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The Howling Abomination

The Howling Abomination

Legendary Creature — Human Beast Warrior · {3}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

Haste The Howling Abomination has trample as long as you've cast three or more spells this turn. Whenever The Howling Abomination becomes the target of a spell, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn and deals 2 damage to each opponent.
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What The Howling Abomination actually does

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

What a The Howling Abomination deck needs

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

The The Howling Abomination deck plan

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

Best cards for The Howling Abomination

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Crash Through1 mana
  5. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  8. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana

Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Sword of the Animist2 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Paradise Mantle0 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  3. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Gruul War Chant4 mana
  6. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  7. Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Beast Within3 mana
  3. Nature's Claim1 mana
  4. Crush1 mana
  5. Emerald Charm1 mana
  6. Naturalize2 mana
  7. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  8. Natural State1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Summoner's Pact0 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  5. Mizzium Mortars2 mana
  6. Delete2 mana
  7. Earthquake1 mana
  8. Needle Storm3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Sticky Fingers1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Gruul Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Combos with The Howling Abomination

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Howling Abomination is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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