Hello everyone, before we start our preview card episode today, there's been kind of a big announcement

and then we wanted to address it really quick. Yeah, new rules specifically for companion

this was announced on June 1st and it says for the companion cards we've talked about this before

Lutri being the main one we've talked about but it says once per game, anytime you could cast a

sorcery during your main phase when the stack is empty, you can pay three generic man as a

put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated

ability. So this is an official rules changed by Wizards of the Coast, they do this very rarely

but basically changing how companion works now. You can't just play the companion from what we've

been calling the companion zone as if it were like a card in your hand or whatever. You now have

to pay three man at sorcery speed to put it into your hand and now then you'll have to pay the

casting cost of the companion to now cast it. So this is a definite nerf to companions. Some of

people have been asking does this rule change affect commander and in fact it does because it's

official or rata to the card so I'll read the statement from the commander rules committee here.

This was posted by Sheldon Mentary. It says you've seen the changes to companion. As far as commander

goes we find no additional changes necessary before our next regular update which is scheduled

on June 22nd. Companion will operate in commander similarly to other formats meaning you'll have

to pay the three etc. Save that it will not come from a sideboard. Let's leave the sideboard

debate behind it. We've already talked about it before. What do you think of this changed Jimmy?

I mean for us we didn't really get much time to play with the companions to know how powerful they

were but they clearly were a terrorizing other formats and so in that I understand where they're

coming from. It's tough because in the past we've seen commander follows the official magic rules

when it comes to the Mulligan and all this stuff as well which I think is good. So this is just another

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