sephiroth by user4658872

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Black Aristocrats Combo-Control build led by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The game plan establishes an early engine by pairing Sephiroth with sacrifice fodder to draw cards and steadily drain opponent life totals. By orchestrating four creature deaths in a single turn using sacrifice outlets or sweepers like The Meathook Massacre, Sephiroth transforms into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, generating an emblem that permanently punishes any creature death. The deck maintains control of the game through a deep suite of targeted removal and board wipes like Toxic Deluge and Deadly Rollick. To close out the game, the deck transitions into compact two-card combos, primarily Exquisite Blood combined with Sanguine Bond or Bloodchief Ascension paired with Mindcrank, or storms through the library with Bolas's Citadel. While the deck has high resilience and commander-independent win lines, its mono-black color identity leaves it vulnerable to opposing countermagic and artifact-based stax.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bone Shredder
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cast Down
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dauntless Scrapbot
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Foolish Fate
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lethal Protection
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Nethergoyf
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overwrite the Multiverse
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve for Disappointment
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Terminal Criticism
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Vraska's Final Mercy
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg