Magic: The Gathering – Warhammer 40,000 Commander Deck Previews: The Ruinous Powers
Magic: The Gathering's Warhammer 40,000 Commader Deck preview season continues, with day two giving us the second of four decks in full. Across a whopping 41 new cards we're introduced to the Chaos Warlord Abaddon the Despoiler, and the demonic forces from the Warp that he represents.
Whether it's the endless, corrupt pleasure of Slaanesh, the bloodshed of Khorne, the jubilant decay of Nurgle, or the ever-changing mystery of Tzeentch, thisdeck lets you play with the full power of 40K's Chaos.
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For Magic players, you should already know what to expect from a deck based on 'Chaos'. There's lots of cascading, lots of Chaos Warps, and a whole army of Demons to back you up. Here's everything revealed for the blue/black/red The Ruinous Powers deck.
The Warmaster of Chaos and its greatest champion, Abaddon the Despoiler is the leader of the Chaos Space Marines, a horrific corruption of the supersoldiers that so famously represent the Imperium of Man.
True to his loyalty to Chaos, Abaddon's ability in Magic is highly random, granting cascade to spells that cost less than the total amount of life lost this turn by your opponents. While you do need to jump through hoops to make your opponents lose life, simply saving your big plays for after combat in the second main phase could allow you to cascade off of some of the deck's bigger cards and hit some spicy bombs.
It helps that this deck has a surprisingly high mana curve, with lots of expensive spells to cascade off of. Being able to cast one spell and get another for free helps counteract a few of the problems with this deck, notably its somewhat lacking land base for such big spells, and the
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