The Ur-Sphinx - Sphinx Tribal by Valaurus

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Esper Sphinx typal midrange strategy helmed by The Ur-Sphinx. The deck leverages its commander's Eminence ability alongside artifacts like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn to deploy high-cost, high-impact Sphinxes turns ahead of curve. The central engine revolves around explosive card advantage engines such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Kindred Discovery, and Consecrated Sphinx, which churn through the library while assembling a formidable flying board. Interaction is dense and efficient, combining unconditional exile removal like Void Rend and Anguished Unmaking with cheap counterspells and asymmetric wipes like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance. Victory is achieved by overwhelming the table through combat damage and free spells cast off The Ur-Sphinx's attack triggers, accelerated by life manipulation from Magister Sphinx.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 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 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign