Caw-Blade EDH by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Abuelo, Ancestral Echo

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius Blink Control and Equipment Midrange build led by Abuelo, Ancestral Echo. The game plan revolves around early mana development, filtering through cantrips, and deploying resilient card advantage engines such as Rhystic Study, The One Ring, and Consecrated Sphinx. The deck leverages equipment tutors like Stoneforge Mystic and Steelshaper's Gift to assemble threats like Batterskull and the Sword cycle, while utilizing Abuelo, Soulherder, and Displacer Kitten to reuse powerful enter-the-battlefield abilities from Cloudblazer, Mulldrifter, and Aether Channeler. A premier suite of counterspells and spot removal keeps opposing fast combos in check. Victory is achieved through incremental combat pressure, turning large evasive creatures into lethal clocks over multiple turns while denying opponents counterplay with Teferi, Time Raveler.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baneslayer Angel
  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Divine Offering
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flashfreeze
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Gideon Jura
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Ratchet Bomb
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Squadron Hawk
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow