The Ur-Sphinx by DrBean

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Esper deck focuses on ramping aggressively into its 9-mana commander, The Ur-Sphinx. By utilizing a dense package of 2-drop mana rocks and Sphinx cost-reducers, the deck accelerates past its high mana requirements. Once on the battlefield, The Ur-Sphinx leverages cheap changelings and clone effects like Auton Soldier, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, and Spark Double to trigger its attack ability multiple times. Each attack mills all players and casts up to four free spells directly from the milled cards. The deck turns this massive card advantage into game-ending combat steps via Akroma's Will, Mirror Entity, and Rise of the Dark Realms, closing out games within two turns of its first attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Impostor of the Sixth Pride
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Geode
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Replicating Ring
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shapesharer
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer