Can you move your Commander to the command zone at any time?

If a Commander would be put into a library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, its owner may choose to move it to the command zone instead. This is a replacement effect.

Can you put your Commander in your library?

A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it’s been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

Can you shuffle your Commander into a library?

You may cast your commander from the command zone whenever you have the mana to pay its cost. Anytime your commander would be destroyed, exiled, or shuffled into your library, you can return it to the command zone instead.

Can you use your commanders abilities from the command zone?

While in the command zone, your commander’s abilities won’t affect the game unless those abilities specifically say they do. You may cast your commander from the command zone. Each time you do, it costs 2 more to cast for each time you’ve previously cast it from the command zone during the game.

Can commanders be bounced to hand?

Previously a Commander acted as normal if returned to its owner’s hand or placed into his or her library (this act was known as tucking the Commander). Now, if a Commander would be returned to its owner’s library or hand it can be moved to the Command Zone instead as a replacement effect.

Can Chaos Warp target a commander?

Chaos Warp will still have the commander’s owner reveal the top card of their library and put it on the battlefield if it is a permanent, and Oblation will still have the commander’s owner draw two cards.

Can you tap a Commander in the command zone?

Mayael’s ability, like most abilities, only functions on the battlefield. It doesn’t function in the command zone. Also, only things on the battlefield can have the “tapped” status (or any status at all).

Can a commander be put into the command zone?

If a commander would be put into its owner’s graveyard from anywhere, that player may put it into the command zone instead. You quoted the wrong rule, but the answer two both situations is the same. 903.11. If a commander would be put into its owner’s graveyard from anywhere, that player may put it into the command zone instead.

When do you change zones can a commander be remade?

The choice must be made immediately, but can be remade whenever the commander changes zones. For example, if you allow your commander to go to the graveyard, and then a card is played to exile your graveyard, you can once again choose to send your commander to the command zone instead.

What happens when you send your commander to the graveyard?

For example, if you allow your commander to go to the graveyard, and then a card is played to exile your graveyard, you can once again choose to send your commander to the command zone instead. Once your commander has arrived somewhere (exile, graveyard), it stays there until a card tells it to move. For completeness, the graveyard rule: