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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 (10)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
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 Traverse the Ulvenwald
- 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 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
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
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 Traverse the Ulvenwald
- 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 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
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (33)
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Kaya's Guile
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (41)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Hinterland Harbor
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (19)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Merchant Scroll
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Solve the Equation
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Lórien Revealed
- 1 Unburial Rites
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Pillage the Bog
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Serum Visions
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
- 1 Prismatic Ending
Instants (25)
- 1 Shred Memory
- 1 Flash
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Worldly Tutor
- 1 Auroral Procession
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Eladamri's Call
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Muddle the Mixture
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Enlightened Tutor
- 1 Orim's Chant
- 1 Path to Exile
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
Instants (16)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (31)
- 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 Consult the Star Charts
- 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 (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (33)
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Kaya's Guile
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (41)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Hinterland Harbor
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (35)
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 2 Breeding Pool
- 4 Fabled Passage
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Forest
- 2 Hushwood Verge
- 1 Indatha Triome
- 1 Island
- 2 Jetmir's Garden
- 2 Ketria Triome
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Plains
- 1 Raugrin Triome
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Sunbillow Verge
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Thornspire Verge
- 1 Wastewood Verge
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Xander's Lounge
- 2 Zagoth Triome
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Kavaero, Mind-Bitten
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Oliphaunt
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Noble Hierarch
- 1 Territorial Kavu
- 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
- 1 Mawloc
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Aragorn, King of Gondor
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Noble Hierarch
- 1 Territorial Kavu
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
- 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Sorceries (9)
Instants (24)
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Worldly Tutor
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Essence Flux
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Cloudshift
- 1 Enlightened Tutor
- 1 Ephemerate
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Forest
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Horizon of Progress
- 1 Island
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
