AristoCraps (Current) by Stiggs

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats combo deck uses Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as an engine and drain outlet in the command zone. The deck accelerates mana using efficient black rituals, rocks, and land doublers while creating recurring creature tokens with Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia. It converts sacrificial fodder into cards through Skullclamp, Braids, Arisen Nightmare, and Sephiroth's attack triggers. The primary win condition is an infinite sacrifice loop combining Gravecrawler with Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar, dealing lethal drain across the table on Turn 4. Backup win conditions include the Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond infinite drain combo. Defensive control elements like Grave Pact and The Darkness Crystal clear opposing creature boards as you advance your own development.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat