Avacyn, Angel Of Horror by BappyBappton

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Mono-Black Aristocrats and Big Mana engine commanded by Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The primary game plan utilizes fast mana acceleration (Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, Cabal Coffers, K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth) and card-draw engines (Skullclamp, Braids, Arisen Nightmare, Morbid Opportunist) to assemble a lethal aristocrats loop by Turn 5. The primary finish combines Gravecrawler with a sacrifice outlet (Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar) and a death-trigger drain piece (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Ayara, First of Locthwain) to drain all three opponents for lethal damage in a single turn. Defensively, Grave Pact and The Darkness Crystal provide crushing board control and graveyard denial. The deck boasts extraordinary engine recovery through cheap reanimation spells and redundant recursion pieces, but remains vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard exile and targeted removal due to minimal stack-based protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat