AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Gravecrawler + Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel + Warren Soultrader
Overview
You can repeatedly cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard while you control Warren Soultrader (a Zombie) and then sacrifice Gravecrawler to Warren’s activated ability to create Treasures. Each time a creature dies while Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER (the front face) is on the battlefield, Sephiroth’s “Whenever another creature dies” triggered ability will trigger; each time that triggered ability resolves it causes an opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life, and when that triggered ability has resolved for the fourth time in a single turn Sephiroth will transform (and when it transforms normally you get the emblem on the transform instruction). The ruling that matters for casting Gravecrawler from the graveyard is that once Gravecrawler has been cast and is on the stack, it doesn’t matter if you subsequently lose control of the Zombie that enabled casting [Ruling 2011-01-22]. The double-faced-card/transform consideration that matters for the emblem is the ruling that if the card somehow enters the battlefield already back face up it didn’t transform, so you don’t get the emblem [Ruling 2025-06-06]. Also remember double-faced card information visible is the face that’s up for most purposes and permanents enter the battlefield with normal status characteristics unless an effect says otherwise .
Step 1
Make sure Warren Soultrader is on the battlefield (it is a Zombie) and Gravecrawler is in your graveyard.
Step 2
Cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard for 
(the static permission on Gravecrawler allows this as long as you control a Zombie). Once the Gravecrawler spell is on the stack, you may lose control of the Zombie and the spell will still resolve [Ruling 2011-01-22].
(the static permission on Gravecrawler allows this as long as you control a Zombie). Once the Gravecrawler spell is on the stack, you may lose control of the Zombie and the spell will still resolve [Ruling 2011-01-22].Step 3
When Gravecrawler resolves it enters the battlefield as a creature (a legal sacrifice target for Warren).
Step 4
Activate Warren Soultrader’s ability by paying 1 life and sacrificing another creature (sacrifice Gravecrawler). Warren’s ability is an activated ability with a cost; sacrificing Gravecrawler as the cost causes Gravecrawler to die and go to the graveyard.
Step 5
Each time a creature dies while Sephiroth is on the battlefield, Sephiroth’s triggered ability “Whenever another creature dies…” triggers and is put on the stack. When each of those triggers resolves it causes an opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life; count each resolution toward the transform threshold.
Step 6
Repeat casting Gravecrawler from your graveyard (step 2) and sacrificing it to Warren (step 4) as many times as resources allow to generate repeated death events and thus repeated Sephiroth triggers.
Step 7
When Sephiroth’s death-triggered ability has resolved for the fourth time during the same turn, Sephiroth transforms into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (the back face). As part of the normal transform process the back face’s Super Nova transform instruction gives you the emblem, unless Sephiroth somehow entered the battlefield back face up (in which case it did not transform and you do not get the emblem) [Ruling 2025-06-06].
Step 8
After Sephiroth is back face up (transformed), its attack-trigger text lets you sacrifice any number of other creatures to draw that many cards; those sacrifices will again trigger the death-triggered ability (now either still existing on the back face or provided by the emblem, depending on timing and what text is present) and will interact accordingly.
Resolution
You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as Warren Soultrader (or any Zombie you control) is present to satisfy Gravecrawler’s static permission; once Gravecrawler is cast and on the stack, you may sacrifice Warren (or otherwise lose control of that Zombie) and Gravecrawler can still resolve [Ruling 2011-01-22]. Sacrificing creatures (whether via Sephiroth’s sacrifice-on-enter/attack effect, Warren’s activated ability, or any other means) causes creatures to die and thus creates Sephiroth’s “Whenever another creature dies” triggers; each such trigger resolves separately, causing the life change and counting toward the transform threshold. When that death-triggered ability has resolved for the fourth time in a turn, Sephiroth transforms and, as it transforms normally, will give you the emblem specified by its transform text; however, if the card instead somehow entered the battlefield with its back face up (did not actually transform), you do not get the emblem [Ruling 2025-06-06].
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