Shall I give you despair by RogueBeren

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-black aristocrats combo deck. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER is the command-zone engine: its front face turns sacrificed creatures into card draw and life drain, transforms after four death triggers, and the back face adds a global drain emblem while attacking to draw a burst of cards. The primary kill is an infinite sacrifice loop using Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler plus a drain payoff, or an altar + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton loop. Secondary paths are token-value grind from Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Black Market Connections, and Syr Konrad, the Grim as a hidden-commander-style backup drain. The deck uses both faces: the front accelerates into the back, and the back sustains the drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Chorale of the Void
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gnawing Zombie
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Screams from Within
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zombify
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat