MonoBlack - Sephiroth by Davenex

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Mono-Black Aristocrats deck is commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, who serves as both a card-drawing sacrifice outlet and a life-draining win condition. The strategy centers on deploying resilient fodder creatures and token generators such as Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Bloodghast, then converting them into card advantage and opponent life loss. By chaining creature sacrifices and edict effects like Grave Pact and Accursed Marauder, the deck triggers four deaths in a single turn to transform Sephiroth into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel. This grants an indestructible Super Nova emblem that burns opponents on every death trigger across the table. Backed by potent draw engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Skullclamp, the deck establishes a suffocating creature lock before finishing opponents through cumulative drain, large Exsanguinate casts, or infinite Gravecrawler loops.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loot, the Anomaly
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 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 Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician