Heavens Above

Format: Commander

Commander: Giada, Font of Hope

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-white Angel tribal and lifegain aggro strategy commanded by Giada, Font of Hope. Giada acts as an early ramp piece and a scaling growth engine, ensuring every subsequent Angel enters the battlefield with bonus +1/+1 counters based on your existing flying army. The game plan focuses on curving out with synergistic creatures such as Righteous Valkyrie, Bishop of Wings, and Resplendent Angel to inflate your life total and trigger powerful token generators. By Turn 5, the board achieves critical mass with large evasive threats and static anthem effects from cards like Lyra Dawnbringer and Sephara, Sky's Blade. While the deck excels at aerial combat, lifegain stabilization, and targeted removal, it relies on natural draws due to a lack of tutors and struggles against mass bounce or repeated sweepers without holding protection spells like Clever Concealment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Battle Priest
  • 1 Always Watching
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Angel of Finality
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Angelic Accord
  • 1 Angelic Field Marshal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Tithes
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bishop of Wings
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bruna, the Fading Light
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Conjurer's Mantle
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Enter the Avatar State
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fateful Absence
  • 1 Firemane Commando
  • 1 Giada, Font of Hope
  • 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Herald of War
  • 1 Herald of the Host
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminarch Ascension
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Norn's Choirmaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 28 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Resplendent Marshal
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Segovian Angel
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Seraph Sanctuary
  • 1 Sigarda's Splendor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Starnheim Aspirant
  • 1 Steel Seraph
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thraben Watcher
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Valkyrie Harbinger
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Winnowing
  • 1 Wojek Investigator
  • 1 Youthful Valkyrie