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Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Legendary Creature — Angel · {5}{B}{B}{B} · Black commander

Flying, deathtouch Whenever Avacyn or another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
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What Avacyn, Angel of Horror actually does

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

What an Avacyn, Angel of Horror deck needs

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

The Avacyn, Angel of Horror deck plan

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

Best cards for Avacyn, Angel of Horror

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.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  2. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Agility Bobblehead3 mana
  6. Smoke Bomb3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Case of the Shattered Pact2 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Skeleton Crew4 mana
  3. Death Tyrant5 mana
  4. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  5. Infestation Sage1 mana
  6. Nested Shambler1 mana
  7. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  8. Endless Ranks of HYDRA4 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  4. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  5. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  6. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  7. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  8. Fain, the Broker3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Avacyn, Angel of Horror is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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