Smothering Abomination
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.
Combos with Smothering Abomination
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- The Locust God Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Nadir Kraken Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Nadir Kraken Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Nadir Kraken Thermopod Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Olivia, Mobilized for War Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Lyla, Holographic Assistant Basking Broodscale Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Junk Golem Animation Module Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Infinite rummaging
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Lyla, Holographic Assistant Animation Module Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite colorless mana
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2015-08-25
Sacrificing Smothering Abomination will cause its last ability to trigger.
- 2015-08-25
If Smothering Abomination is the only creature you control as its first triggered ability resolves, you must sacrifice it.
- 2015-08-25
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
- 2015-08-25
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
- 2015-08-25
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
- 2015-08-25
You choose which creature you control to sacrifice as the first triggered ability resolves. Players can respond to this ability triggering, but once you choose a creature to sacrifice, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- 2015-08-25
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
- 2015-08-25
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Smothering Abomination, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dina, Essence Brewer | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Master, Multiplied | 1 | 0 | — |
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Golgari 1 deck
- Rakdos 1 deck
Smothering Abomination price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #226 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.33 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Smothering Abomination
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.29
- Normal
- $0.33
- Foil
- $2.60
Promo
Battle for Zendikar Promos
- Foil
- $6.94
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Smothering Abomination. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
