New Untitled Deck by BuryYourDeadXIII

Format: Commander

Creator: BuryYourDeadXIII

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger shell commanded by Abaddon the Despoiler, focused on weaponizing opponent life loss to grant cascade to spells cast from hand. The game plan centers on ramping into Abaddon on Turns 4–5, initiating life loss through combat or incidental burn, and chaining spells together to generate compounding card velocity and board presence. Rather than relying on infinite combos, the deck overwhelms opponents with redundant damage triggers from cards like Black Waltz No. 3 and Pink Horror, backed by swarm payoffs like The Lost and the Damned and Balmor, Battlemage Captain. Interaction is balanced between targeted removal, flexible counterspells, and board wipes like Let the Galaxy Burn. Its primary vulnerability stems from reliance on high-cost creature permanents that lack intrinsic protection, making properly timed development and sequencing crucial to converting cascade value into a lethal table finish by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Abandon Attachments
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blight Grenade
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deny Reality
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Enraged Flamecaster
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedite
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flamecache Gecko
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Let the Galaxy Burn
  • 1 Maestros Charm
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Malcolm, the Eyes
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pink Horror
  • 1 Professor Zei, Anthropologist
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rootha, Mercurial Artist
  • 1 Rubble Rouser
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sister of Silence
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Creation of Avacyn
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Voldaren Epicure
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Witch's Mark