Of all the color combinations, minus the 4-color ones, abzan took me the longest to get to, by several years. This is mostly because all the abzan commanders are pretty damn boring, or extremely well-trod and predictable. Tymna and Sidar are kind of fun for being some of the only partners to have some pretty significant synergy, and I've been playing a bunch of creature-light decks recently so it seemed like a reasonable choice.
Main theme of the deck is hatebears, but there's also a significant amount of effort dedicated to keeping my team alive through wraths and whatnot. Luckily there's a handful of wraths that miss my entire team, so those are in there. The deck is very low curve so I can play everything out fast enough to avoid discarding to hand size.
Anyway whatever, done with the rainbow. At least until I get around to finishing up the 4-colors.
Seems to me like you have enough 2-drops to benefit from Return to the Ranks, which is a powerful card that I've long sought a home for. You might also benefit from Immortal Servitude and Rally the Ancestors, to other mass recursion cards that benefit from your overall extremely low curve.
Acidic Slime, Sadistic Hypnotist, and Karmic Guide are three slightly more expensive creatures who still hang out at the appropriate 2 power - but their effects are totally worth it.
You might also consider Mirror Entity as a wincon. It lets you swing your team small enough to trigger Sidar, then buff them all to disgusting proportions to wipe out the opposition.
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I've stumbled into this combination in the past month also - after a fond memory of an abzan build shortly after Karador came out. My hope is that I could find something fun to play, scalable against casual to semi-competitive tables and a little bit aggro, little bit combo with hardly any stax. There's still a few things I need to figure out how to work in - like Spore Frog/Kami of False Hope
I've been doing a ton of research and a *lot* of tweaking to get where I am now - and here's my list below.
Main theme of the deck is hatebears, but there's also a significant amount of effort dedicated to keeping my team alive through wraths and whatnot. Luckily there's a handful of wraths that miss my entire team, so those are in there. The deck is very low curve so I can play everything out fast enough to avoid discarding to hand size.
Anyway whatever, done with the rainbow. At least until I get around to finishing up the 4-colors.
1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
1 Tymna the Weaver
Let's get indestructible (6)
1 Dauntless Escort
1 Karametra, God of Harvests
1 Pharika, God of Affliction
1 Athreos, God of Passage
1 Teferi's Protection
1 Heroic Intervention
Ramp (3)
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Legion's Landing
Gotta play it (1)
1 Meekstone
Removal (10)
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Path to Exile
1 Unexpectedly Absent
1 Beast Within
1 Oblation
1 Anguished Unmaking
1 Retribution of the Meek
1 Dusk // Dawn
1 Austere Command
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Duuuudes (47)
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Arbor Elf
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Planar Guide
1 Weathered Wayfarer
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Mother of Runes
1 Serra Ascendant
1 Bloodsoaked Champion
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Containment Priest
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Imposing Sovereign
1 Leonin Arbiter
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Precinct Captain
1 Hanweir Militia Captain
1 Bitterblossom
1 Smuggler's Copter
1 Dark Confidant
1 Tocatli Honor Guard
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Withered Wretch
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Nether Traitor
1 Bloodghast
1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
1 Voice of Resurgence
1 Selfless Spirit
1 Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Necrotic Sliver
1 Spawnwrithe
1 Order of Whiteclay
1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Hushwing Gryff
1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
1 Mentor of the Meek
1 Bygone Bishop
9 fetches
3 duals
3 shocks
3 filters
3 checklands
1 Hissing Quagmire
1 Shambling Vent
1 Command Tower
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Gavony Township
1 Vitu-Ghazi, the City Tree
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Yavimaya Hollow
1 plains
1 forest
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
Devoted Crop-Mate, Timely Horde-Mate, and Renegade Rallier will also never be starved for targets, though they themselves fall outside of the 2 power range. Similarly, Reveillark, while somewhat expensive, gets back basically any two dudes, and Recruiter of the Guard finds just about every creature in your deck.
Acidic Slime, Sadistic Hypnotist, and Karmic Guide are three slightly more expensive creatures who still hang out at the appropriate 2 power - but their effects are totally worth it.
Deathrite Shaman seems notably absent from your one-drops. He's a manadork and graveyard hate in one nice package. Samurai of the Pale Curtain and Jotun Grunt are two hatebears you're notably missing.
