Life, Death and Sephiroth by Pheonmstr

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This mono-black Aristocrats deck is commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, utilizing a blend of high-tempo mana acceleration, sacrifice engines, and reanimation lines. The core strategy revolves around establishing cheap recurring fodder alongside Sephiroth to draw cards, drain opponents, and flip into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel for a permanent Super Nova drain emblem. Explosive turns are fueled by fast mana pieces like Dark Ritual and Mana Vault, enabling rapid tutoring via Demonic Tutor and Entomb. The deck aims to close the game on Turn 5 through infinite sacrifice loops—chiefly Mikaeus, the Unhallowed paired with Putrid Goblin and a sacrifice outlet, or Gravecrawler loops with Phyrexian Altar. While highly lethal and redundant, the deck possesses minimal stack interaction and remains vulnerable to well-timed graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat