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Abrupt Decay 
Instant
Oracle Text
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Abrupt Decay, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer | 62 | 2.9 | 335 | 2.4 |
| Duel Commander | 4 | 1 | 151 | 1 |
| Vintage | 9 | 2.4 | 109 | 1.7 |
| Legacy | 3 | 1.5 | 54 | 1.7 |
| Modern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1.7 |
Details
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 78
Non-foilBorderless
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Abrupt Decay
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix - 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix - 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix - 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Mana Confluence$34.12 0.45 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.86
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix - 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Virulent Plague
$0.20
0.03 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (21)
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (19)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 1 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 3 Illness in the Ranks
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 2 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.43
0.03 tix - 3 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.73 tix - 1 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.73 tix
- 2 Birchlore Rangers
$0.82
0.06 tix
- 3 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.23 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 4 Quirion Ranger
$1.48
0.70 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
Sorceries (11)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Darkblast
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Dead Weight
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 4 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.43
0.03 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.73 tix
- 2 Birchlore Rangers
$0.82
0.06 tix
- 3 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.23 tix
- 1 Llanowar Elves
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 3 Nettle Sentinel
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 3 Quirion Ranger
$1.48
0.70 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
Lands (20)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (22)
Instants (13)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
- 4 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.43
0.03 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.73 tix
- 2 Birchlore Rangers
$0.82
0.06 tix
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
$1.94
0.04 tix
- 3 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.23 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 3 Quirion Ranger
$1.48
0.70 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
Lands (19)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (17)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix - 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.45 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 4 Uba Mask
$9.92
0.02 tix - 1 Memory Jar
$37.32
0.36 tix
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Gemstone Mine$2.14 9.10 tix
- 4 Glimmervoid$1.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Batterskull
$3.27
0.02 tix
- 3 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Inkwell Leviathan
$0.50
0.02 tix - 1 Lost Legacy
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Reverent Silence
$0.36
5.33 tix
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (20)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Expedition Map
$1.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Chromatic Lantern
$0.82
0.02 tix
- 1 Coalition Relic
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$37.32
0.36 tix
- 1 Mindslaver
$2.57
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Lands (16)
- 1 Barbarian Ring$0.25 0.06 tix
- 1 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 1 Buried Ruin$0.36 0.03 tix
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum$0.28 0.03 tix
- 4 Glimmervoid$1.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Inventors' Fair$15.32 0.02 tix
- 2 Mana Confluence$34.12 0.45 tix
- 3 Mishra's Workshop$3000.97 11.46 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Chains of Mephistopheles
$1183.06
1.03 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ray of Revelation
$0.15
0.04 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (20)
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (21)
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Mana Confluence$34.12 0.45 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.86
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Virulent Plague
$0.20
0.03 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Seal of Primordium
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.64
8.29 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 2 Dark Confidant
$3.89
0.02 tix
- 2 Dark Confidant
$3.89
0.02 tix
- 4 Mayor of Avabruck
$0.50
0.02 tix
- 2 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 3 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.73 tix
- 3 Qasali Pridemage
$0.17
0.03 tix
Instants (5)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (19)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 2 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (10)
Lands (20)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.22 tix
- 1 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.22 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glissa, the Traitor
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
