MTG Commander Legends Battle for Baldur’s Gate expansion coming in June 2022

Gaming grognards will likely remember the original Baldur’s Gate games on PC that involved you building up a character and then puttering about the region in a quest for godhood as a scion of a dead good. Now, Wizards is releasing Commander Legends Battle for Baldur’s Gate as an expansion set, bringing the familiar characters and locales in the game into the Magic the Gathering card game.

Commander Legends Battle for Baldur’s Gate is a 361 card set with a slated launch date of 10th June 2022. In selected Southeast Asian countries that consist of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, users can get a customised branded dice case with every purchase of a collector booster box. At the time of writing, you can get it at participating WPN stores and online at the aforementioned links.

What is the MTG Commander Legends Battle for Baldur’s Gate expansion

Basically, MTG Commander Legends Battle for Baldur’s Gate expansion features familiar characters and locales in the city of Baldur’s Gate. You’ll encounter characters whose names have become legendary even beyond AD&D players like the infamous ranger Minsc and his miniature space hamster companion Boo, the mythical Elminster, the bubbly Imoen and more.

The expansion features several new mechanics and includes a new Backgrounds enchantment that adds more flavour text and also new in-game abilities to a chosen commander.

Another new mechanic is the addition of Initiative which unlike the normal use of the word involves a jaunt into the Undercity dungeons when a player gets the initiative which basically improves selected cards in the set when you have the initiative.

The set also sees the addition of classic looking Rulebook frames in selected cards that look like the early edition AD&D Monster Manuals as well as Borderless framed cards too. For more details check out https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/commander-legends-battle-baldurs-gate