This system is visually portrayed as a board where you add colored markers on the tracks to gain new abilities
MAGIC MEETS THE LORD OF THE RINGSExperience the beloved story of The Lord of the Rings with the strategic gameplay of Magic: The Gathering, facing off against opponents in thrilling magical battles EPIC MULTIPLAYER BATTLESCommander is a multiplayer way to play Magic, an epic, free-for-all battle full of strategic plays and social intrigue THE HOSTS OF MORDORJoin the hosts of Mordor with a 100-card Blue-Black-Red deck containing 2 Foil Legendary Creature cards and 98 nonfoil cards INTRODUCES 20 COMMANDER CARDSThis deck introduces 20 never-before-seen Commander cards to Magic: The Gathering COLLECT SPECIAL TREATMENT CARDSEach deck comes with a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack containing 2 special treatment cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set, including 1 Rare or Mythic Rare and at least 1 Traditional Foil Riders of Rohan Decklist Commander (1) Creatures (31) Aragorn, King of Gondor Beregond of the Guard Bastion Protector Dearly Departed Frontline Medic Selfless Squire Verge Rangers Weathered Wayfarer Combat Celebrant Flamerush Rider Frontier Warmonger Harsh Mentor Zealous Conscripts Fiend Hunter Palace Jailer Village Bell-Ringer Humble Defector Champions of Minas Tirith Gilraen, Dnedain Protector Grey Host Reinforcements Lossarnach Captain Archivist of Gondor Denethor, Stone Seer Gimli of the Glittering Caves Boromir, Gondor's Hope omer, King of Rohan Faramir, Steward of Gondor Riders of Rohan Erkenbrand, Lord of Westfold Prince Imrahil the Fair Thoden, King of Rohan Instants (4) Unbreakable Formation Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Lost to Legend Sorceries (8) Increasing Devotion Visions of Glory Earthquake Supreme Verdict Sunset Revelry Call for Aid Forth Eorlingas
Probably the most common cost for an activated ability is to pay some amount of mana, so most instances of paying mana are to activate an ability
Now it mostly sees play in EDH, where decks have abundant mana to cast it and aristocrat decks enjoy the powerful drain ability to close out games
