Kansas City Magic - The Gathering Meetup Group

Join us every Thursday evening for Open Play Commander Nights – a casual, welcoming event for Magic: The Gathering players of all experience levels. Whether you're a seasoned Planeswalker or just getting into the format, this is the perfect night to meet fellow fans, test your decks, and enjoy some great games in a relaxed environment.
🧙‍♂️ How It Works:
All Magic players play free—just purchase any drink or retail item from the bar, and check in using your Magic Companion App. The bartender will provide the event code so you can officially register your attendance.
🏰 Play Space:
We’ll have designated tables reserved specifically for Commander play, and encourage players to mix, match, and form pods throughout the evening. Open play means you can arrive at your own pace and jump into games as seats open up!
👶 All Ages Welcome:
There is no age restriction to participate in Commander Nights. We welcome players young and old, though minors must be accompanied by an adult to enter the venue.

Battletech:
Simultaneous to MTG Commander, we are hosting BATTLETECH - come engage in epic battles with massive robots!
📍 Location:
This event takes place at Pawn and Pint, Kansas City’s board game pub, offering a great selection of drinks, snacks, and retail items to power up your play.

Magic: The Gathering Casual Commander Nights at Nirvana. Join us on Thursday evenings at 6PM, bring your decks and join the fun.
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PLAY RULES/MODIFIERS
This format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player.

The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.

COLOR IDENTITY
A card's color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

COMMAND ZONE
This is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it's been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

COMMANDER DAMAGE
A player that's been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player's commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted).

PLAY FREE-FOR-ALL MULTIPLAYER
If you're playing a game of Commander with three or more people, you play against each other in a free-for-all multiplayer format.
Each player starts with 40 life, places their commander face-up in their command zone, and draws a hand of seven cards. Players are seated randomly in a circle and turns progress one player at a time in clockwise order around the table.

During gameplay, a player may choose to attack any other player, regardless of their position on the table, and can also choose to attack multiple different players during their attack phase. Permanents, spells, and abilities can also target any player around the table (as long as they don't explicitly say they must be used on "you").

No matter the outcome, Commander gives players the tools to express themselves through strategy, skill, and a whole lot of deck building fun.

For more information about the Commander format, visit https://mtgcommander.net/

(I am not personally hosting this, it's a come and open play event. Come in and find and group!)

Join us every Thursday evening for Open Play Commander Nights – a casual, welcoming event for Magic: The Gathering players of all experience levels. Whether you're a seasoned Planeswalker or just getting into the format, this is the perfect night to meet fellow fans, test your decks, and enjoy some great games in a relaxed environment.
🧙‍♂️ How It Works:
All Magic players play free—just purchase any drink or retail item from the bar, and check in using your Magic Companion App. The bartender will provide the event code so you can officially register your attendance.
🏰 Play Space:
We’ll have designated tables reserved specifically for Commander play, and encourage players to mix, match, and form pods throughout the evening. Open play means you can arrive at your own pace and jump into games as seats open up!
👶 All Ages Welcome:
There is no age restriction to participate in Commander Nights. We welcome players young and old, though minors must be accompanied by an adult to enter the venue.

Battletech:
Simultaneous to MTG Commander, we are hosting BATTLETECH - come engage in epic battles with massive robots!
📍 Location:
This event takes place at Pawn and Pint, Kansas City’s board game pub, offering a great selection of drinks, snacks, and retail items to power up your play.

Magic: The Gathering Casual Commander Nights at Nirvana. Join us on Thursday evenings at 6PM, bring your decks and join the fun.
---
PLAY RULES/MODIFIERS
This format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player.

The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic's history.

COLOR IDENTITY
A card's color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

COMMAND ZONE
This is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it's been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

COMMANDER DAMAGE
A player that's been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player's commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted).

PLAY FREE-FOR-ALL MULTIPLAYER
If you're playing a game of Commander with three or more people, you play against each other in a free-for-all multiplayer format.
Each player starts with 40 life, places their commander face-up in their command zone, and draws a hand of seven cards. Players are seated randomly in a circle and turns progress one player at a time in clockwise order around the table.

During gameplay, a player may choose to attack any other player, regardless of their position on the table, and can also choose to attack multiple different players during their attack phase. Permanents, spells, and abilities can also target any player around the table (as long as they don't explicitly say they must be used on "you").

No matter the outcome, Commander gives players the tools to express themselves through strategy, skill, and a whole lot of deck building fun.

For more information about the Commander format, visit https://mtgcommander.net/

(I am not personally hosting this, it's a come and open play event. Come in and find and group!)