One Winged Angel by pcmurtha

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER commands a focused mono-black aristocrats and attrition control deck designed to grind opponents out through asymmetric sacrifice triggers, continuous creature removal, and compounding life drain. The deck's early turns prioritize deploying recursive creature fodder such as Ophiomancer, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Reassembling Skeleton, followed by casting Sephiroth on Turn 3. Once deployed, Sephiroth converts disposable bodies into card advantage and targeted life drain. The deck reaches critical onset around Turn 6 by triggering four creature deaths in a single turn, transforming the commander into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel and creating an indelible life-drain emblem. Paired with oppressive control pieces like Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Braids, Cabal Minion, the deck strips opposing boards of creatures while accelerating toward a Turn 8 finish via mass drain, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or Living Death.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Erebos
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Diregraf Horde
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Final Days
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat