Abandon
Abandon is an uncommon-rarity spell card from Riftbound's Unleashed set. It costs 2 Energy. It belongs to the Chaos domain. It has the Reaction keyword. It appears in 9% of tracked tournament decks whose legend can run it.
2 Energy | Spell | Chaos | uncommon | Unleashed | Art: Kudos Productions
Rules Text
[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Counter a spell. Return it to its owner's hand instead of putting it in their trash. [Predict]. (Look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.)
Keywords
Domain: Chaos
Meta Statistics
Inclusion rate 8.8%. Win rate 49.7% across 204 decks with results.
Price
Market price $0.45 on TCGPlayer, updated Oct 6, 2026. Since Apr 9, 2026 its market price has ranged from $0.26 to $1.61. It is $0.45, down 15% from $0.53 30 days ago.
Related FAQ (2)
What happens when you play Abandon on a spell that was played for its Flow cost?
It will be banished when it attempts to leave the chain. Flow's "then banish it" means that if the spell would leave the chain after becoming a finalized chain item, and leaving wasn't instructed by its own execution, it is banished instead. Abandon returns the countered card toward hand, but that is still leaving the chain, so the Flow spell is banished. The same applies to effects like Kai'Sa, Evolutionary and Fizz, Trickster.
Can my opponent play Abandon on my spell while I control an empowered Mel, Newly Awakened? What happens?
They can play it, but on resolution they Predict and nothing else happens. Mel says your spells and abilities can't be countered, so Abandon's counter fails; the event of the spell going to the Trash never occurs, so Abandon's replacement (return it to hand) has nothing to replace. The replacement only functions during Abandon's resolution, so when the spell resolves later it goes to the Trash as normal.
Tournament Decks
- Kennen — Subops Peninha (9W-0L), Convergence #2
- Annie — Canon Black (7W-2L), RiftAtlas Convergence #1
- Diana — Kendall Burdette (7W-3L), CCS $25,000 Riftbound Invitational Qualifier #3
- Miss Fortune — Paul Carpenella (7W-2L), CCS $25,000 Riftbound Invitational Qualifier #3
- Vex — Matthew V Agriesti (6W-4L), CCS $25,000 Showdown Series Event - Riftbound Invitational Qualifier #5
Related Cards
- Defy — 1 Energy, Spell
- Discipline — 2 Energy, Spell
- Stupefy — 1 Energy, Spell
- Defiant Dance — 1 Energy, Spell
- En Garde — 1 Energy, Spell
- Gust — 1 Energy, Spell
- Thrill of the Hunt — 2 Energy, Spell
- Star-Crossed — 3 Energy, Spell