A mono-black aristocrats deck built around Avacyn, Angel of Horror. Avacyn returns every nontoken creature that dies at the next end step, so sacrificing creatures to free sac outlets and altars costs nothing permanent: each creature dies, triggers drain and draw payoffs, then comes back to re-trigger its enter effects. Sacrifice-based removal, death-triggered edicts and black devotion mana turn that loop into card advantage, board control and steady life drain. How it wins: Repeated drain triggers from dying and re-entering creatures, plus big enter and death effects like Gray Merchant and Kokusho returning every turn, bleed opponents out while edicts strip their boards. Key roles: - Free sacrifice outlets: Cost-free ways to kill creatures at instant speed, so Avacyn's recursion and the death payoffs fire on demand, often making mana or scry along the way. (Viscera Seer, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar) - Death drain payoffs: Each creature death pings opponents and gains life, scaling with how many bodies cycle through in a turn. (Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Syr Konrad, the Grim) - Recurring value bodies: Creatures whose enter or death triggers get reused when Avacyn returns them at end step, delivering repeated drains, edicts and discard. (Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Archon of Cruelty) - Edict lock: Symmetric sacrifice effects and death-triggered edicts hurt opponents while the deck's own creatures come back, grinding opposing boards away. (Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Fleshbag Marauder) - Death-fueled card flow: Draw engines and prepared tutors keyed to creatures dying keep the hand full and find key pieces. (Grim Haruspex, Pitiless Plunderer, Emeritus of Woe) - Fast black mana to land Avacyn: Rituals, devotion lands and sac-for-mana effects accelerate into the eight-mana commander and fuel big turns. (Dark Ritual, Crypt Ghast, Phyrexian Tower)

Avacyn, Angel of Horror decklist

• Altar of Dementia
• Arcane Signet
• Ashnod's Altar
• Chrome Mox
• Expedition Map
• Jet Medallion
• Lightning Greaves
• Phyrexian Altar
• Sol Ring
• The One Ring
• The Soul Stone
• Ancient Tomb
• Bojuka Bog
• Cabal Coffers
• Crypt of Agadeem
• High Market
• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Phyrexian Tower
• Susur Secundi, Void Altar
• 22× Swamp
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Urza's Saga
• Volrath's Stronghold
• Accursed Marauder
• Archon of Cruelty
• Ayara, First of Locthwain
• Blood Artist
• Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• Carrion Feeder
• Crypt Ghast
• Dauthi Voidwalker
• Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Grim Haruspex
• Junji, the Midnight Sky
• Kokusho, the Evening Star
• Morbid Opportunist
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Plaguecrafter
• Priest of Forgotten Gods
• Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
• Shambling Ghast
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Umbral Collar Zealot
• Viscera Seer
• Warren Soultrader
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Black Market Connections
• Dictate of Erebos
• Grave Pact
• Necropotence
• The Meathook Massacre
• The Sibsig Ceremony
• Cabal Ritual
• Culling the Weak
• Dark Ritual
• Deadly Dispute
• Deadly Rollick
• Entomb
• Flare of Malice
• Vampiric Tutor
• Village Rites
• Withering Torment
• Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• Blasphemous Edict
• Bubbling Muck
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Intent
• Swamp
• Swamp
• Swamp
• Drivnod, Carnage Dominus