Rites of Inevitability by BenP66

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck leverages Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as both a draw engine and a game-ending win condition. Early turns focus on establishing recursive creature fodder, mana rocks, and persistent draw engines. Once Sephiroth enters, it converts disposable creatures into fresh cards and life drain. The primary game plan aims to trigger four creature deaths in a single turn around turn 6 using sweepers like Toxic Deluge or multi-sacrifices from Priest of Forgotten Gods. Transforming Sephiroth grants a permanent emblem that drains opponents whenever any creature dies across the table. Supported by heavy hitters like Syr Konrad, the Grim and South Wind Avatar, the deck grinds down opposing life totals over two response cycles. It possesses high resilience and redundant backup plans, though it remains soft to early targeted creature removal and artifact or enchantment locks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chorale of the Void
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Consumed by Greed
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Daily Bugle Building
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nightblade Brigade
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pain 101
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Scrounge for Eternity
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Strategic Betrayal
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vadmir, New Blood
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God