Faceless One is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
If Faceless One is your commander, choose a color before the game begins. Faceless One is the chosen color. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Complete guide
Faceless One is a unique legendary enchantment creature from the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate set. It serves as a safety net for the Choose a Background mechanic, ensuring you always have a compatible partner for your commander. This card allows for incredible flexibility in color identity while functioning as both a creature and a Background.
What Faceless One Does
Faceless One acts as a 'blank' commander that you can customize. If it is your commander, you choose a color before the game begins, and it becomes that color for the duration of the match. It also possesses the 'Choose a Background' ability, meaning it can be paired with another legendary creature that has 'Choose a Background' or function as the Background for a creature that needs one.
Resolving the Color Choice
The color choice happens during the pre-game procedure, similar to how you declare your commander. You must announce the color to all players. This choice determines the color identity of your deck during construction. Once the game begins, Faceless One is that color in all zones, including the command zone, the stack, and the battlefield.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
A common misconception is that Faceless One allows for three commanders. Per the official rulings, you may only have two commanders if one is Faceless One and the other has the appropriate 'Choose a Background' ability or is a legendary Background enchantment. Additionally, remember that while it is an enchantment, it is also a creature and is subject to summoning sickness and creature removal.
When to Play It
Faceless One is best utilized when you want to play a specific legendary creature with 'Choose a Background' but none of the existing Background cards fit your desired deck strategy or color identity. It provides a consistent 3/3 body that contributes to your commander tax and board presence while unlocking a specific color for your deck.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf you have chosen Green for your Faceless One, you can include Green ramp spells alongside artifact staples. When you cast Solemn Simulacrum, its ability triggers, allowing you to search for a basic land to put onto the battlefield tapped. This helps you reach the five mana required to cast Faceless One from the command zone more quickly.
Roaming ThroneFaceless One is a 'Background' and a 'God' (or whatever type it may be assigned via other effects). If you cast Roaming Throne and choose 'Background' as the creature type, the Throne will not double Faceless One's color choice because that is a static ability, not a triggered one. However, if Faceless One had an 'enters the battlefield' trigger, Roaming Throne would cause it to trigger an additional time.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Faceless One
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Faceless One both has choose a Background and is itself a Background. This means that you may have two commanders if one of them is Faceless One and the other is either a Legendary Creature with the choose a background ability OR is a legendary Background enchantment. It does not allow you to have three commanders.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor + Cloudstone Curio + Faceless One + Ugin's Mastery
- 1Cast Faceless One by paying
due to Pearl-Ear. - 2When Faceless One enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Ugin's Mastery from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Cast Ugin's Mastery by paying due to Pearl-Ear.
- 4When Ugin's Mastery enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Faceless One from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor + Cloudstone Curio + Faceless One + Case of the Shattered Pact
- 1Cast Faceless One by paying due to Pearl-Ear.
- 2When Faceless One enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Case of the Shattered Pact from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Cast Case of the Shattered Pact by paying due to Pearl-Ear.
- 4When Case of the Shattered Pact enters the battlefield, it and Cloudstone Curio trigger.
- 5Resolve the Case of the Shattered Pact trigger, causing you to search your library for a basic land card and put it into your hand.
- 6Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning Faceless One from the battlefield to your hand.
- 7Repeat.
Faceless One + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin + Myth Unbound + Mirage Mirror
- 1Activate Mirage Mirror by paying
, causing it to become a copy of Myth Unbound until end of turn. - 2Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Faceless One, adding
. - 4Choose to return Faceless One to the command zone from your graveyard.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Faceless One + Rakdos, Lord of Riots + Warstorm Surge + Altar of Dementia
- 1Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 2Warstorm Surges triggers, dealing 3 damage to any target opponent.
- 3Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Faceless One.
- 4Choose to have Faceless One return to command zone.
- 5Resolve the Altar of Dementia's ability, causing target player to mill three cards.
- 6Repeat.
Faceless One + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin + Myth Unbound + Mirage Mirror
- 1Activate Mirage Mirror by paying , causing it to become a copy of Myth Unbound until end of turn.
- 2Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 3Activate Faith Healer by sacrificing Faceless One.
- 4Choose to return Faceless One to the command zone from your graveyard.
- 5Resolve the ability from step 3.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Faceless One + Rakdos, Lord of Riots + Terror of the Peaks + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 2Terror of the Peaks triggers, dealing 3 damage to any target opponent.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Faceless One, adding one mana of any color.
- 4Choose to have Faceless One return to command zone.
- 5Repeat.
Faceless One + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin + Myth Unbound + Mirage Mirror
- 1Activate Mirage Mirror by paying , causing it to become a copy of Myth Unbound until end of turn.
- 2Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 3Activate Phantatog's first ability by sacrificing Faceless One.
- 4Choose to return Faceless One to the command zone from your graveyard.
- 5Resolve the ability from step 3.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Faceless One + Rakdos, Lord of Riots + Terror of the Peaks + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Cast Faceless One from the command zone by paying .
- 2Terror of the Peaks triggers, dealing 3 damage to any target opponent.
- 3Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing Faceless One.
- 4Choose to have Faceless One return to command zone.
- 5Resolve the Goblin Bombardment's ability, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 6Repeat.
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