To get the most out of him, you'll want to build a deck that can get Zombies out onto the battlefield while also having ways to reanimate them from your graveyard
To avoid having Avacyn flip when we don't want her to, we can run the aforementioned blink cards on the Angel to give our creatures indestructibility, bounce Avacyn to either replay her immediately, or run other creature protection like Boros Charm
Its a great strategy to leave them on the back foot
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Five-color decks probably dont have a need for something like this since they have access to every other card Commander has to offer, but running this in some two-colored archetypes that may not run a lot of refill options, like Boros, could also be a good shout