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Consuming Aberration

Creature — Horror

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
rare
Set
Foundations
Price
$0.38
EDHREC rank
#1599
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Consuming Aberration card art
Consuming Aberration hits the board as a threat whose power grows with every spell cast — milling opponents equal to the cards in their graveyard each time you play something is a feedback loop that compounds fast. The five-mana price tag is real, but Phenax, God of Deception and Captain N'ghathrod both turn it into a win condition the turn it lands.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Captain N'ghathrod

Captain N'ghathrod

94.9% of decks · synergy 0.80

Captain N'ghathrod mills on every combat damage trigger, and Consuming Aberration's mill-on-spell ability stacks alongside it to drain graveyards from multiple angles simultaneously. At a 94.9% inclusion rate, it's essentially mandatory in that shell.

02
Phenax, God of Deception

Phenax, God of Deception

86.4% of decks · synergy 0.71

Phenax, God of Deception taps creatures to mill equal to their toughness, and Consuming Aberration grows its own toughness off the graveyard count — so the mill loop literally makes itself bigger with each activation. It's the premier threat in Phenax lists.

03
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

72.8% of decks · synergy 0.58

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind wants opponents' graveyards stocked with creatures to copy, and Consuming Aberration does the stocking while doubling as a board presence. The two pieces reinforce the same game plan without overlap.

04
Saruman of Many Colors

Saruman of Many Colors

56.1% of decks · synergy 0.55

Saruman of Many Colors rewards casting spells with amass triggers, and Consuming Aberration adds a mill punishment on top of every spell you fire — the two effects share a trigger condition, so each spell does double duty. That synergy pushes Consuming Aberration into over half of Saruman lists.

05
Lord Xander, the Collector

Lord Xander, the Collector

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.51

Lord Xander, the Collector punishes opponents through discard and mill, and Consuming Aberration's escalating mill fits cleanly alongside that attrition plan. The combination pressures hand, deck, and board simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Consuming Aberration lives — three opponents means three graveyards filling up, and the mill-on-spell trigger scales with table size in a way it simply doesn't in one-on-one formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's too slow at five mana and too fragile without protection to compete with the threats and interaction those formats demand. Standard legality is technically true, but a five-mana 0/0 that needs graveyard setup to be relevant doesn't map onto aggressive or midrange standard environments well. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons Commander is — redundant opponents, longer games, and mill-synergy planeswalkers like Jace, Memory Adept give it a real axis to operate on.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.38 bulk tier

At $0.38, Consuming Aberration is deep bulk — you're picking it up out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a price site. Demand is steady given its 94%+ inclusion in Captain N'ghathrod builds, but supply is high enough that the price has no meaningful floor to speak of.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.