Spoiled Astartes by Serzano

Format: Commander

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Grixis group slug and cascade storm deck commanded by Abaddon the Despoiler. It turns table-wide life loss into continuous mana and card advantage. Fast mana artifacts and rituals accelerate your board in the early turns, while low-cost pingers such as Spear Spewer and Thermo-Alchemist chip away at opponent life totals. Once Abaddon enters the battlefield, dealing damage to all three opponents unlocks high-mana cascade triggers, allowing you to cast spells from hand while cascading into free draw spells, tutors, and burn. The deck closes games using damage multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Heartless Hidetsugu, or explosive burst spells like Blood for the Blood God!. Backed by free interaction including Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat, the deck protects its key threats while dismantling opposing boards with asymmetric sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
• 1 Ad Nauseam
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancestral Vision
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Black Waltz No. 3
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood for the Blood God!
• 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1 Bloodthirster
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiendish Duo
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 6 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Keeper of Secrets
• 1 Lavaspur Boots
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Vault
• 12 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Neheb, the Eternal
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Passionate Archaeologist
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Profane Tutor
• 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
• 1 Pyretic Ritual
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Spear Spewer
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Underworld Breach
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
• 1 Wheel of Fortune
• 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer