The Ruinous Powers (Copy) by user5606389

Format: Commander

Commander: Abaddon the Despoiler

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Abaddon the Despoiler leads a tempo-cascade Grixis deck that turns combat damage into a spell-chaining engine. The primary plan is to attack with Abaddon and other evasive Demons, then use the opponents' total life loss to cascade into midrange value spells, Demon beaters, and direct-damage payoffs. Be'lakor, the Dark Master acts as the hidden commander: he draws cards, and with Warstorm Surge and other Demon triggers he turns every subsequent Demon into repeatable damage. The deck controls the board with mass removal and flexible spot removal, and it can pivot from fair combat into explosive cascade turns. Its plan is straightforward but carefully sequenced: damage first, spells second, and a second combat from Bloodthirster to accelerate the total.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abaddon the Despoiler
  • 1 Aspiring Champion
  • 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 Cascade Bluffs
  • 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 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 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 Let the Galaxy Burn
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Lucius the Eternal
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mandate of Abaddon
  • 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 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sloppity Bilepiper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 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 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 Worn Powerstone