Criminal Past
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate 494 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Collector number
- 494
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Will Gist
- Finish
- Etched
What it does
Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
You've never cared much for laws or authority, especially when they get in your way.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Criminal Past was released in 2022 as part of the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate expansion, a set specifically designed for the Magic: The Gathering Commander format. It functions as an enchantment under the Background card type, a mechanic introduced in this set to allow players to customize their commanders with unique themes and abilities, drawing directly from the lore and character archetypes found in Dungeons & Dragons.
The card’s illustration was crafted by artist Lie Setiawan, who utilized a moody, atmospheric palette to reflect the darker themes of a character's unsavory history. The design emphasizes the card's mechanical utility of leveraging cards in the graveyard, effectively tying the narrative concept of a haunting criminal record to the tactical gameplay of resource management and power scaling.
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About Criminal Past
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