Avacyn, Angel of Horror by Bosse

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and combo-control strategy. It uses efficient rituals and ramp such as Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, and Jet Medallion to deploy card draw engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and The One Ring. The deck controls creature-based strategies using repeatable sacrifice effects like Grave Pact and edict creatures like Accursed Marauder. While Avacyn, Angel of Horror offers high-end recursion and board dominance, the deck primarily aims to win on Turn 5 through the deterministic two-card combo of Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, or Marauding Blight-Priest. Secondary win conditions rely on huge life-drain bursts from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Bloodletter of Aclazotz. The deck excels at card flow and creature attrition, but it remains vulnerable to instant-speed noncreature removal and counterspells due to mono-black's limited stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Acolyte of Aclazotz
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hell's Caretaker
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shard of the Nightbringer
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat