avacyn by Sdebuck86

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Black Aristocrats and attrition control build commanded by Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The deck focuses on accelerating its mana curve through artifact ramp and black mana multipliers like Crypt Ghast and Cabal Stronghold, while deploying sacrifice outlets, aristocrat drainers, and death-trigger card draw engines. Its primary win condition revolves around establishing an asymmetric attrition loop: resolving Avacyn and pairing her end-step recursion with edict creatures like Accursed Marauder and Fleshbag Marauder, or high-devotion life drain via Gray Merchant of Asphodel. This engine systematically dismantles opposing creature boards while repeatedly triggering drain payoffs such as Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. If Avacyn is answered, the deck smoothly transitions into a standalone aristocrats drain engine backed by mass reanimation and a lethal Exsanguinate. While lacking instant-speed stack interaction and enchantment/artifact removal, the list delivers high synergy, resilient board suppression, and consistent mid-to-late-game inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat