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Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, venture into the dungeon. This ability triggers only once each turn. (To venture into the dungeon, enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
Create Undead — Whenever you complete a dungeon, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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What Sefris of the Hidden Ways actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, venture into the dungeon. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever you complete a dungeon, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
What a Sefris of the Hidden Ways deck needs
Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- self-mill and discard of creature cards (each turn it ventures)
- venture and dungeon cards (completing a dungeon reanimates)
The Sefris of the Hidden Ways deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Port of Karfell0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- General's Enforcer2 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
Combos with Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sefris of the Hidden Ways is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Sun Titan + Karmic Guide + Viscera Seer2,546 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward1,349 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Sun Titan + Karmic Guide + Altar Of Dementia957 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Hostage Taker + Barrowin Of Clan Undurr822 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Hostage Taker + White Plume Adventurer719 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Radiant Solar + Sun Titan + Karmic Guide + Ashnod's Altar699 decks