Ur-Next by sporkles

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Shadow the Hedgehog leads a fast Rakdos combo deck. The primary plan is to use fast mana and dense tutoring to assemble a compact engine-usually Underworld Breach with Lion's Eye Diamond and Grinding Station-before opponents can stabilize. Secondary paths are Dualcaster Mage plus Twinflame for infinite hasty attackers, and Bolas's Citadel with Sensei's Divining Top and Aetherflux Reservoir for a deterministic life kill; Orcish Bowmasters plus Peer into the Abyss acts as a backup. Shadow is the active commander and there is no hidden commander; it doubles as a haste beatdown/draw engine and split-second protection enabler. The deck is graveyard-centric and can pivot between independent lines when hated.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Chancellor of the Spires
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dream Trawler
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Heartless Summoning
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 12 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Judgment
• 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Master of Predicaments
• 1 Medomai the Ageless
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Path to Exile
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Render Silent
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx Ambassador
• 1 Sphinx Summoner
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Temporal Mastery
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 Uldaros Theorix
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign