Sephiroth, Angel of Pings by BoogieWoogie_

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck is commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, aiming to control the battlefield through creature sacrifices, edicts, and life drain. The primary game plan focuses on casting Sephiroth early, sacrificing recursive creatures and tokens to trigger 4 deaths in a single turn, and transforming him into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel. This transformation grants an uninteractable emblem that drains 1 life from target opponents whenever any creature dies. The deck compounds this life loss using redundant aristocrat pieces such as Bastion of Remembrance, Zulaport Cutthroat, and South Wind Avatar, while keeping opposing boards clear with Grave Pact, Plaguecrafter, and Fleshbag Marauder. Card advantage engines like Skullclamp, Braids, and Black Market Connections maintain resource velocity. Games conclude quickly once the emblem is online, draining the table through large creature trades, combat damage from an evasive 5/5 commander, or a decisive Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Navy Trebuchet
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Great Fierce Bee
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Necrotic Hex
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phoenix Fleet Airship
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vindictive Lich
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat