Descend, Heartless Angel - Cardboard crack

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 Combo Competitive Control Counterspell Double Trigger Exile GWUB Sacrifice

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Land (28)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shifting Woodland
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Food ChainGC
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Smothering TitheGC
• 1x Touch the Spirit Realm
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip

Creature (21)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Drannith MagistrateGC
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Flesh Duplicate
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC
• 1x Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Opposition AgentGC
• 1x Orcish BowmastersGC
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC
• 1x Volatile Stormdrake

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x The One RingGC
• 1x The Soul Stone

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

Commander (1)

Instant (21)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly TutorGC

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Valley Floodcaller

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x NecropotenceGC

Instant (2)

• 1x Borne Upon a Wind
• 1x Force of Vigor

Land (1)

• 1x Arid Mesa

Artifact (2)

• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Rest in Peace

Artifact (2)

• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

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Descend, Heartless Angel is a highly tuned, four-colour deck designed to dominate the board with a high-speed value engine before securing an instant-win combination. It leverages the massive card advantage provided by Atraxa, Grand Unifier to consistently out-resource opponents.

The deck's central strategy revolves around two phases:

• Turbo Value Engine: Utilize a suite of premium fast mana (e.g., Mox Opal, Mana VaultGC, Lotus Petal, Chrome MoxGC) and powerful draw engines (Rhystic StudyGC, Smothering TitheGC) to ramp Atraxa into play as quickly as possible—ideally by turns 3-5.

• The Descend Loop: Once Atraxa is on the battlefield, the deck maximizes her impact by using blink and flicker effects like Displacer Kitten and Touch the Spirit Realm to repeatedly trigger her powerful Enter the Battlefield (ETB) ability. This "descending" of Atraxa (flickering her out and back in) restocks your hand with critical land drops, protection, and necessary combo pieces, ensuring you always have an answer or a threat.

Core Win Condition: Protected Instant-Win

The ultimate goal of the deck is to assemble the ubiquitous win condition, which it reliably finds and protects using the value generated by Atraxa and a deep control suite.

The Combo: The deck wins with the Thassa's OracleGC and Tainted Pact / Demonic Consultation combination.

• Cast Thassa's OracleGC.

• In response to the ETB trigger, cast Tainted Pact or Demonic Consultation.

• Name a card not in your deck (or use Tainted Pact to exile your library).

• The Oracle's ability resolves, seeing zero cards left in your library, and you win the game on the spot.

Control and Protection

The deck is heavily geared towards a competitive meta with a deep control package to ensure the win condition is found and protected:

• Tutors: A full suite of black tutors (Demonic TutorGC, Vampiric TutorGC, Imperial SealGC, Beseech the Mirror) and colored tutors (Enlightened TutorGC, Worldly TutorGC) find the critical combo or disruption pieces on demand.

• Interaction: A powerful suite of free counterspells (Force of WillGC, Force of Negation, Pact of Negation) and low-cost disruption (Mental Misstep, Swan Song) ensures you can protect your combo or interact with opponents even when tapped out.

• Disruption Creatures: Powerful "stax-lite" creatures like Drannith MagistrateGC, Opposition AgentGC, and Orcish BowmastersGC are included to shut down common opposing strategies and disrupt their value engines.

Date added	2 months
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	31 - 4 Mythic Rares 51 - 6 Rares 12 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.06
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Orc Army, Treasure