Sphinx by user9105668

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Esper kindred midrange strategy built around Sphinx tribal synergies and cost reduction. Commanded by The Ur-Sphinx, the deck benefits from an eminence cost-reduction ability that accelerates bulky, evasive threats straight from the command zone. Supported by artifact ramp and kindred reducers such as Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn, the deck deploys game-warping flyers several turns ahead of curve. Card advantage engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx rapidly outdraw the table, refueling the hand while filling the graveyard for reanimation targets. The interactive package is robust, featuring premier spot removal, cheap counterspells, and one-sided kindred sweepers like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance. Once critical mass is reached, overwhelming aerial combat damage—supplemented by life-setting bombs like Magister Sphinx and extra turns from Medomai the Ageless—closes out the game in decisive fashion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 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 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign