RakdosLegendary Creature — Human WizardAsmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
Mana value0Rank#11,935
The Commander
As long as you've discarded a card this turn, you may pay 
to cast this spell.
When Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar enters, you may search your library for a card named The Underworld Cookbook, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sacrifice two Foods: Target creature deals 6 damage to itself.
Guide
Gameplan
Asmo is a cheap, recursive engine commander that turns Food tokens into card advantage, removal, and graveyard value. You discard cheaply-recurred cards to cast her for one mana, fetch The Underworld Cookbook on ETB, then loop Foods to draw, kill creatures, and fuel aristocrats/madness payoffs. The deck grinds out value until a combo or wide board ends the game.
Strengths
- One-mana commander that's hard to keep off the board and reduces the commander tax burden
- Built-in tutor for The Underworld Cookbook gives a consistent Food/discard engine every game
- Discard synergies enable cheap recursion, madness, and graveyard payoffs
- Repeatable creature removal via the sac-two-Foods ability
Weaknesses
- Engine is heavily reliant on Cookbook and Food generators; graveyard or artifact hate sets you back hard
- Low individual card power — grindy and slow to actually close games
- Removal ability requires sacrificing two Foods, which is slow without strong Food production
- Vulnerable to commander hate since the whole plan leans on her cheap recursion
Key Cards
- The Underworld Cookbook — The deck's core engine — discard outlet that makes Food, which fuels everything Asmo wants to do.
- Witch's Oven — Combos with Cauldron Familiar and produces Food to feed Asmo's removal and Cookbook draws.
- Cauldron Familiar — Recurs from the graveyard by eating Food, draining each opponent and creating an aristocrats loop.
- Trash for Treasure — Reanimates big artifacts at a discount while feeding discard synergies.
- Mayhem Devil — Turns all the Food sacrifice and creature death into repeatable ping damage, a real win condition.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and efficient discard outlets (Faithless Looting, Bone Miser, Necropotence) to accelerate the engine, then tighten the aristocrats package around Mayhem Devil, Cauldron Familiar, and additional Food producers. Include strong recursion (Bag of Holding, Underworld Breach) and a compact combo finish to avoid stalling out in grindy games, plus interaction like Deadly Rollick and graveyard protection to survive removal-heavy tables.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Mayhem Devil pinging the table as Food and tokens are sacrificed repeatedly
- ▸Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven loop draining all opponents
- ▸Going wide with reanimated threats and grinding incremental card advantage
- ▸Big reanimated artifacts/creatures via Trash for Treasure closing the game
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Cauldron Familiar plus Witch's Oven and Mayhem Devil convert Food sacrifice into incremental drain.
- Food Tokens — Cookbook and Asmo make Food the central resource for draw, removal, and lifegain.
- Graveyard Value/Reanimator — Cheap discard outlets bin powerful artifacts and creatures to recur or reanimate.
- Spellslinger/Madness — Discarding to cast Asmo and Cookbook enables madness cards and cheap impulsive value.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
