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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 (11)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Haywire Mite
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
- 1 Devoted Druid
- 1 Fauna Shaman
- 1 Springheart Nantuko
- 1 Tower Winder
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Six
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Fiend Artisan
- 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Noble Hierarch
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
- 1 Voice of Resurgence
- 1 Mother of Runes
- 1 Nomads en-Kor
- 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
- 1 Walking Ballista
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Botanical Sanctum
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Forest
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Hushwood Verge
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Razorverge Thicket
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Bastion
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (27)
- 1 Remand
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Valakut Awakening
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Enlightened Tutor
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Raugrin Triome
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (34)
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Cosmic Rebirth
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Growth Spiral
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 No More Lies
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (40)
- 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 Gemstone Caverns
- 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 Gate
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Tireless Provisioner
- 1 Aftermath Analyst
- 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
- 1 Lotus Cobra
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
- 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
- 1 Six
- 1 Icetill Explorer
- 1 Dread Presence
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
- 1 Primeval Titan
- 1 Arboreal Grazer
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elvish Reclaimer
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
Sorceries (17)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Life from the Loam
- 1 Malevolent Rumble
- 1 Nature's Lore
- 1 Sylvan Scrying
- 1 Three Visits
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Culling Ritual
- 1 Search for Tomorrow
- 1 Splendid Reclamation
- 1 Raven's Crime
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Witherbloom Command
- 1 Green Sun's Zenith
- 1 Finale of Devastation
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (7)
Lands (47)
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Barren Moor
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cabal Coffers
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dark Depths
- 1 Drownyard Temple
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 7 Forest
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 1 Glacial Chasm
- 1 Golgari Rot Farm
- 1 Hickory Woodlot
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 3 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Thespian's Stage
- 1 Tranquil Thicket
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volrath's Stronghold
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (12)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (34)
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 2 Fabled Passage
- 2 Fabled Passage
- 1 Forest
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 2 Hushwood Verge
- 1 Indatha Triome
- 1 Island
- 1 Jetmir's Garden
- 2 Ketria Triome
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Plains
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Raugrin Triome
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Savai Triome
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Thornspire Verge
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Xander's Lounge
- 1 Zagoth Triome
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
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 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Orim's Chant
- 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
- 1 Unexpectedly Absent
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
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Oliphaunt
- 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 Keen-Eyed Curator
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 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 Forest
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Pendelhaven
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wastewood Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (32)
- 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 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 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
- 1 Unexpectedly Absent
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 (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (27)
- 1 Remand
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Valakut Awakening
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Enlightened Tutor
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Raugrin Triome
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
