The Commands are a group of card cycles featuring instants and sorceries that offer four modes of which you can pick two while casting. For this reason, each command can be cast as six different spells.

Description

The first cycle of commands was mono-colored and was printed in Lorwyn. Since then, an enemy-colored cycle, an allied-colored cycle, and another mono-colored cycle have been printed in Dragons of Tarkir, Strixhaven: School of Mages, and The Brothers' War, respectively.

List

Cycle name
Original Commands	Austere Command	Cryptic Command	Profane Command	Incendiary Command	Primal Command
	The original cycle of commands featured the art of various containers breaking open and releasing symbols made of arcane energy. The cycle was illustrated by Wayne England. This would be the only cycle to not use a character's name as part of the card name.
Brothers' War Commands	Kayla's Command	Urza's Command	Gix's Command	Mishra's Command	Titania's Command
	Each command in the Brothers' War cycle featured an important character from Dominaria's history. The cycle was illustrated by Dominik Mayer.

Cycle name
Dragonlord Commands	Ojutai's Command	Silumgar's Command	Kolaghan's Command	Atarka's Command	Dromoka's Command
	The second cycle of commands features the Dragonlords of Tarkir and are all instants. The top two abilities are from the color pie of the first color and the second two are from the second.

Cycle name
Strixhaven Commands	Silverquill Command	Witherbloom Command	Quandrix Command	Prismari Command	Lorehold Command
	The enemy-colored cycle of commands featured students of the different Strixhaven schools, named after their founding Dragon, gathering together.

Other Commands

Several one-off commands appeared in other sets:

• Kaya's Guile, from Modern Horizons.
• Verdant Command, from Modern Horizons 2.
• Titan of Industry, from Streets of New Capenna (also a creature).
• Kozilek's Command, from Modern Horizons 3.

Trivia

• While matching the naming scheme of the commands and even being an instant, Gerrard's Command is not a command as it is not modal. Krenko's Command is similar.
• Very Cryptic Command was printed in Unstable. Like the other commands, it has four modes to pick two from- however, Very Cryptic Command has six different variants for a total of twenty-four different modes across the six variants. An alternate art for Very Cryptic Command was even illustrated by Wayne England who illustrated the original cycle.
• Command Performance was printed in Unfinity, using tickets and attractions to produce a common-rarity Command.