Church of Avacyn - Tuned Monowhite Avacyn EDH

Commander / EDH*

FS4056

Creature (22)

• 1x Armory Automaton
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Indomitable Archangel
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Leonin Arbiter
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tocatli Honor Guard
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Instant (6)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tithe

Artifact (20)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Worldslayer

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cataclysm *list*
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Gift of Estates
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Rout
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Sublime Exhalation
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 23x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Endless Horizons
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Sigarda's Aid

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Creature (3)

• 1x Angel of Condemnation
• 1x Angel of Finality
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Cleansing Nova

Artifact (2)

• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Silent Gravestone

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rest in Peace

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Subjective Power Level: 6.5/10 - This is a higher-power "tuned" list - to use Command Zone podcast lingo, this would be a stronger "Focused" list or a weaker "Optimized" list.

This deck was built specifically to be a "teaching" deck - to assist playgroups who want to begin migrating from a more casual meta to a more tuned/optimized one. This list incorporates many competitive concepts and helps players see the strengths of those principles in practice:

• Very low CMC for a deck of this power level and EXTREMELY low CMC for an Avacyn list
• Smooth and well-distributed mana curve
• Efficient mana acceleration and tutors, even though mono-white is generally poor at both of these
• Powerful and diverse stax abilities - Showing players to be flexible and not put all eggs in one basket, while simultaneously demonstrating how we can solve many problems in unconventional ways (i.e. Tocatli Honor Guard)
• Strong synergies between cards and singular focus on one gameplan (drop value creatures to stax opponents and accelerate our game, give them the best card-advantage-generating equipments to keep the steam coming, cast Avacyn, then wipe everything)

Mono-white is quite a weak color selection for EDH, but it has a great benefit if your goal is to build a "teaching" deck - you can push the color to its absolute limits and include the very best cards possible without fear of pushing into CEDH territory. You can dial a mono-white deck's power to the max, yet it remains easily beatable by a well-built deck with a competent pilot.

This give the list some very cool and interesting outcomes:

• This deck will stomp practically every "casual" list - Avacyn is hard to remove, stax effects are very hard to overcome for slower and less focused builds, it quickly begins assembling multiple layers of protection (stax, Aven Mindcensor, Grand Abolisher, Avacyn herself, etc), and lastly, despite Avacyn's cost, the deck plays much faster than most "casual" lists (being a full 1.0+ average CMC lower than where many casual lists sit)
• This deck will fold to practically every highly-optimized or CEDH list - It simply doesn't have the speed or reliability to compete and decks of this level have many possible routes they can take to win (outrace Avacyn, well-timed counters/removal, stax of their own, etc.) In other words, the path towards overcoming this deck naturally leads one to learn many of the common and more competitive deckbuilding techniques and piloting skills!

NOTE: Rest in Peace is a glaring omission, but it is intentional. The card is extremely powerful, but not the best choice if your goal is to teach... it is simply too good at what it does. In a competitive meta, Rest in Peace is an expected threat and any graveyard-reliant decks are proactively built to answer it. More casual metas don't often build in this adaptability - if there is a graveyard deck at the table, Rest in Peace often just completely hoses it and their game is totally over (which just makes people frustrated). I don't recommend including it initially, but you should consider slipping it later on down the road... after your playgroup has grown familiar with this deck and started learning how to play around it.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Folders	Epic Decks