New Untitled Deck by NodrogDOW

Format: Commander

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a high-octane Grixis burn and cascade engine commanded by Abaddon the Despoiler. The strategy focuses on dealing incremental group-wide damage during the early turns using efficient pingers like Thermo-Alchemist and Creeping Bloodsucker or group slug enchantments like Descent into Avernus. Once Abaddon enters the battlefield, this accumulated life loss grants cascade to high-impact spells cast from hand, triggering cascading chains of free spells. The mid-to-late game accelerates rapidly through explosive mana engines like Neheb, the Eternal and damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Wound Reflection. While the deck lacks stack-based countermagic, its cast-trigger velocity and redundant damage sources make it resilient against single pieces of removal. It consistently threatens to end games on turns 6 to 7 with massive table-wide burn spells such as Exsanguinate and Blood for the Blood God!.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Ancestral Vision
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Davros, Dalek Creator
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Kill! Maim! Burn!
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 See the Truth
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sol Talisman
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 The Ruinous Powers
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wheel of Fate
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wound Reflection