Black Angel by CapJLP

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is an Aristocrats and life-drain combo strategy centered on executing an infinite ping loop using Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, or Marauding Blight-Priest. The early game focuses on deploying fast mana rocks, draining opponent resources via symmetric discard creatures like Burglar Rat and Virus Beetle, and drawing cards with engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Skullclamp. While Avacyn, Angel of Horror sits in the command zone as an 8-mana recursive threat, the deck primarily races toward its 2-card combo using universal black tutors like Diabolic Intent and Beseech the Mirror. Once both pieces are assembled on Turn 5, any life gain or damage initiates an unbounded loop that drains all three opponents to zero in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Street Wraith
  • 20 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat