One-Winged Angel by therealdhs

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 66

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Mono-Black Aristocrats and combo strategy commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel. The game plan establishes early sacrifice engines using hyper-efficient recursive creatures such as Forsaken Miner and Gravecrawler alongside dedicated sacrifice outlets and drain payoffs. Sephiroth anchors the engine directly from the command zone, providing both card advantage and repeatable drain triggers that naturally commit crimes. The deck seamlessly transitions into game-ending infinite loops, primarily utilizing Warren Soultrader with Forsaken Miner to generate infinite death triggers, infinite Treasure mana, and lethal table-wide drain on Turn 4. Supported by premier black tutors like Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor, explosive acceleration like Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak, and compact two-card combos like Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, the list maintains relentless pressure. Resilient recursion and cheap protection ensure swift recovery from interaction, while asymmetric attrition pieces like Dictate of Erebos keep opposing boards contained.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat