sphinx's by Atrix

Format: Commander

Commander: Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign commands a mono-blue Sphinx tribal deck built around cost reduction and explosive card advantage. Unesh discounts all Sphinx spells by two generic mana and triggers a Fact or Fiction style pile choice whenever a Sphinx enters the battlefield. This engine rapidly digs through the library, fills the graveyard, and chains large flying threats together in a single turn. The deck secures victory primarily through overwhelming aerial combat empowered by anthem effects like Gravitational Shift and Favorable Winds, or by resolving a kicked Rite of Replication. Alternative paths include one-shotting opponents with Atemsis, All-Seeing, or milling libraries with Sphinx Mindbreaker.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Argent Sphinx
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Consuming Tide
  • 1 Countervailing Winds
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Endless Sands
  • 1 Energy Tap
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Flood of Recollection
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gravitational Shift
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Hampering Snare
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Infiltrate
  • 25 Island
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Lantern of Revealing
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Majestic Metamorphosis
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mitotic Manipulation
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
  • 1 Overwhelming Denial
  • 1 Peel from Reality
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Psychic Spiral
  • 1 Refocus
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Replicating Ring
  • 1 Rescuer Sphinx
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rimefire Torque
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 The Surgical Bay
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 You Come to a River