Silver Soldier by kilokilo

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck leverages Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER to turn creature deaths into steady life drain and card advantage. The game plan accelerates with efficient black rituals and cost reducers, assembling recurring sacrifice engines using tokens and self-recurring creatures like Reassembling Skeleton. By Turn 5, the deck engineers four creature deaths in a single turn to transform Sephiroth into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, granting a permanent Super Nova emblem that burns opponents on every death trigger. Simultaneously, oppressive attrition pieces like Braids, Cabal Minion, Archfiend of Depravity, and Painful Quandary strip away opposing boards and hands. The deck closes games around Turn 7 via stacked drain triggers, commander damage, or an overwhelming Torment of Hailfire. While powerful against creature strategies, it relies on proactive pressure to compensate for its inability to remove non-creature permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Blood Vassal
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Gift of Doom
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Koh, the Face Stealer
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Withercrown
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat