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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 | 59 | 2.9 | 332 | 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
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (24)
Instants (13)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gavony Township$4.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Stirring Wildwood$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 2 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix - 2 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix - 2 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix - 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 4 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Liliana of the Veil
$4.86
0.72 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$3.99
1.17 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Perish
$0.40
4.70 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Demise
$0.24
0.03 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix
- 1 Urborg Justice
$3.22
0.25 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gavony Township$4.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gavony Township$4.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Stirring Wildwood$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gavony Township$4.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Stirring Wildwood$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 4 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Bitterblossom
$32.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$3.99
1.17 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Perish
$0.40
4.70 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Demise
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix
- 1 Urborg Justice
$3.22
0.25 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (24)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.85 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.27 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.78 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 3 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.36 0.06 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.84 2.49 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 4 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix - 1 Huntmaster of the Fells
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix - 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Obstinate Baloth
$0.18
0.02 tix
- 1 Painful Truths
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Shatterstorm
$0.30
0.15 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Unravel the Aether
$0.24
0.03 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (25)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.59 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$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.67 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.40 tix
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 3 Chill
$0.62
11.55 tix
- 2 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.45 tix - 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 4 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.52
0.03 tix - 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.80 tix - 1 Birchlore Rangers
$0.84
0.05 tix
- 3 Heritage Druid
$3.02
0.23 tix
- 1 Llanowar Elves
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.28
0.08 tix
- 4 Quirion Ranger
$1.49
0.65 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.22
0.03 tix
Sorceries (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.87 tix
- 2 Barren Moor$0.15 0.03 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.72 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.90 1.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.60 3.02 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.51 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 4.10 tix
- 1 Tranquil Thicket$0.09 0.03 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Engineered Plague
$7.89
9.80 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.43
0.08 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 3 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.13
3.79 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.05
0.10 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
18.36 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (24)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Stirring Wildwood$0.29 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.10
0.01 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$25.46
10.21 tix - 1 Force of Will
$25.46
10.21 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.22
0.02 tix - 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.47 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 2 Mana Drain
$50.98
0.40 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.59 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.67 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.40 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.40 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 3 Chill
$0.62
11.55 tix
- 2 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.45 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix