Avacyn the value machine by user9653510

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Black Aristocrats and Reanimator strategy commanded by Avacyn, Angel of Horror. The deck focuses on accelerating mana via rituals, doublers like Crypt Ghast and Cabal Coffers, and cost reducers to deploy high-impact engines on Turn 4. On Turn 5, it establishes a dominant must-answer state through mass reanimation spells like Living Death or by casting Avacyn to create an inescapable loop where dying nontoken creatures return at each end step. Edict creatures such as Accursed Marauder and Plaguecrafter repeatedly dismantle opposing boards while Archon of Cruelty, Massacre Wurm, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel heavily drain life totals. The deck does not rely strictly on its 8-mana commander, functioning independently through draw engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Braids, Arisen Nightmare. It reliably closes out games by Turn 7 through lethal aristocrat drain and large evasive beaters.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician