Sephiroth 2 by user4990908

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This mono-black Aristocrats deck is commanded by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, using sacrifice outlets, self-recurring creatures, and death-trigger payoffs to grind card advantage and drain opponents. The primary game plan accelerates into a Turn 4 engine assembly, triggering Sephiroth's card draw and life drain before transforming him into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel for a permanent Super Nova emblem. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into a lethal win using infinite sacrifice loops, notably Forsaken Miner with Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader paired with drain payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Sephiroth himself. Heavy edict effects and enchantments like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing creature boards completely suppressed, breaking parity with disposable tokens and recurring skeletons. While the deck possesses explosive card velocity and high combo inevitability, its lack of stack interaction and artifact removal leaves it vulnerable to well-timed noncreature disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat