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Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier

Legendary Creature — Angel // Legendary Creature — Angel · {3}{W}{W} · Red/White commander

Flash Flying, vigilance When Archangel Avacyn enters, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. When a non-Angel creature you control dies, transform Archangel Avacyn at the beginning of the next upkeep. Flying When this creature transforms into Avacyn, the Purifier, it deals 3 damage to each other creature and each opponent.

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What Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Archangel Avacyn enters, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Triggered ability · deathWhen a non-Angel creature you control dies, transform Archangel Avacyn at the beginning of the next upkeep.
• Triggered ability · otherWhen this creature transforms into Avacyn, the Purifier, it deals 3 damage to each other creature and each opponent.
• Keyword · flashflash
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What an Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier deck needs

Plays as team keywords. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• creatures that profit from indestructible (it grants the team it)

The Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 14× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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