You might also consider Mirror Entity as a wincon. It lets you swing your team small enough to trigger Sidar, then buff them all to disgusting proportions to wipe out the opposition.
Currently Playing:
Legacy: Something U/W Controlish
EDH Cube
Hypercube! A New EDH Deck Every Week(ish)!
I've stumbled into this combination in the past month also - after a fond memory of an abzan build shortly after Karador came out. My hope is that I could find something fun to play, scalable against casual to semi-competitive tables and a little bit aggro, little bit combo with hardly any stax. There's still a few things I need to figure out how to work in - like Spore Frog/Kami of False Hope
I've been doing a ton of research and a *lot* of tweaking to get where I am now - and here's my list below.
1x Animate Dead (GRV)
1x Arbor Elf (M13)
1x Arid Mesa (MM3)
1x Avacyn's Pilgrim (000)
1x Bane of Progress (CMT)
1x Bayou (3ED)
1x Blood Artist (AVR)
1x Bloodstained Mire (KTK)
1x Bloom Tender (EVE)
1x Boreal Druid (CSP)
1x Burgeoning (C16)
1x Canopy Vista (BFZ)
1x Carpet of Flowers (USG)
1x Chord of Calling (M15)
1x Command Tower (C17)
1x Concordant Crossroads (CHR)
1x Crop Rotation (DDR)
1x Dark Confidant (MM2)
1x Deathrite Shaman (RTR)
1x Demonic Tutor (3ED)
1x Diabolic Intent (AKHMPS)
1x Dimir House Guard (RAV)
1x Dryad Arbor (FUT)
1x Earthcraft (TMP)
1x Elves of Deep Shadow (000)
1x Elvish Mystic (000)
1x Eternal Witness (C15)
1x Evolutionary Leap (ORI)
1x Fiend Hunter (CMT)
1x Flooded Strand (KTK)
6x Forest (XLN)
1x Fyndhorn Elves (ICE)
1x Gaddock Teeg (LRW)
1x Gaea's Cradle (USG)
1x Genesis Wave (SOM)
1x Godless Shrine (GTC)
1x Green Sun's Zenith (EMA)
1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc (XLN)
1x Harvest Season (AKH)
1x Karmic Guide (CMT)
1x Keeper of Progenitus (ALA)
1x Knight of the Reliquary (MMA)
1x Living Death *F* (V14)
1x Llanowar Elves (CMT)
1x Mana Crypt (EMA)
1x Marsh Flats (MM3)
1x Mirror Entity (CMT)
1x Misty Rainforest (MM3)
1x Murmuring Bosk (C16)
1x Natural Order (000)
1x Necromancy (VIS)
1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (THS)
1x Overgrown Tomb (RTR)
1x Path to Exile (CMT)
1x Phyrexian Tower (USG)
1x Plains (XLN)
1x Polluted Delta (KTK)
1x Priest of Titania (CMT)
1x Protean Hulk (DIS)
1x Quest for Renewal
1x Ramunap Excavator (HOU)
1x Reclamation Sage (CMT)
1x Reconnaissance (EXO)
1x Recruiter of the Guard (CN2)
1x Renegade Rallier (FNM)
1x Reveillark (C16)
1x Saffi Eriksdotter (TSP)
1x Sakura-Tribe Elder (C16)
1x Savannah (3ED)
1x Scattered Groves (AKH)
1x Scroll Rack (TMP)
1x Scrubland (3ED)
1x Selvala, Explorer Returned (C16)
1x Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa *CMDR*
1x Skullclamp (C17)
1x Sol Ring (C17)
1x Survival of the Fittest (EXO)
1x Swamp (XLN)
1x Sylvan Library (EMA)
1x Teferi's Protection (C17)
1x Temple Garden (RTR)
1x Tymna the Weaver *CMDR*
1x Vampiric Tutor (EMA)
1x Verdant Catacombs (MM3)
1x Viscera Seer (C13)
1x Vizier of the Menagerie (AKH)
1x Volrath's Stronghold (STH)
1x Voyaging Satyr (CN2)
1x Weathered Wayfarer (9ED)
1x Winding Canyons (WTH)
1x Windswept Heath (KTK)
1x Wooded Foothills (KTK)
1x Yawgmoth's Will (USG)
1x Zulaport Cutthroat (BFZ)