Aristocrat by user8521812

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is a focused mono-black Aristocrats engine led by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The primary game plan deploys low-cost recurring creatures alongside dedicated sacrifice outlets and death-trigger drain payoffs. Sephiroth provides card draw and passive life loss in the command zone while threatening to transform into a permanent drain emblem. Backed by unconditional tutors including Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor, the deck rapidly and consistently reaches its primary win condition on Turn 4. The main kill loop uses Warren Soultrader, Forsaken Miner, and a drain piece to generate infinite death triggers, draining all opponents to zero in a single turn. Defensively, asymmetric attrition pieces like Grave Pact and efficient interaction like Deadly Rollick and Toxic Deluge suppress opposing boards. Although the deck lacks stack countermagic and artifact destruction, its high redundancy, explosive card flow from Skullclamp and The One Ring, and fast engine recovery make it resilient and dangerous.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat