Avacyn Came Back Wrong by NecroTempo

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 64

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Mono-Black Reanimator and Aristocrats combo deck that leverages format-defining acceleration, premium black tutors, and compact infinite combos to end the game quickly. The deck bypasses its high-cost commander, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, focusing instead on cheating Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Triskelion into play via spells like Entomb and Reanimate, or assembling low-cost persist sacrifice loops featuring Putrid Goblin, Metallic Mimic, and Altar of Dementia. Explosive card draw engines such as Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and The One Ring ensure massive card advantage, while stax elements like Contamination and Opposition Agent severely constrain opposing resource development. With rapid redundancy and instant-speed lethality, the deck presents consistent Turn 4 table kills.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chronomancer
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Tyrant
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Geralf's Messenger
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shallow Grave
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Meek
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Tenacious Underdog
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat