Quote Originally Posted by ivanpei View Post
The guys dropping the big dolla dolla on the the abyss are gonna get egg on their faces. Seriously a couple of the landstill guys and blak stax guys have tested the thing to death. It's still not good and will unlikely ever be that great. Its effect for 4 mana is too easily blanked by tribal. As long as there are merfok, goblins and elves, the abyss will not be good enough. As a creature hoser it better damn well hose tribal. Oh wait, theres engineered plaque and damnation, which do a much better job. There's a reason why cards like deed are played More, you need to be flexible in legacy.

The abyss is specifically a midrange aggro hoser which provides incremental advantage. But then decks like bant can just kill you with jace or feed mana dudes to abyss while smashing your face in with a big hydra.
The Abyss eats midrange decks so there will always be a chance it will get more powerful. Sure it loses to Natural Order or man lands, but it can also be back breaking against decks like Stoneforge, Team America, or Bant without N/O which last time I checked were still a sizable parts of the meta.