Warham by user3502524

Format: Commander

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis spellslinger and group slug engine commanded by Abaddon the Despoiler. The strategy focuses on applying consistent early damage to all opponents through efficient pingers like Coruscation Mage, Vivi Ornitier, and Guttersnipe, or symmetrical burn spells like Flame Rift. Once Abaddon enters the battlefield, this accumulated life loss grants cascade to high-value spells cast from hand, triggering chains of free spells. These cascades deploy extra turn spells such as Time Warp and explosive exile-cast payoffs like Keeper of Secrets and Passionate Archaeologist. Mana velocity is sustained through explosive rituals like Jeska's Will, Mana Geyser, and Neheb, the Eternal, while card flow is refueled by massive draw spells such as Blood for the Blood God! and Niv-Mizzet, Visionary. The deck achieves victory through compounding noncombat damage and relentless spell velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Aid the Fallen
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Arrester's Admonition
  • 1 Aurora Phoenix
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bituminous Blast
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Beckoning
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Deny Reality
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heralds of Tzeentch
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Kill! Maim! Burn!
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pink Horror
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Stagecoach
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Torrent
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Xander's Lounge