Avacyn, Angel of Horror by Habu1380

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Aristocrats and combo strategy built around graveyard recursion, life manipulation, and big-mana payoffs. Commanded by Avacyn, Angel of Horror, the list can grind out opponents by recurring high-impact nontoken creatures at every end step. Its primary path to victory is a compact two-card infinite combo featuring Exquisite Blood paired with Enduring Tenacity or South Wind Avatar. This combination triggers an endless chain of life gain and life loss that immediately eliminates all three opponents in a single turn. Backed by a suite of reliable black tutors, potent board wipes like Damnation, and massive mana generators like Cabal Coffers and Chromatic Orrery, the deck smoothly transitions into late-game haymakers like Rise of the Dark Realms and Exsanguinate if its primary combo is interrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Assassinate
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cadaver Imp
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Increasing Ambition
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Liturgy of Blood
  • 1 Mask of Avacyn
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ritual of Soot
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sporogenic Infection
  • 35 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Zombify