The Ruinous Powers
Commander $175.42
100 cards
Bracket 2 by the list · Core
Blue: the colour is how well it does what Bracket 2 allows.
- The three dials average 72 for what Bracket 2 allows: that sets the colour.
- Power 17 counts as 68 here: Bracket 2 is for Power 25 and up. With Manabase 83 and Health 69, that is 72 on average (weights 40 / 30 / 30).
- No Game Changers, mass land denial or pile of extra turns: Core by the list. Exhibition (1) is about what a deck is for, and only you can say that.
- Combos are not checked yet.
Power 17: why
- Average mana value 4.32: it acts late
- 2 pieces of fast mana: Dark Ritual, Sol Ring
- No tutors: it sees its best cards only by drawing them
Manabase 83: why
- 20 sources make red, and it has a card costing {R}{R}: aim for about 26
- 21 sources make black, and it has a card costing {B}{B}: aim for about 26
- 6 lands always enter tapped
Health 69: why
- 13 spells cost 6 or more (21% of spells; aim under 10%)
- Only 4 ways to remove a threat (aim for 8)
- Only 8 ramp pieces (aim for 10)
◈ Commander
Abaddon the Despoiler
$1.65 Main deck (99)
Creatures 29
1
Aspiring Champion
3R $0.48
1
1
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
3UBR $3.58
1
1
Bloodcrusher of Khorne
3R $2.27
1
1
Bloodthirster
5R $25.26
1
1
Chaos Defiler
3BR $5.96
1
1
Chaos Terminator Lord
3R $0.42
1
1
Dark Apostle
3R $0.38
1
1
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
2UR $17.88
1
1
Great Unclean One
4B $4.37
1
1
Helbrute
3BR $0.33
1
1
Herald of Slaanesh
2R $4.87
1
1
Heralds of Tzeentch
4U $0.40
1
1
Keeper of Secrets
5R $7.41
1
1
Khârn the Betrayer
3R $5.72
1
1
Knight Rampager
4R $0.42
1
1
Lord of Change
6U $2.46
1
1
Lucius the Eternal
3BR $0.36
1
1
Magnus the Red
3UR $6.83
1
1
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
5B $0.77
1
1
Mutalith Vortex Beast
4UR $0.43
1
1
Noise Marine
4R $1.66
1
1
Pink Horror
3UR $0.58
1
1
Plague Drone
3B $2.27
1
1
Poxwalkers
2B $6.01
1
1
Seeker of Slaanesh
3R $0.39
1
1
Sloppity Bilepiper
3B $0.38
1
1
Tallyman of Nurgle
2B $0.40
1
1
Tzaangor Shaman
2UR $0.36
1
1
Venomcrawler
3B $1.18
1
Instants 10
1
Bile Blight
BB $0.31
1
1
Bituminous Blast
3BR $0.22
1
1
Blood for the Blood God!
8BBR $5.26
1
1
Brainstorm
U $2.54
1
1
Chaos Mutation
3UR $0.96
1
1
Chaos Warp
2R $0.85
1
1
Dark Ritual
B $4.72
1
1
Kill! Maim! Burn!
3BR $0.40
1
1
Nurgle's Conscription
4B $0.46
1
1
Reverberate
RR $3.93
1
Sorceries 7
1
Blasphemous Act
8R $2.83
1
1
Blight Grenade
4B $0.37
1
1
Decree of Pain
6BB $0.39
1
1
Deny Reality
3UB $0.35
1
1
Let the Galaxy Burn
X5R $0.52
1
1
Mandate of Abaddon
3B $3.58
1
1
Past in Flames
3R $2.46
1
Artifacts 10
1
Assault Suit
4 $0.38
1
1
Chromatic Lantern
3 $2.53
1
1
Commander's Sphere
3 $0.41
1
1
Drach'Nyen
4BR $0.37
1
1
Sol Ring
1 $2.53
1
1
Talisman of Creativity
2 $3.20
1
1
Talisman of Dominance
2 $1.31
1
1
Talisman of Indulgence
2 $3.70
1
1
Wayfarer's Bauble
1 $0.43
1
1
Worn Powerstone
3 $0.54
1
Enchantments 5
1
Nurgle's Rot
B $4.64
1
1
The Horus Heresy
3UBR $1.32
1
1
The Lost and the Damned
1UR $3.48
1
1
The Ruinous Powers
2BR $1.13
1
1
Warstorm Surge
5R $1.28
1
Lands 38
1
Barren Moor
$0.38
1
1
Command Tower
$0.69
1
1
Crumbling Necropolis
$0.49
1
1
Dismal Backwater
$0.22
1
1
Evolving Wilds
$0.20
1
1
Exotic Orchard
$0.32
1
1
Foreboding Ruins
$0.41
1
1
Forgotten Cave
$0.29
1
8
Island
$0.29
8
1
Molten Slagheap
$0.23
1
8
Mountain
$0.35
8
1
Path of Ancestry
$0.34
1
1
Sunken Hollow
$0.40
1
8
Swamp
$0.30
8
1
Swiftwater Cliffs
$0.33
1
1
Temple of the False God
$0.43
1
1
Terramorphic Expanse
$0.29
1
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2Bracket
2 · Core by the list. The bracket comes from Wizards' card rules alone; the colour says how well the deck does what Bracket 2 allows.
- The three dials average 72 for what Bracket 2 allows: that sets the colour.
- Power 17 counts as 68 here: Bracket 2 is for Power 25 and up. With Manabase 83 and Health 69, that is 72 on average (weights 40 / 30 / 30).
- No Game Changers, mass land denial or pile of extra turns: Core by the list. Exhibition (1) is about what a deck is for, and only you can say that.
- Combos are not checked yet.
17Power
How fast and how hard this deck can take over a game. Absolute: about 90 and up is cEDH, so a casual deck scores low on purpose.
Casual
- Average mana value 4.32: it acts late
- 2 pieces of fast mana: Dark Ritual, Sol Ring
- No tutors: it sees its best cards only by drawing them
- 0 answers at mana value 2 or less
- 11 cards that draw or dig
83Manabase
Can it cast its spells on time, in its colours?
Good
- 20 sources make red, and it has a card costing {R}{R}: aim for about 26
- 21 sources make black, and it has a card costing {B}{B}: aim for about 26
- 6 lands always enter tapped
- 38 lands, counting ramp ≈ 41.3 sources: short of the ≈42 a deck at mana value 4.32 wants
69Health
Does it have the parts every Commander deck needs: ramp, cards, answers, and a curve it can cast?
Fair
- 13 spells cost 6 or more (21% of spells; aim under 10%)
- Only 4 ways to remove a threat (aim for 8)
- Only 8 ramp pieces (aim for 10)
- 11 cards that draw or dig ✓
- 6 board wipes ✓
Scores read the list alone, from each card's own rules text: they can't see how a deck is played. Bracket names and the Game Changers list are Wizards of the Coast's (Commander Brackets, list as Wizards last changed it, 9 February 2026).
Led by Abaddon the Despoiler. A blue-black-red Commander deck built around spellslinging, on a Demon kindred base. 30 creatures, 38 lands, average mana value 4.32.
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