Black As Night by user5487996

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck harnesses Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as a draw engine, life drain outlet, and command zone combo piece. The strategy controls the battlefield using asymmetric edict effects like Grave Pact, Plaguecrafter, and Sheoldred's Edict while assembling recursive creature engines with Forsaken Miner, Gravecrawler, and Bloodghast. Mana rituals such as Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak accelerate board development, leading into explosive turns powered by Necropotence, Bolas's Citadel, or Skullclamp. The primary route to victory is an infinite sacrifice loop combining Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER with Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar and Forsaken Miner. Each sacrifice drains life from an opponent, commits a crime to trigger Miner's recursion, and refunds mana via Treasures or colored mana. The deck reliably assembles its engine by Turn 4 and executes a same-turn lethal drain across all three opponents on Turn 5, offering high consistency, potent board suppression, and resilient backup win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat