Abyssal Horror
Creature — Horror
Flying
When this creature enters, target player discards two cards.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #23786
Abyssal Horror costs six mana to make one opponent discard two cards — a floor so low that nearly any other six-drop outperforms it on rate. Flying and a discard trigger on attack aren't enough to justify the slot in any serious list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Abyssal Horror is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, six mana for a 2/2 flyer with a random discard effect spread across four players is far too diluted to matter — multiplayer scales the cost of targeted discard harshly. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a six-mana creature this fragile when the formats are defined by efficiency measured in fractions of mana. Oathbreaker operates on a compressed game clock where six mana rarely arrives in time for Abyssal Horror to do anything relevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Abyssal Horror sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its playability ceiling accurately. Don't expect movement — demand isn't there to push it, and it has no casual breakout potential to act as a floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.