Secret Sphinx by maulstar

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. The game plan utilizes passive Eminence cost reduction alongside dedicated mana acceleration artifacts such as Urza's Incubator, Heartless Summoning, and Arcane Signet to cheat the timing curve of high-cost Sphinx creatures. By Turn 4 to 5, the deck establishes dominant card advantage engines led by Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, and Kozilek's Unsealing. On Turn 6, it converts this card and mana surplus into lethal pressure through flying beatdown, life-setting triggers like Magister Sphinx, or game-ending spells like Breach the Multiverse and Approach of the Second Sun. The deck features solid single-target interaction and strong board-wipe recovery via mass reanimation, though it carries minimal countermagic and relies heavily on surviving creature combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign