Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration: Creature - Horror, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{B}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Creature - Horror
- Colour identity
- Blue and black (UB)
- Power / toughness
- */*
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 283
- Artist
- Karl Kopinski
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About Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and black creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 283 in that set, with art by Karl Kopinski. It costs {3}{U}{B} (three generic, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It is a */* creature. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 12 sets, from Gatecrash (2013) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.28 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Consuming Aberration by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration has been printed in 12 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations (FDN) #238 | Rare | 2024 |
| Foundations Promos (PFDN) #238s | Rare | 2024 |
| The List (PLST) #GK1-10 | Rare | 2024 |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #840 | Rare | 2022 |
| Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) #374 | Special | 2021 |
| Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) #89 | Rare | 2020 |
| GRN Guild Kit (GK1) #10 | Rare | 2018 |
| Commander 2016 (C16) #189 | Rare | 2016 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #47997 | Rare | 2015 |
| Gatecrash (GTC) #152 | Rare | 2013 |
| Gatecrash Promos (PGTC) #152★ | Rare | 2013 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Consuming Aberration, newest first.
- An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving.
- The ability that defines Consuming Aberration's power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield.
- If an opponent has no land cards in their library, all the cards from that library will be revealed and put into their graveyard.
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