Best EDH deck to use Archangel of Thune in?

[WWolfe]

I love Archangel of Thune, but I don't have a deck that she fits in. Is there a deck outside of life gain where she does some work or am I going to have to suck it up and build a life gain deck if I want to play her?

[robort]

How about an angel tribal deck

[Firegriff]

A +1/+1 counters matter deck.  Plenty of cards from Khans block (especially if you mix in green) to take advantage of its ability.  Or an Aetherworks Marvel deck.  Or a persist deck (just have some lifelink or life gain creatures in the mix) to give creatures longevity (the positive counters remove the negative counters).

[Morganator 2.0]

A creature-based deck like Odric, Lunarch Marshal has moderate lifegain, without going all-out. The benefit, is several different lifegain triggers in a combat step. Edgar Markov works because there are a lot of vampires that conveniently have lifelink, and Trostani, Selesnya's Voice is lifegain whenever a creature enters.

You could try a creature heavy Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Sydri, Galvanic Genius, but there are better ways of playing them, so the Archangel of Thune might get swapped out down the line.

[WWolfe]

I'd thought about Angel tribal but already have a few tribal decks (Slivers, Humans, Elves, Vampires, & Zombies). Kinda the same with +1/+1 counter matters deck (Skullbriar).

Odric may be my best bet unless I do another +1/+1 matters deck.

Thanks for the replies!

[nickelphoenix]

I’ve recently seen it listed as a sneaky way of getting a +1/+1 counter on creatures in an Atraxa deck because of Atraxa’s lifelink ability.

[Judaspriester]

Hmm.. if you are not afraid of a 4 color deck, what about Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker + Reyhan, Last of the Abzan.
The important keywords would be modular, graft, evolve, outlast and bolster then. The Archangel should fit very good into it.