New Untitled Deck by Zodly

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This Esper deck combines Sphinx tribal synergies with a fast reanimator core under The Ur-Sphinx. The primary strategy uses fast mana and graveyard tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive to put massive Sphinxes or Razaketh, the Foulblooded into the graveyard on early turns. Efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate and Animate Dead cheat these threats into play by Turn 3. Once on the battlefield, engine creatures like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx generate massive card advantage, while Magister Sphinx drops opposing life totals to 10. The deck protects its board using premier interaction, including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Swords to Plowshares. It wins through overwhelming aerial combat across Turns 5 to 7, boosted by The Ur-Sphinx casting free spells during attacks. The deck functions reliably without ever needing to cast its 9-mana commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 9 Sphinx's Approach
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign