Dark Angel by JGWentworth877

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

Avacyn, Angel of Horror headlines a high-power Mono-Black Reanimator and Aristocrats deck designed to dominate through asymmetric attrition, explosive mana acceleration, and recurring life drain. While Avacyn provides an overwhelming late-game recursion engine from the command zone, the 99 is entirely self-sufficient, powered by engine centerpieces like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Grave Pact, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. The deck accelerates mana using Sol Ring, Dark Ritual, Cabal Coffers, and Crypt Ghast before locking opponents out of creature strategies with edict effects from Plaguecrafter, Accursed Marauder, and Archon of Cruelty. Once the board is suppressed, the deck closes the game through recursive drain loops featuring Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Blood Artist. Dense reanimation makes the engine exceptionally resilient against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat