Jenova's Witness by Justhope4

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Mono-Black Aristocrats Combo strategy led by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap, recurring creature fodder such as Forsaken Miner and Gravecrawler, pairing them with free sacrifice outlets like Phyrexian Altar, Ashnod's Altar, and Warren Soultrader. Sephiroth provides an immediate outlet in the command zone, turning every creature death into targeted life drain and life gain. Once transformed into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, the Super Nova emblem ensures permanent drain pressure that cannot be removed by permanent destruction. The deck achieves victory either through deterministic infinite death-trigger loops—draining all three opponents simultaneously on Turn 5—or through crushing asymmetric creature attrition via Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos. Card velocity is fueled by engines like Skullclamp, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and Bolas's Citadel, while extensive graveyard recursion guarantees rapid recovery from board wipes and targeted removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dead of Winter
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 22 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat