I am the Vilian, Am I? (Sephiroth Budget $210) by Veiav

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Mono-Black Aristocrats deck centers on Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, utilizing low-cost sacrifice fodder and symmetric sacrifice effects to trigger life drain and card draw. The early game focuses on deploying recurring creatures like Bloodghast and token engines like Ophiomancer. Once Sephiroth enters on Turn 3, the deck sequences multiple creature deaths in a single turn to flip the commander into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel by Turn 6. Transforming creates a permanent Super Nova emblem that drains opponents whenever any creature dies. The mid-to-late game locks opponents out of creature-based strategies using repeatable edicts and The Darkness Crystal, while converting death triggers into massive card advantage and life swings. Games are closed out by Turn 8 through accumulated drain triggers, aerial combat, and devastating mass reanimation spells like Living Death or Rise of the Dark Realms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Curse of the Restless Dead
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Triumph
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 37 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan