Sephiroth by Magyst

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 74

Deck overview

This competitive mono-black deck leverages Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as both an aristocrats engine and an outlet in the command zone. Supported by premier fast mana and an elite tutor suite, the deck rapidly converges on infinite sacrifice loops or explosive storm turns. The primary win condition pairs Warren Soultrader with Gravecrawler or Forsaken Miner. With Sephiroth in play, sacrificing recursive creatures generates Treasure while Sephiroth drains opponents and restores life parity. In parallel, the list deploys Hoarding Broodlord convoke lines, Ad Nauseam, and Bolas's Citadel to assemble redundancy or immediate alternate finishes with Blood Artist effects. Robust interaction—including Deadly Rollick, Opposition Agent, and Orcish Bowmasters—disrupts opposing combos and card draw while protecting its own development with Defense Grid. Dense low-cost reanimation guarantees rapid engine recovery through disruption, making the deck a fast, resilient aristocrats threat capable of closing games cleanly on Turn 3.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gate to Phyrexia
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat