Aboleth Spawn
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Fish Horror
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- The List #CLB-662 (rare)
- Price
- $2.29 USD
Flash
Ward {2}
Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Aboleth Spawn has 3 printings, first in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). EDHREC ranks it #3,900 among Commander cards. It appears most in Captain N'ghathrod decks (12,630 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Aboleth Spawn
- Mind Flayarrrs - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate, led by Captain N'ghathrod
- Odds and Ends - Secret Lair Commander, led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Commanders that run Aboleth Spawn most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Captain N'ghathrod: 12,630 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 5,704 decks
- Sonic the Hedgehog: 1,766 decks
- Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign: 1,278 decks
- Gogo, Master of Mimicry: 1,089 decks
- Chromium, the Mutable: 533 decks
- Errant and Giada: 505 decks
- Nymris, Oona's Trickster: 492 decks
Often played with Aboleth Spawn
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Aboleth Spawn's ability cares only about triggered abilities of the creature that's entering, not abilities of other permanents that trigger when that creature enters the battlefield.
- : Triggered abilities use the words "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition],[effect]."
- : If the ability is modal (that is, it has a bulleted list of choices), the copy will have the same mode(s). You can't choose new ones.
- : Effects that modify how a creature enters the battlefield are not triggered abilities and are not affected by Aboleth Spawn's ability. These include (but aren't limited to) entering the battlefield as a copy of another permanent, entering the battlefield with counters, and entering the battlefield tapped.
- : Aboleth Spawn's ability will always go on the stack on top of the entering creature's triggered ability that caused it to trigger. The copy it creates will be created on the stack on top of the entering creature's triggered ability and the copy will resolve before that ability.
- : The copy will have the same targets as the ability it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).