Chaos by user4455626

Format: Commander

Creator: user4455626

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

The Ruinous Powers is a mid-tempo Grixis battlecruiser deck helmed by Abaddon the Despoiler. Its game plan revolves around deploying mana rocks in the early game, casting Abaddon on turn 5, and leveraging life loss from combat or burn spells to give subsequent spells cascade. On turns 7 through 9, the deck converts this mana and card velocity into massive board presence using high-impact Demons like Be'lakor, the Dark Master, Bloodthirster, and Lord of Change. Direct burn from Warstorm Surge and Demon ETB triggers combine with multiple combat phases to overwhelm opponents. Because the deck is an unupgraded preconstructed product, it trades raw speed and stack interaction for resilient mid-game value, relying on natural draws rather than tutors to find its win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Aspiring Champion
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master
  • 1 Bile Blight
  • 1 Bituminous Blast
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blight Grenade
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodcrusher of Khorne
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Defiler
  • 1 Chaos Mutation
  • 1 Chaos Terminator Lord
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Apostle
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deny Reality
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Drach'Nyen
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Helbrute
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Heralds of Tzeentch
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Kill! Maim! Burn!
  • 1 Knight Rampager
  • 1 Let the Galaxy Burn
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Lucius the Eternal
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mandate of Abaddon
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 1 Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mutalith Vortex Beast
  • 1 Noise Marine
  • 1 Nurgle's Conscription
  • 1 Nurgle's Rot
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pink Horror
  • 1 Plague Drone
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Seeker of Slaanesh
  • 1 Sloppity Bilepiper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tallyman of Nurgle
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Horus Heresy
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 The Ruinous Powers
  • 1 Tzaangor Shaman
  • 1 Venomcrawler
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worn Powerstone