Not exactly a top shelf Golgari card, but seems like an interesting option for cubes with a heavy sac / +1/+1 counters matter theme. Also has the reveilark / Alesha / recruiter synergy which is nice. Seems solid in an EDH cube.
The clans ceased to exist when Sarkhan reset the timeline, the dragons ended up taking over.
Both timelines: about ~1,300 years ago (FRF), each of the five clans is at war with one of the five dragon broods. Dromoka's Brood fight the Abzan clan (khan: Daghatar) because the brood sees the clan's culture of summoning their ancestor's spirits as vile "necromancy". The dragons have the upper hand.
Original timeline: Bolas kills Ugin, new dragons stop being born. The dragons start losing and, eventually, they all die out; present-day Tarkir (KTK) has no dragons, only the five clans.
Altered timeline: Sarkhan goes back in time and saves Ugin, so new dragons keep being born. The Abzan are being slaughtered so Daghatar, desperate, surrenders to Dromoka. The Azban clan members who follow him become part of Dromoka's Brood, and abandon the clan's black aspects. Similar things happen to the other four clans.
Part of the Abzan reject that and keep fighting, electing Reyhan as their new khan. Eventually, Reyhan's faction is killed out, and the Abzan clan officially ends. Present-day Tarkir (DTK) has no clans, only the five broods with the humanoids races serving the dragons.
Reyhan's BG while Dromoka's GW, meaning the white Abzan all followed Daghatar, the black ones rebelled, and the green ones were divided between the two sides.
Not exactly a top shelf Golgari card, but seems like an interesting option for cubes with a heavy sac / +1/+1 counters matter theme. Also has the reveilark / Alesha / recruiter synergy which is nice. Seems solid in an EDH cube.
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Also why isn't the last of the abzan white? Is it because the rest are dead?
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Both timelines: about ~1,300 years ago (FRF), each of the five clans is at war with one of the five dragon broods. Dromoka's Brood fight the Abzan clan (khan: Daghatar) because the brood sees the clan's culture of summoning their ancestor's spirits as vile "necromancy". The dragons have the upper hand.
Original timeline: Bolas kills Ugin, new dragons stop being born. The dragons start losing and, eventually, they all die out; present-day Tarkir (KTK) has no dragons, only the five clans.
Altered timeline: Sarkhan goes back in time and saves Ugin, so new dragons keep being born. The Abzan are being slaughtered so Daghatar, desperate, surrenders to Dromoka. The Azban clan members who follow him become part of Dromoka's Brood, and abandon the clan's black aspects. Similar things happen to the other four clans.
Part of the Abzan reject that and keep fighting, electing Reyhan as their new khan. Eventually, Reyhan's faction is killed out, and the Abzan clan officially ends. Present-day Tarkir (DTK) has no clans, only the five broods with the humanoids races serving the dragons.
Reyhan's BG while Dromoka's GW, meaning the white Abzan all followed Daghatar, the black ones rebelled, and the green ones were divided between the two sides.