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Abaddon the Despoiler

Abaddon the Despoiler

Legendary Creature — Astartes Warrior

Abaddon the Despoiler wants a deck that casts extra spells for free off the top of its deck. It leads the ready-made The Ruinous Powers deck (2022).

  • Mana cost2 genericblueblackred
  • Blue, Black, Red ()
  • Power / toughness5 / 5
  • RarityMythic

Trample

Mark of Chaos Ascendant — During your turn, spells you cast from your hand with mana value X or less have cascade, where X is the total amount of life your opponents have lost this turn.

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Cards That Fit Abaddon the Despoiler

Picked for what they do in Abaddon the Despoiler's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Abaddon the Despoiler's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Decks Led by Abaddon the Despoiler

Abaddon the Despoiler leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Abaddon the Despoiler, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryUBRPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue, B for black, R for red. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.Cascade/Free CastCascade decks cast extra spells for free, straight from the top of their deck, every time they cast the right card. Cascade turns over cards from the top of your library until it hits a cheaper spell, which you may cast without paying for it.Open the Cascade/Free Cast pageFree CastCan be cast without paying its mana cost when a condition is met, often "if you control your commander". Because it costs nothing, you can still answer something after your mana is already spent. Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting SwatOpen the Free Cast pageKeyword EnablerGives a whole group of your spells a keyword that changes how you cast them, such as improvise, cascade, convoke or flash. Inspiring Statuary, Imoti, Celebrant of BountyOpen the Keyword Enabler page