Grand Abolisher

Creature — Human Cleric

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures or enchantments.

Legality

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
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

JackNavi on Convoking the Doublestrike Samurai Maiden

3 weeks ago

Heyo, Fellow Mono-W Voltron Enjoyer here. I think this list would work well with Myrel, Shield of Argive. Not only is she a Factory on Swing, love her Grand Abolisher static ability. Have fun and Voltron-on my guy!

capwner on I wanna be the evil …

2 months ago

White is the true evilest color

Drannith Magistrate Serra Ascendant Grand Abolisher Archon of Emeria Silence Smothering Tithe Farewell Rest in Peace Cataclysm *list* Humility

Red does have a lot more raw combo potential esp. when paired with black/blue. But once you start building like that you're getting into cEDH territory. All depends on the sort of deck you want to build. If you want to keep the flavor of your mono black i.e. reanimate-y combo-y sacrifice-y, with the insidious ability to tutor and win out of nowhere, I'd say Golgari or Rakdos are probably the best colors you could expand into. In general 1 or 2-color will have waaaaayyy more options in terms of specific commander synergies, as well as more powerful effects from your commander in general. (whereas more colors give you more flexibility and power ceiling, from using a wider card pool, but I think this can often make decks feel more generic). Green compliments black really well with its resilient ramp, creature+land tutors to assemble combos, and more flexible removal. While Rakdos decks are often insanely aggressive and stompy, with some of the scariest reanimation targets. Though you can also build them to be more focused on attrition, board control, and prison effects. On the other hand if you wanted to be more controlling and oppressive, you'd probably want to be Dimir, Esper, or Grixis--or WURB which I believe is the most popular cEDH color combo. Hope that helps and good luck building!

Azoth2099 on Rafiq, The One Hit Wonder

3 months ago

Hey man, you need more mana rocks! Consider your guild signets and talismans.

As far as defeating a BW control deck, I'd recommend just running more counter magic. Dovin's Veto & Permission Denied could be good choices! A few more silence effects like Silence, Grand Abolisher & Orim's Chant could go a long way as well.

Gidgetimer on Should I Keep Consuming Aberration …

4 months ago

I was suggesting it as a card that fits the deck. TBH I didn't notice the Myrel, Shield of Argive and kinda forget about her because she is worse in the decks that I usually run that effect in. But, yeah run Grand Abolisher for redundancy of the effect, it is a very good effect if you have room for both.

DreadKhan on lonely goth girl

4 months ago

Not sure if I mentioned it yet, but Gift of Doom is a really sneaky Black card, especially if your Commander makes tokens, you can cast it for 3 and as long as you've got a creature your Commander can gain Indestructible and Deathtouch at instant speed (and the opportunity to counter it was when you cast it as a Morph, so this is hard to get around, you can even use it vs Split Second effects, or something like Grand Abolisher). Deathtouch might not seem especially good, but if you have Trample as well it turns your creature into an almost unblockable terror as they only need to deal 1 damage to anything that blocks, and it won't care about damage being dealt to it. Gift is best used when it can cost an opponent a card somehow, hopefully letting you dodge removal or survive a dirty trick in combat, but it's also great in the face of a wipe since your Commander is all you need to keep if you've got Voltron set up. Once it's blanked a spell it still sticks around offering value. I love getting Gift on the same creature as Scavenged Brawler, all those keywords stack in a pretty impressive way.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Consuming Aberration …

4 months ago

Gidgetimer, I already have Myrel, Shield of Argive in my Sen Triplets deck, so are you suggesting Grand Abolisher for redundancy?

Gidgetimer on Should I Keep Consuming Aberration …

4 months ago

The Mimeoplasm seems like the type of deck that Consuming Aberration would thrive in. I would cut it from the other 2 decks.

I'm not sure how much my replacement suggestions are going to be to your liking since I feel like your decks need mana ramp and you have been resistant to that suggestion in the past. So I would add a talisman to each deck. Since they are replacing a UB creature Talisman of Dominance is the easy one to name off, but any from the "pain lands, but as artifacts" cycle would do. To fulfil your "preferably creatures" requirement I'd say Grand Abolisher in Sen Triplets and Plaguecrafter for Thraximundar.

DemonDragonJ on Mind Over Matter

5 months ago

I have replaced The Immortal Sun with Myrel, Shield of Argive, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.89 to 3.85, because she is a more powerful version of Grand Abolisher, so she clearly works with the theme of this deck.