Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn’t you tell the world, EH?
Art: Abaddon the Despoiler
by Johan Grenier
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Welcome to another installment of Brewed CEDH:
Todays Featured Commander is:
Abaddon the Despoiler is one of the Warhammer 40k commanders and he is a ton of fun. Any commander that allows us to cascade is always a good time. Though Abaddon is constantly compared to yidris, which is a rightful comparison as they do a lot of the same things. Abaddon is a still a fun grixis spellpile commander.
The Deck:
Abaddon's Doomsday Pile
Why Abaddon the Despoiler?
There are many great explosive spellpile commanders in CEDH, we chose Abaddon for two main reasons he is in grixis and he can give us free spells. Even with something as simple with a lightning bolt we can cast nearly our entire deck with so many low costed spells we can hit with Cascade. While Abaddon may not be Yidris he is still a fun and well positioned CEDH commander.
Deck Overview:
This deck really has two plans of attack one with Abaddon / without Abaddon, in games where we have him we can utilize cards like Lightning Bolt
and Flame Rift
to be able to hit most of our cascade combos in our deck. Without him we are a straight grixis doomsday deck with the usual suspects such as Demonic Consultation
Thassa's Oracle
as well as Tainted Pact
. Our secondary combo is Bolas's Citadel
with Aetherflux Reservoir
and Sensei's Divining Top
. Our last possible combo is Lion's Eye Diamond
and Brain Freeze
plus Underworld Breach
. Other than that since this cedh we have a lot of ways to stop our opponents from comboing off and doing broken combos. We have the expected counterspells like Force of Will
and Fierce Guardianship
. But we also have a few targeted like Pyroblast
and An Offer You Can't Refuse
. We have a massive artifact base which we mostly utilize for mana but can help us get out and early and win very quickly. Overall I think Abaddon may not be the most explosive CEDH commander but still think he is a lot of fun as a doomsday pile!
Strengths of the Deck:
- Can win between turns 1-4
- Cheap costs means cascades always hit
- Large amount of protection against spells
Weaknesses of the Deck:
- Other CEDH decks are more explosive
- Abaddon is not always needed
Deck Stats:
Sample hands:
Main Win Conditions:
Tainted Pact and Thassa's Oracle
Demonic Consultation and Thassa's Oracle
Bolas's Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir Sensei's Divining Top
Lion's Eye Diamond and Brain Freeze Underworld Breach
Conclusion:
In conclusion I think Abaddon may not be the best CEDH commander but he is still fringe-positined and a lot of fun, he is often compared as Yidris without Green and that is very true. I think this deck is high powered and can hang with the top decks in the format. We have great combo potential with our ability to get it done quite early in the game as well as have some great mid – late game combo setups with Abaddon’s cascade ability allowing us to cast most cards in our deck!
Thanks for reading to the end!