Sephiroth IRA by Timtam

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Mono-Black Aristocrats strategy commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The primary game plan involves establishing cheap recursive creatures and token generators on early turns, deploying Sephiroth by Turn 4, and orchestrating four creature deaths in a single turn on Turn 5 using symmetric edicts like Fleshbag Marauder or free sacrifice outlets. Transforming Sephiroth grants an emblem that drains opponents whenever any creature dies. The deck compounds this advantage through stax-lite attrition pieces such as Braids, Cabal Minion, Dictate of Erebos, and Tergrid, God of Fright, while classic drain payoffs like Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel steadily deplete opposing life totals. While the deck possesses remarkable recursion and creature control, it lacks countermagic and instant-speed artifact removal, making it vulnerable to early graveyard exile and noncreature combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat