Aboleth Spawn
Aboleth Spawn: Creature - Fish Horror, Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Fish Horror
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 2/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
- Released
- 2022-06-10
- Collector number
- 662
- Artist
- Sam Burley
- Commander rank
- 3,885 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Probing Telepathy, Ward, Flash
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About Aboleth Spawn
Aboleth Spawn is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), a draft-focused set released in June 2022. It is collector number 662 in that set, with art by Sam Burley. It costs {2}{U} (two generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from The List (2020) to Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.50 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.50 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Aboleth Spawn by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Aboleth Spawn
Aboleth Spawn has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #CLB-662 | Rare | 2026 |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #612 | Rare | 2022 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Aboleth Spawn, newest first.
- 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).
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Aboleth Spawn is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.