The Ur-Sphinx by user6723687

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper kindred strategy built around Sphinxes and cost reduction. With The Ur-Sphinx in the command zone, every Sphinx spell costs one less generic mana from turn 1. The deck uses low-cost artifacts, Heartless Summoning, and Urza's Incubator to deploy massive flying creatures well ahead of curve. Once on the battlefield, cards like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx create overwhelming card advantage, while asymmetric sweepers like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Judgment clear opposing boards. Life totals are pressured rapidly through heavy evasive flying damage and Magister Sphinx, while interaction pieces like Dovin's Veto and Mana Drain protect the board. Built-in resilience from eminence and graveyard recursion ensures quick recovery from disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 5 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign