Ur Sphinx by hastyworx

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

The Ur-Sphinx commands an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange deck that pairs passive eminence cost reduction with massive flying threats and continuous card selection. The deck leverages efficient artifact ramp to deploy large Sphinxes 1 to 2 turns ahead of curve, turning creatures into card engines with Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Kindred Discovery. Once established, the deck applies severe pressure in the air using Magister Sphinx to slash life totals and Sphinx of the Second Sun to double untap and draw steps. An alternate infinite combo in Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank gives the deck a compact out against stalled boards. Supported by a flexible Esper interaction suite of low-mana counterspells and spot removal, the deck controls opposing threats while protecting its own engine, reliably eliminating all three opponents through aerial combat by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Cunning
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Deadeye Navigator
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dream Eater
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Esper Panorama
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Flesh Duplicate
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 4 Island
• 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Master of Winds
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Negate
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 4 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Sphinx Summoner
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of Foresight
• 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
• 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
• 1 Sphinx of Magosi
• 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Universal Automaton
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Windfall