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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
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (30)
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Tear Asunder
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Murderous Cut
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Demonic Consultation
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Noxious Revival
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Enchantments (1)
Lands (39)
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Botanical Sanctum
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Dreamroot Cascade
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (32)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (40)
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Badgermole Cub
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Viggo, Enforcer of Ig's Crossing
- 1 Grief
- 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
- 1 King of the Coldblood Curse
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Disciple of Freyalise
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Generous Ent
- 1 Oliphaunt
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
- 1 Mawloc
Sorceries (7)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mutavault
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (22)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Massacre
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Jeska's Will
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Elemental Eruption
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Pillage the Bog
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (21)
- 1 Cabal Ritual
- 1 Deadly Dispute
- 1 Mausoleum Secrets
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Flare of Duplication
- 1 Manamorphose
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Culling the Weak
- 1 Demonic Consultation
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Final Fortune
Artifacts (7)
Lands (32)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (15)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (21)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Massacre
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Jeska's Will
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Elemental Eruption
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Pillage the Bog
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (20)
- 1 Cabal Ritual
- 1 Deadly Dispute
- 1 Mausoleum Secrets
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Flare of Duplication
- 1 Manamorphose
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Culling the Weak
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Final Fortune
Artifacts (6)
Lands (32)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Massacre
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Jeska's Will
- 1 Storm of Memories
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Elemental Eruption
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Pillage the Bog
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (20)
- 1 Cabal Ritual
- 1 Deadly Dispute
- 1 Mausoleum Secrets
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Flare of Duplication
- 1 Manamorphose
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Ricochet Trap
- 1 Culling the Weak
- 1 Demonic Consultation
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Final Fortune
Artifacts (6)
Lands (32)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Geothermal Crevice
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
