Sephiroth IRA by peanutbh

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER commands a potent mono-black Aristocrats engine designed to convert creature turnover into asymmetric attrition, card advantage, and lethal drain. The deck's early curve deploys recurring fodder like Gravecrawler, Forsaken Miner, and Bitterblossom, feeding sacrifice outlets such as Warren Soultrader, Carrion Feeder, and Phyrexian Altar. Casting Sephiroth provides immediate card draw and life drain, rapidly fulfilling its condition of four creature deaths in a single turn. Transforming into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel grants the unremovable Super Nova emblem, turning every subsequent creature death into direct table damage. Stax pieces like Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Tergrid, God of Fright systematically strip opposing boards, ensuring opponents cannot maintain a creature presence. Supported by card draw engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Skullclamp, the deck transitions seamlessly from grinding attrition into explosive mass drain via Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Massacre Wurm, or infinite sacrifice loops, reliably executing a decisive win by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 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 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 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 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat