Criminal Past
Criminal Past: Legendary Enchantment - Background, Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment - Background
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
- Released
- 2022-06-10
- Collector number
- 122
- Artist
- Will Gist
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About Criminal Past
Criminal Past is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon black legendary enchantment from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), a draft-focused set released in June 2022. It is collector number 122 in that set, with art by Will Gist. It costs {2}{B} (two generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.24 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Criminal Past by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Criminal Past
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #494 | Uncommon | 2022 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Criminal Past, newest first.
- An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- If an opponent controls a commander creature you own while you control Criminal Past, X will be the number of creatures cards in that player's graveyard, not yours.
- You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
Similar cards
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