MY UR-Sphinx by Honawe

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, the commander provides a constant one-mana cost reduction for all other Sphinx spells, enabling high-cost creatures to enter well ahead of their printed curves. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana artifacts and cost reducers like Urza's Incubator to establish a stable mana base. By turn 4, the deck pivots into powerful engine creatures like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Defiler of Dreams, and Consecrated Sphinx to generate continuous card advantage and board presence. Interaction is managed through flexible counterspells, targeted removal, and asymmetric sweepers such as Raise the Palisade. In the mid-to-late game, the deck leverages massive flying threats and life-total manipulation from Magister Sphinx to eliminate opponents across successive aerial combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Etherwrought Page
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glyph Keeper
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
  • 1 Lawmage's Binding
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Officious Interrogation
  • 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Safe Passage
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
  • 1 Serra Sphinx
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sphinx's Insight
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Wojek Investigator
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign