The Fallen Angel by user7252883

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and edict control strategy commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The primary plan develops recurring sacrifice fodder like Reassembling Skeleton and Bloodghast alongside sacrifice outlets and drain payoffs such as Blood Artist and Marionette Apprentice. Sephiroth enters on curve to convert sacrifices into card advantage and steady life drain, quickly aiming to trigger four creature deaths in a single turn to transform into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel. Upon transforming, Sephiroth grants a permanent emblem that doubles down on death-triggered drain while threatening flying commander combat damage. The deck exerts severe mid-game board control through asymmetric edicts from Accursed Marauder, Braids, Arisen Nightmare, and Zodiark, Umbral God, while The Darkness Crystal exiles opposing creatures to shut down opposing graveyard strategies. The game concludes around Turn 8 through accumulated drain, a devastating Massacre Wurm or Rise of the Dark Realms, or an infinite drain loop via Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Liliana, Death Wielder
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Loot, the Anomaly
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Proft, Sinister Mastermind
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Vayne's Treachery
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God