Scintilla by Zaidos

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Mono-Black Aristocrats deck utilizes Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as a draw engine, life-drain payoff, and late-game emblem generator. The deck operates by developing resilient token generators and recurring fodder such as Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Forsaken Miner, which feed versatile sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader, Phyrexian Altar, and Viscera Seer. As creatures die, Sephiroth and redundant drain pieces like Blood Artist and Bastion of Remembrance drain opposing life totals while refilling your hand. Edict powerhouses like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing creature boards completely clear. The primary win condition is an infinite life-drain loop utilizing Warren Soultrader and Forsaken Miner with Sephiroth or another crime-triggering drain piece, draining all three opponents simultaneously for 120 total life on Turn 5. Dense unconditional tutoring and efficient reanimation ensure fast assembly, high resilience, and seamless recovery from board wipes.

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 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat