sephiroth by user4857996

Format: Commander

Commander: Sephiroth, Planet's Heir

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir midrange control deck built around Sephiroth, Planet's Heir. The primary game plan systematically dismantles opposing creature boards using targeted removal, forced sacrifice effects, and commander shrink triggers, steadily converting opposing deaths into +1/+1 counters on Sephiroth. Mana rocks and occasional rituals curve into a Turn 5 commander deployment, followed immediately by an aggressive combat clock enabled by unblockability tools like Key to the City, Rogue's Passage, or Security Bypass. Backup plans utilize high-impact graveyard reanimation via Rise of the Dark Realms or alternate win vectors through Shinryu. While the deck boasts resilient card flow and strong interaction against creature-centric opponents, its reliance on incremental combat damage gives opponents multiple turns to draw into answers, leaving it moderately vulnerable to wide spell-based combo decks and non-creature win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Deathbringer
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Security Bypass
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vayne's Treachery
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God