[Precon Upgrade] Calling All Angels - $20 Budget Upgrades by cleft

Format: Commander

Creator: cleft

Commander: Giada, Font of Hope

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a focused mono-white tribal beatdown strategy helmed by Giada, Font of Hope. It operates by casting Giada on Turn 2 to serve simultaneously as targeted mana acceleration and an escalating +1/+1 counter engine for subsequent Angel spells. The deck curves aggressively into evasive flyers like Righteous Valkyrie, Angelic Field Marshal, and Lyra Dawnbringer, quickly turning incidental lifegain into significant stat advantages. Because Angels enter with counters scaling with each previously controlled Angel, the board snowballs rapidly in combat effectiveness. While the deck boasts efficient single-target removal like Swords to Plowshares and modal sweepers like Austere Command, it relies on combat damage to eliminate opponents across multiple turns. Its primary constraints are the lack of explosive card velocity and vulnerability to mass creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angel of Finality
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Angelic Field Marshal
  • 1 Angelic Sell-Sword
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Tithes
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bishop of Wings
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Defy Death
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Destroy Evil
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Firemane Commando
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Giada, Font of Hope
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Herald of Eternal Dawn
  • 1 Herald of War
  • 1 Herald of the Host
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Merchant of Truth
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Momo, Friendly Flier
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 28 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Segovian Angel
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Seraph Sanctuary
  • 1 Sigarda's Vanguard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Starfield Shepherd
  • 1 Starnheim Aspirant
  • 1 Steel Seraph
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Thraben Watcher
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Valkyrie Harbinger
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Wojek Investigator
  • 1 Youthful Valkyrie