I Will Never Be a Memory by Ioun

Format: Commander

Creator: Ioun

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

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck harnesses Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER to convert sacrifice fodder into steady card draw and targeted life drain. Triggering Sephiroth four times in a single turn transforms him into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, creating an emblem that permanently drains opponents on creature deaths and turning attacks into massive card advantage. The deck wins by assembling infinite sacrifice loops using recursion engines like Forsaken Miner with Warren Soultrader, or Gravecrawler with Phyrexian Altar and a drain outlet. Alternatively, massive mana generation from Cabal Coffers and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx fuels decisive finishes through Torment of Hailfire or Bolas's Citadel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat