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Smothering Abomination

Card Name

Smothering Abomination

Mana Cost

2

Type

Creature – Eldrazi

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Devoid (This card has no color.)FlyingAt the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Standard

Rulings

(8/25/2015)
You choose which creature you control to sacrifice as the first triggered ability resolves. Players can respond to this ability triggering, but once you choose a creature to sacrifice, it's too late for anyone to respond.
(8/25/2015)
If Smothering Abomination is the only creature you control as its first triggered ability resolves, you must sacrifice it.
(8/25/2015)
Sacrificing Smothering Abomination will cause its last ability to trigger.
(8/25/2015)
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
(8/25/2015)
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
(8/25/2015)
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
(8/25/2015)
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
(8/25/2015)
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.