Sefris by Ricecream

Format: Commander

Commander: Sefris of the Hidden Ways

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Esper reanimator build centered on Sefris of the Hidden Ways, leveraging dungeon venture mechanics to repeatedly cheat high-impact creatures into play. The early game focuses on deploying mana rocks, filling the graveyard via looters like Likeness Looter and Faithful Mending, and casting Sefris on curve. Once online, recurring creature movement into the graveyard rapidly triggers dungeon completions, unlocking Sefris's Create Undead ability to reanimate massive threats like Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. For a decisive finish, the deck employs an infinite blink loop using Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward alongside Animate Dead or Necromancy, generating an unbounded army of 1/1 Soldier tokens or triggering lethal dungeon drain through Radiant Solar. Supported by flexible removal such as Void Rend and Toxic Deluge, the deck maintains steady board control while executing its reanimation strategy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Acererak the Archlich
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bar the Gate
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champion of Wits
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dungeon Delver
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Imoen, Mystic Trickster
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nadaar, Selfless Paladin
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Radiant Solar
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rilsa Rael, Kingpin
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Seasoned Dungeoneer
  • 1 Sefris of the Hidden Ways
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Triumphant Adventurer
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 White Plume Adventurer
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Yuan-Ti Malison