Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

When Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward enters the battlefield, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.

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Necramus on

3 months ago

Goldberserkerdragon Okay. I'm adding a few that came to mind:

Charming Prince- blinks, scrys, and can create loops with other blinkers.

Yorion, Sky Nomad - blink birb

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward - blink man that synergizes well with other parts of your deck ala Anointed Procession

Brago, King Eternal - King Blink

Ichor Wellspring - Generic card advantage that plays to the overall gameplan

Emry, Lurker of the Loch - artifact recursion/enables Lotus Petal loops with Displacer Kitten and something like Greaves or TY Elixer if you want to build in a combo

Lotus Petal - great value for 0 that plays to the gameplan and can be replayed fairly easily for mana advantage

Ephemerate - a sneaky instant that gets us value off blink payoffs while serving as a protection spell against targeted removal

Displacer Kitten - a combo engine that actually makes this deck just pop off

jzt0 on Abdel Adrian - Comboing Off …

5 months ago

My situation: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward has Assimilation Aegis in exile with his ability. Candlekeep Sage, White Plume Adventurer, and Prismatic Lens on board, with Werefox Bodyguard in hand. At the end of my turn, my friend casts an overloaded Cyclonic Rift. I respond by casting my Bodyguard, targeting Abdel. If we are now both fully tapped out, am I able to combo off to my heart’s desire, essentially winning through the Undercity losing 5 life (Trap Room), getting a large amount of mana through Lens, BEFORE his Cyclonic Rift resolves? Please let me know if I need to clarify! Thank you!!

Flarhoon13 on Daxos of Meletis, Soldiers of Fortune

5 months ago

Oct 11

Daxos of Meletis, Soldiers of Fortune won a long game with Strixhaven Stadium and Githzerai Monk. Granted, Jared was playing a Gonti, Canny Acquisitor precon and Josh was on pauper commander Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward. Josh threatened to go infinite with Archaeomancer but Jared had interaction, a Smirking Spelljacker for the counter. That gave me time to win through combat and kill Josh with Strixhaven Stadium (thanks, Nitpicking Nerds)

Flarhoon13 on Flarhoon13

5 months ago

May 3, 2024, I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Aug 22

Blaine's house

Tivit won, tried to win with Time Sieve but Thrashing Brontodon on board disenchanted it, thanks Varis, Silverymoon Ranger. Still, Tivit kept pounding, connecting for his Council's Dilemma trigger, and the deck overcame Kurtis's Terastodon triple Stone Rain. Illusion of Choice allowed my Plea for Power to be an extra turn spell. Inspiring Statuary with 13 Clue tokens enabled so much! Rune-Scarred Demon found Final Parting for Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward combo--I had the Animate Dead in my hand--Nevermaking Nevermaker all opponents' nonland permanents to the top of their libraries with infinite Tyvit triggers. Record goes to 25-27-1 for a .481 win percentage.

Nunu312 on Blink Commander

8 months ago

I'm not sure it's intended, but one of the largest problems with blink decks is that they naturally synergise into infinite combos. If that's what you're going for, then cool, but there is that split between groups who like it and groups that don't.

Any two sources of enter battlefield blink (Felidar Guardian, etc.) sets it off. The instant you put one down, you can target the other and you now have infinite creatures entering the battlefield.

The same thing can happen if you have three sources of enter battlefield temporary exile (Oblivion Ring, Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, etc.). You just create a loop where they exile each other in turn for infinite creatures entering the battlefield.

This can also lead to a bunch of super weird interactions, but as with most infinite combos you've already won the game anyway (unless you deck yourself with Candlekeep Sage).

Dabsolux on Pauper and PDH combos

11 months ago

I would like to create a list of all Pauper and PDH deck combos. Most of them are created by NateDiggity7 (Moxfield) and PenguinPete (MTG Salvation). Here some:

BG - Golgari

BR - Rakdos

C - Colorless

G - Green

RG - Gruul

UBG - Sultai

UB - Dimir

UG - Simic

URG - Temur

U - Blue

WB - Orzhov

WG - Selesnya

WR - Boros

WUB - Esper

WU - Azorius

ONLY PDH

BR - Rakdos

BG - Golgari

U - Blue

UR - Izzet

G - Green

UG - Simic

W - White

WG - Selesnya

FourDoughnut on Blood Bending - Awaken the Avatar

1 year ago

Nice deck! I started brewing AtBA almost immediately after seeing it spoiled and have been working on the deck making improvements/changes over time, and it is easily my favourite deck at the moment. One thing that I do differently with mine is focus more on low cost creatures that make tokens on ETB, things like Weaponcraft Enthusiast & Sengir Autocrat ideally as they make 2-3 tokens to get that first or second Blood Avatar cast, You're Confronted by Robbers is great also because it's an instant, Waylay is the cheapest way to make 3 tokens on your turn. Because of this I also run all the good reanimator spells, and since that includes Animate Dead I also run Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, which on it's own is also good, especially if you run a lot of mana rocks. I chose not to run Worldgorger Dragon for the infinite mana combo as it isn't good on its own, where Abdel Adrian is. Since you run Fury Storm I would consider running Storm-Kiln Artist for the combo potential, as he is also good for ramping off of instants/sorceries and synergizes with the toke doublers (get Mondrak out of the sideboard and into the 99). It also combos with Chain of Smog for infinite mana if you're into that (I'm not). Academy Rector is awesome for cheating in Anointed Procession if you're about to make tokens or City on Fire if you already have Blood Avatar(s). Roaming Throne from Lost Caverns of Ixilan is also good for the same reasons Isshin is, but it has Ward 2 and is colourless. I also run most of the lower cost extra combat cards to try to maximize the attack triggers, Goblin Goliath has been an (expensive) all-star. Any planeswalker with + ability that make tokens are also great.

There are so many different things you could focus on with this deck I find it hard just to narrow it down to the gameplan you're after, which is one of the things I love about it. The one thing my deck is lacking now is Lifelink, I'm looking at Teysa Karlov because vigilance is great too, but I don't focus too much on death triggers, so Whip of Erebos may take the spot.

Excited to see future updates on this! Will post my decklist eventually and link it here, interested to see your comments.

Delphen7 on Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + …

2 years ago

You can link cards by enclosing them in double brackets [ ].

This just makes it easier for everyone to know what's happening :)

Since they are exiled until the permanent returns, they will not be exiled by the trigger of the permanent you put into the graveyard as a result of the legend rule.

This is usually found on the rulings of the cards themselves, but Abdel apparently doesn't have it, so here are some similar cards.

Chained to the Rocks

  • "If Chained to the Rocks leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target creature won't be exiled. (2013-09-15)"

Suspension Field

  • "If Suspension Field leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the target creature won’t be exiled. (2014-09-20)"

Hixus, Prison Warden

  • "If Hixus leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the creature that dealt combat damage to you won’t be exiled. (2015-06-22)"

Grasp of Fate

  • "If Grasp of Fate leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, no nonland permanents will be exiled. (2015-11-04)"
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