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Abaddon the Despoiler

Legendary Creature — Astartes Warrior · {2}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

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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What Abaddon the Despoiler actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · mark of chaos ascendantmark of chaos ascendant
• AbilityMark 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.

What an Abaddon the Despoiler deck needs

Plays as damage matters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• expensive spells only — cascade and free casts take the next cheaper card, so a cheap card is a defect
• damage and drain every turn (its effect is sized by the life the opponents lost this turn)

The Abaddon the Despoiler deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 14× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Abaddon the Despoiler

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Abaddon the Despoiler

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Abaddon the Despoiler is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Abaddon the Despoiler + Shrieking Drake + Lotus Bloom + Transplant Theorist4 decks
• Abaddon the Despoiler + Shrieking Drake + Lotus Bloom + Tomb Trawler2 decks
• Abaddon the Despoiler + Shrieking Drake + Lotus Bloom + Soldevi Digger1 decks
• Abaddon the Despoiler + Shrieking Drake + Lotus Bloom + Barkform Harvester1 decks
• Abaddon the Despoiler + Everflowing Chalice + Chromatic Sphere + Laboratory Maniac
• Abaddon the Despoiler + Everflowing Chalice + Chromatic Sphere + Jace, Wielder Of Mysteries

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