Guardian Angel by Hrvat_the_old

Format: Commander

Commander: Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power mono-black reanimator and combo strategy built to execute fast, deterministic finishes while controlling the board through continuous attrition. The primary game plan centers on using efficient tutors like Buried Alive, Demonic Tutor, or Unmarked Grave to place high-impact creatures into the graveyard, followed by cheap reanimation spells such as Victimize, Reanimate, and Animate Dead. The core win condition is the two-card infinite combo of Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Triskelion, which deals infinite damage on Turn 4 with zero opponent response cycles. If the primary combo is disrupted, the deck pivots seamlessly into powerful secondary win conditions including Bloodchief Ascension with Mindcrank, Bolas's Citadel storm chains, and massive life-drain swings via Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Living Death. Proactive disruption from Opposition Agent and Dauthi Voidwalker slows down faster opponents while the deck prepares its win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat