New Untitled Deck by user8255771

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

The Ur-Sphinx commands an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange deck engineered to deploy massive, evasive flying threats ahead of curve. The deck capitalizes on its commander's Eminence ability to provide a permanent cost reduction to all Sphinx spells from the command zone. This cost cheating is amplified by artifacts and enchantments like Urza's Incubator, Herald's Horn, and Heartless Summoning, enabling the deck to cast game-defining 5- and 6-mana Sphinxes on Turns 3 and 4. Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx form an explosive card-advantage core that churns through the library, while Magister Sphinx and Medomai the Ageless apply decisive pressure by crippling life totals and generating extra turns. A resilient interaction suite of cheap blinks like Ephemerate, efficient spot removal, and asymmetric sweepers like Raise the Palisade ensures the deck can protect its board, disrupt opponents, and close out the table through overwhelming aerial combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Case of the Shifting Visage
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Omni-Changeling
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personify
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Unexplained Absence
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave