avacyn by Reaper

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive mono-black turbo combo list designed to assemble fast, game-ending win conditions on Turns 2 to 3. Although Avacyn, Angel of Horror sits in the command zone as a high-cost backup threat, the core game plan operates entirely through compact reanimator packages, explosive mana acceleration, and dense tutor suites. The primary victory route utilizes Buried Alive to entomb Necrotic Ooze, Phyrexian Devourer, and Triskelion or Walking Ballista, followed by a single-mana reanimation spell. Once Necrotic Ooze enters the battlefield, it inherits activated abilities to exile the library for counters and deal lethal damage to all opponents at instant speed. The deck reinforces this fast clock with high-impact stax pieces like Contamination, Opposition Agent, and Dauthi Voidwalker, alongside powerful secondary win lines including Professor Onyx with Chain of Smog, Bolas's Citadel loops, and Ad Nauseam bursts. These redundant engines ensure rapid recovery and complete independence from the command zone.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Devourer
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shallow Grave
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will