Sephiroth || One Winged Angel by setojonkaiba

Format: Commander

Creator: setojonkaiba

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats list harnesses Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as both an early card advantage engine and a devastating mid-game win condition. Operating on a low mana curve backed by explosive acceleration like Dark Ritual, Ancient Tomb, and Lake of the Dead, the deck rapidly establishes recurring sacrifice fodder before deploying Sephiroth on Turn 3. By engineering four creature deaths in a single turn around Turn 5, it unlocks Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel and creates an emblem that drains opponents whenever any creature dies. Coupled with asymmetric control staples such as Grave Pact, Attrition, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare, the deck relentlessly strips opposing boards while fueling massive card draw through Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Skullclamp. The game culminates in rapid table-wide life drain or overwhelming mana finishers like Torment of Hailfire and Bolas's Citadel, closing out the table by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat