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Price
€100.00of €100.00
Overall win rate
39%102 wins in 261 scored games
Games
270 (9)played in 27 tournaments, 9 not scored (time limit)
Rank
9in the rankings up to €100 · Elo 1671 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 25 of them basic
Game Changer
0of at most 3 allowed
Combos
5complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €100 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

The shopping list was rebuilt with current prices on Oct 26, 2026: the tested version had risen to €100.36, above €100.00. Win rate and placement come from the tested version.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (43)

Instants (7)

Sorceries (4)

Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (5)

Lands (34)

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (5)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Pitiless Plunderer + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    42 versions, each with one of: Reassembling Skeleton · Bloodsoaked Champion · Blight Mound · Ogre Slumlord · Open the Graves · Viscera Seer and 6 more
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    6 versions, each with one of: Viscera Seer · Carrion Feeder · Umbral Collar Zealot · Woe Strider · Yahenni, Undying Partisan · Phantom Train
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Priest of Gix + … → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Greedy Freebooter · Pitiless Plunderer · Shambling Ghast
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Shambling Ghast + Greedy Freebooter + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
    2 versions, each with one of: Pitiless Plunderer · Pawn of Ulamog
  • Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Nether Traitor + Pawn of Ulamog + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 54 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 54 entries
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Carrion Feeder → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Umbral Collar Zealot → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer + The Masamune → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Woe Strider → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Yahenni, Undying Partisan → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder + The Masamune → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Viscera Seer + Blight Mound + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB
  • Viscera Seer + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Nether Traitor + Pawn of Ulamog + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Pitiless Plunderer + Shambling Ghast + Greedy Freebooter → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Priest of Gix + Greedy Freebooter → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Priest of Gix + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Viscera Seer + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Umbral Collar Zealot + The Masamune → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Priest of Gix + Shambling Ghast → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + The Masamune → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Woe Strider + The Masamune → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Woe Strider + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chthonian Nightmare + Pawn of Ulamog + Shambling Ghast + Greedy Freebooter → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Woe Strider + Blight Mound + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Umbral Collar Zealot + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Viscera Seer + Blight Mound + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Viscera Seer + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Umbral Collar Zealot + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Woe Strider + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Bloodsoaked Champion + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Umbral Collar Zealot + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Viscera Seer + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Woe Strider + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Woe Strider + Blight Mound + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Bloodsoaked Champion + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Phantom Train → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Umbral Collar Zealot + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + The Masamune + Phantom Train → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Umbral Collar Zealot + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Woe Strider + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Umbral Collar Zealot + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord + Phantom Train → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves + Phantom Train → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Blight Mound + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Phantom Train → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Ogre Slumlord + Phantom Train → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Blight Mound + Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Phantom Train → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Bloodsoaked Champion + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves + Phantom Train → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

What the games show

From 261 analysed games in 27 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 86% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Rarely out first: eliminated first in only 18% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (46 of 261 games)

Weaknesses

  • Little pressure: only avg 23 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 31) logged (261 games)
  • Depends on its commander: only 0% wins without it, 40% with it indication (9 games without, 252 with commander)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.45 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.63) logged (261 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 261 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel avg 4.2hit in 107 of 261 games
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 3.4hit in 41 of 261 games
  3. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER avg 2.0hit in 104 of 261 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 21.4hit in 41 of 261 games
  2. Zodiark, Umbral God avg 20.0hit in 25 of 261 games
  3. Galian Beast avg 18.1hit in 15 of 261 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 24×261 games in deck
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim 18×261 games in deck
  3. Carrion Feeder 8×241 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Accursed Marauder 104×avg 0.4 per game · 261 games in deck
  2. Zodiark, Umbral God 96×avg 0.4 per game · 261 games in deck
  3. Flare of Malice 94×avg 0.4 per game · 261 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 21% of 2249 attackers blocked in total, 12% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Human Soldier Token 16×blocked in 5 games
  2. Soldier Token 10×blocked in 6 games
  3. Human Token 9×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 0%cast in 0 of 241 games
  2. Blood Artist 13%cast in 34 of 261 games
  3. Open the Graves 14%cast in 36 of 261 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 102 wins came

  • by turn 71%
  • turns 8–911%
  • turns 10–1139%
  • turns 12–1332%
  • turn 14+17%

Combos in play logged Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Carrion Feeder: all pieces cast in 3 games, 3 won · Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Umbral Collar Zealot: all pieces cast in 3 games, 3 won · Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer + The Masamune: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.49

0
15
1
20
2
19
3
5
4
6
5
6
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
10 / 9
Card draw
7 / 9
Removal
11 / 10
Board wipe
0 / 2
Protection
1 / 2
Strategy
36 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
43
Instants
7
Sorceries
4
Artifacts
6
Enchantments
5
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Skullclamp
€4.63
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
€4.41
Ayara, First of Locthwain
€4.14
Lightning Greaves
€3.08
Pitiless Plunderer
€2.96
Flare of Malice
€2.81
Carrion Feeder
€2.52
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
€2.26

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Al Bhed Salvagers instead of Ghoulish Procession · win rate 43% with, 36% without (126 / 135 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Solemn Simulacrum instead of Undercity Dire Rat · win rate 34% with, 40% without (50 / 211 games)
  • no clear difference Eaten Alive instead of Cornered by Black Mages · win rate 37% with, 42% without (146 / 115 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Fake Your Own Death instead of Solemn Simulacrum · win rate 38% with, 41% without (156 / 105 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Sephiroth's Intervention instead of Worthy Cost · win rate 37% with, 40% without (110 / 151 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Summon: Anima instead of Cornered by Black Mages · win rate 37% with, 40% without (86 / 175 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Worthy Cost instead of Vayne's Treachery · win rate 41% with, 38% without (106 / 155 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now

9 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €100.00 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 1 · average place 17.0 · 3× top 3 · 12× top 10 out of 27 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?