Sephiroth by Chumnez

Format: Commander

Commander: Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Black Aristocrats control shell commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The primary strategy focuses on establishing early recurring creature fodder, deploying Sephiroth to draw cards and drain opponents on attacks, and utilizing mass-edict effects to force simultaneous creature sacrifices across the entire table. By engineering four creature deaths in a single turn—routinely accomplished with creatures like Accursed Marauder or Fleshbag Marauder—Sephiroth transforms into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, generating an unremovable emblem that drains life whenever any creature dies. The deck converts table-wide attrition into card advantage, doubling death triggers with Drivnod, Carnage Dominus and life loss with Bloodletter of Aclazotz. It finishes games through compounded drain triggers, Massacre Wurm board wipes, and devastating Gray Merchant of Asphodel devotion bursts. The deck features potent creature suppression and resilient recursive threats, though it remains vulnerable to artifact-heavy strategies and mass graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana's Triumph
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malicious Affliction
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sengir Autocrat
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wasteland Raider
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Withering Torment