[dirtywick]

MA Abysia is pretty narrow IMO. Basically all you have is slow, heavy infantry for nationals. They only have 4 paths to choose from, Blood, Astral, Fire, and a small chance at Earth, so conjuration won't yield much for summons to supplement your infantry so you have to use Blood summons. Plus they're basically pigeonholed into taking Order, Prod, and Growth scales so you're pretender is going to be at least dormant.

They're strong, but they don't have a lot of playstyle options until much later in the game when, basically, everyone has those options at that time anyway.