CASCADE by user9336115

Format: Commander

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis spell-slinger cascade strategy helmed by Abaddon the Despoiler. The primary game plan is to accelerate into Abaddon as early as possible, then use cheap damage spells and pinging creatures to raise the life-loss threshold, enabling every spell cast from hand to have cascade. The cascade triggers chain into extra turns, wheels, and mana generation, eventually overwhelming opponents with value and multiple combat steps. The deck includes a compact infinite mana combo with Birgi, God of Storytelling and Grinning Ignus, and can also win through Peer into the Abyss or direct damage via Twinflame Tyrant and Urabrask's saga. The secondary win condition is combat damage from Abaddon and other creatures, often doubled by Twinflame Tyrant.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Ancestral Vision
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordyceps Excision
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Endwalker
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lotus Bloom
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sol Talisman
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fate
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zidane Tribal