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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
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.86 0.02 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Stirring Wildwood$0.29 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.26 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 1 Woodland Cemetery$0.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Damnation
$15.62
0.06 tix - 1 Dromoka's Command
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix - 3 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix - 1 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix - 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Painful Truths
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.71
0.06 tix
- 1 Thragtusk
$0.26
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (23)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.87 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.34 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Doomsday
$2.86
0.10 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Infernal Contract
$0.79
1.35 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.46
1.05 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Time Spiral
$98.16
4.02 tix - 1 Void Snare
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 3 Xantid Swarm
$3.76
4.99 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.43
1.77 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.02
0.29 tix
- 2 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.75
3.09 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.46
1.05 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Tsabo's Web
$4.83
20.28 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
4
Final: 4 |
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
- 2 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.75 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.97 0.88 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.28 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.61 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.44 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.46 tix
- 1 Tranquil Thicket$0.09 0.03 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Engineered Plague
$7.89
9.55 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.38
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
$6.54
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.35
0.06 tix
- 1 Xenagos, the Reveler
$1.38
0.02 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 3 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.02
0.29 tix
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
$0.29
0.24 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.96 tix
- 1 Zuran Orb
$2.49
0.03 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Aetherling
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Ashen Rider
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Inkwell Leviathan
$0.49
0.02 tix - 1 Massacre
$0.46
1.05 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.54
1.60 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (11)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.78 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 3 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Chandra, Pyromaster
$0.47
0.02 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Feed the Clan
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 3 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 2 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
$0.16
0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Thrun, the Last Troll
$0.71
0.02 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Plague
$7.89
9.55 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.02
0.29 tix
- 2 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.47 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.44 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.54
1.60 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 2 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.44 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.61 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Disfigure
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$25.46
10.65 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.02
0.29 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.47 tix
- 3 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.47 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.54
1.60 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.78 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 4 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Bitterblossom
$32.75
0.02 tix
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix
- 3 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 3 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Olivia Voldaren
$3.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Shatterstorm
$0.30
0.15 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Spike Feeder
$0.49
0.45 tix
- 3 Kitchen Finks
$0.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Spellskite
$7.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
$13.19
0.02 tix
- 3 Restoration Angel
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Restoration Angel
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Archangel of Thune
$20.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Thragtusk
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 3 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Noble Hierarch
$10.28
0.24 tix
Sorceries (9)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arid Mesa$31.07 3.92 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.86 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.44 0.16 tix
- 1 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.26 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Crumble to Dust
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Fracturing Gust
$1.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Kor Firewalker
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.79
0.02 tix
- 1 Obzedat, Ghost Council
$0.94
0.02 tix
- 3 Path to Exile
$1.10
0.02 tix
- 2 Seal of Primordium
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Slaughter Games
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.45
0.10 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Scryb Ranger
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Tarmogoyf
$5.52
0.03 tix
- 1 Courser of Kruphix
$2.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.65
0.02 tix
- 3 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.65
0.02 tix
- 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thrun, the Last Troll
$0.71
0.02 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.67
0.72 tix - 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.05
0.09 tix
- 2 Qasali Pridemage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.41
2.17 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.41
2.17 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Lands (24)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.90 0.01 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.37 0.21 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.75 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.28 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.61 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.61 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.44 tix
- 1 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.05
0.09 tix
- 1 Krosan Grip
$0.77
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
$7.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.54
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.35
0.06 tix
- 2 Zealous Persecution
$0.14
0.03 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (24)
Instants (14)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (5)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$3.88
1.17 tix
- 1 Perish
$0.40
4.55 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.34
5.32 tix - 1 Urborg Justice
$3.26
0.25 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (23)
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.86 0.02 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.26 0.02 tix
- 2 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 1 Woodland Cemetery$0.44 0.02 tix
