When Abdel Adrian enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Abdel is a mono-white token engine that flickers your own nonland permanents to convert them into 1/1 Soldiers, then leverages a Background as a second commander to direct the strategy. You build a wide board, blink Abdel (or bounce/sacrifice and recast him) to exile high-impact permanents and reset their ETBs while banking armies of tokens, then close with anthems or aristocrats. Turn to turn you ramp into Abdel, deploy enchantments/artifacts/creatures with strong enters effects, and chain value off repeated flickers.
Generates massive token armies cheaply, scaling with your existing board
Background slot adds flexibility and a second free-to-cast commander effect
Reuses powerful ETB permanents (Abdel re-blinks them when he leaves)
Mono-white gives access to the best token anthems, board wipes, and recursion
Color-locked into white, so card draw and ramp are comparatively weak
Exiling your own permanents under Abdel is risky—removing him strands them temporarily
Token strategies fold to a single well-timed board wipe
Limited interaction outside of white removal staples
Cheaply blinks Abdel to retrigger his exile-and-token ability for value.
Pick a Background that matches your axis—Raised by Giants for Voltron, or a draw/aristocrats-leaning one for go-wide. Add efficient blink (Cloudshift, Eerie Interlude), token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak), and free sac outlets (Viscera Seer, Ashnod's Altar) to build resilient combo or drain finishes. Round out with mono-white staples Smothering Tithe, Esper Sentinel, and a strong removal/wrath suite to survive to your payoff turns.
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
