Editing Party

{{Infobox mechanic
| icon = Icon Party.png
|first=Zendikar Rising
|last={{noslash|Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate/Commander decks}}
|text=''(Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)''
|storm=8
|storm_ref=<ref name="Storm">{{DailyRef|making-magic/storm-scale-throne-of-eldraine-through-strixhaven-part-2|Storm Scale: Throne of Eldraine through Strixhaven, Part 2|[[Mark Rosewater]]|January 03, 2022}}</ref>
}}
'''Party''' is a [[batching]] mechanic introduced in ''[[Zendikar Rising]]''.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/zendikar-rising-challenge-2020-09-01|''Zendikar Rising'' to the Challenge|[[Mark Rosewater]]|September 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|feature/zendikar-rising-release-notes-2020-09-10|''Zendikar Rising'' Release Notes|[[Eli Shiffrin]]|September 10, 2020}}</ref>
==Description==
A player's party consists of up to one each of creatures with four [[creature class]]es: [[Cleric]], [[Rogue]], [[Warrior]], and [[Wizard]]. A player controls a full party if that player fills all "party roles" with four different creatures of the appropriate types.<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/zendikar-rising-mechanics-2020-09-01|Zendikar Rising Mechanics|[[Matt Tabak]]|September 1, 2020}}</ref> Each creature in a player's party only fills one role, so, for example, a creature with [[Changeling]] will only count as one creature in the party, not four. ''[[Zendikar Rising]]'' contains creatures that count as all four party classes, such as <c>Tajuru Paragon</c>, which again can count for just one party role at a time. The reminder text does not specify creatures, but the rules do, so the Tribal equipment from [[Morningtide]] cannot contribute to the party.

Abilities that care about the number of creatures in a player's party simply look for a number between 0 and 4. A player never has to identify which creature is filling which role. These abilities will use that number in various ways. If there are multiple different ways you could count a player's party, resulting in different numbers, the player always gets the highest number. There are no choices involved.

Some cards have bonuses if a player ha's a "full party." This means all roles are filled: that player controls a Cleric, a Rogue, a Warrior, and a Wizard. Remember each of these must be different creatures, in case a creature has more than one party-relevant creature type.

<c>Stick Together</c> is a unique application of party by having each player choose a party to survive a [[board wipe]], one of the few non-numerical uses of it.

The creature-heavy and finnicky nature of achieving the payoff made Party poor in Constructed Magic, which greatly diminished its popularity, as few of the payoffs were worthwhile.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/lessons-learned-part-6|Lessons Learned, Part 6|[[Mark Rosewater]]|October 9, 2023}}</ref> As a solution for Tribal gameplay for ''[[Zendikar Rising]]'' it was lauded, but its design influence outside the set greatly outstripped its actual play rates. It landed at 8 on the Storm Scale.<ref name="Storm"/>

===Party cards and spells===
The [[designed-for-digital]] card <c>Angel of Unity</c> (''[[Alchemy: Innistrad]]'') expanded on the concept of Party not on the [[battlefield]], now referring to Cleric, Rogue, Warrior and Wizard as "Party spells" (on the stack) or Party creature cards (in your hand). This is either impractical or outright impossible with the paper rules, as if it were, {{Card|Thwart the Grave}}, {{Card|Tazri, Beacon of Unity}}, {{Card|Base Camp}} and {{Card|Nimble Trapfinder}} would be worded to refer to them as such. Unlike the original Party, which rewarded having all four creature types, the Angel of Unity version works just as well with any mix of the four, for example an all-cleric deck.

==Rules==
{{CR|glossary|Party}}
{{CR|glossary|Full Party}}
{{CR|700.8}}

==Examples==
{{examples|<c>Coveted Prize</c> {{4}}{{B}}<br/>Sorcery<br/> This spell costs {{1}} less to cast for each creature in your party. ''(Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)''<br/>Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. If you have a full party, you may cast a spell with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.}}

==Trivia==
* At one point in the design of ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', [[R&D]] was exploring "Megaparty", batching all the [[class]] [[creature type]]s.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/going-baldurs-gate-part-1-2022-05-23|Going Baldur's Gate, Part 1|[[Mark Rosewater]]|May 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{EzTumblr|https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/685093856758366208/in-todays-article-you-mention-the-team-looked-at|May 23, 2022}}</ref>
*The [[silver-bordered]] card {{card|Pinkie Pie}} stipulates that your party consists of each creature you control, and that your party is always full.

==References==
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