Horror by banditfox

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Mono-Black Aristocrats and Big-Mana control deck commanded by Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The deck focuses on accelerating its mana curve with efficient artifacts, rituals, and land engines like Cabal Coffers and Bubbling Muck, while deploying sacrifice outlets, aristocrat drainers, and death-triggered draw engines. By Turn 4, the deck assembles a steady value engine that filters cards and drains opposing life totals. Around Turn 6, the deck transitions into a lethal threat state by casting Avacyn, Angel of Horror, Bolas's Citadel, or Syr Konrad, the Grim. With Avacyn in play, recurring sacrifice loops with Accursed Marauder and Fleshbag Marauder impose an oppressive creature lock on opponents. The deck closes the game on Turn 8 through compounding drain from Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Blood Artist, and Bastion of Remembrance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Consumed by Greed
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desperate Measures
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan