Abzan Discussion

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Posted on Sept. 4, 2014, 9:12 p.m. by usohatchi

So what do you guys think about the Abzan?

I personally love the clan and want to play it as a midrangy/grindy hard to kill deck with Abzan Ascendancy and a couple board wipes so i can recover and beat my opponent to death. Still, I'm kind of dissapointed about the whole "Control Junk Color" thing Wizards built up cause the Clan doesn't seem controly at all, and the other non-control decks having counters hurts it's ability to be controlly a lot.

So what do you guys think?

notamardybum says... #2

I think you dont need counters to be control, but the abzan cards released so far dont scream control to me either

September 4, 2014 10:18 p.m.

NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #3

I'm upset by their mechanic. It seems like it will only be "good" in the very late game, and only then if there's a serious board stall. You can't really bank on activating it in the midgame because making a creature +1 bigger is usually strictly worse than adding another creature.

September 4, 2014 11:31 p.m.

usohatchi says... #4

@notamardybum, yeah i agree you don't need counters to be controlly, but they haven't printed any acually decent early game removal spells for Abzan. They got a 7 mana boardwipe and a 4 mana kill spell, there's no way that'll hold over the madru/rabblemaster aggro rush, and the other clans all have blue in them, so they can just counter that pesky Duneblast .

September 5, 2014 1:15 a.m.