by
- Aaron Miller
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (10)
- Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities.
- You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won't usually be a creature anyway). - If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
Prices
MTGO price: 6.7 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
115 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Aggravated Assault + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Utvara Hellkite
- Draw the game, Infinite creature ETB…: Draconic Visitor + Ganax, Astral Hunter
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Ganax, Astral Hunter + Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm + Parallel Lives + Reflections of Littjara
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Deadeye Navigator + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Adrix and Nev, Twincasters + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm + Reflections of Littjara
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Doubling Season + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm + Reflections of Littjara
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB: Deadeye Navigator + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Goldspan Dragon
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB: Deadeye Navigator + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Aggravated Assault + Ganax, Astral Hunter + Helm of the Host
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Aggravated Assault + Blade of Selves + Ganax, Astral Hunter
