Bring Me To Life by AccusedJ

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Black Aristocrats Control deck centered on Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The strategy focuses on accelerating through the early turns using mana rocks, rituals, and sacrifice-based card draw before deploying its 8-mana commander on Turn 6. Once Avacyn enters the battlefield, she loops nontoken sacrifice creatures—most notably edict pieces like Plaguecrafter, Accursed Marauder, and Demon's Disciple—at the beginning of every single end step. This produces four sacrifice and enter-the-battlefield triggers per turn rotation, systematically wiping opposing creatures and stripping cards in hand. Drain engines such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bontu's Monument, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel convert these recurring loops into direct life loss, while Avacyn's 8/8 flying deathtouch body provides substantial combat pressure. Even when denied its commander, the deck transitions smoothly into an independent aristocrats control plan supported by Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and explosive mana engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids's Frightful Return
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Serrated Scorpion
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Transmogrant Altar
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat