Ur-Sphinx by user8276196

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal and reanimator deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. It utilizes the commander's Eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Sphinx spells right from the command zone. The deck's primary strategy revolves around filtering high-cost Sphinxes into the graveyard using early discard outlets like Careful Study and Frantic Search, then reanimating them on Turn 4 with cheap reanimation spells such as Animate Dead, Persist, and Victimize. Anchors like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign generate explosive card advantage and further cost reductions, while Magister Sphinx immediately reduces opponents' life totals to 10. The deck can also execute an infinite extra turns combo using Phantom Steed and Medomai the Ageless. Defended by efficient blink spells and uncounterable Sphinxes, the deck closes out the game by Turn 7 through overwhelming aerial combat and mass reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandon Hope
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Belltower Sphinx
  • 1 Call to the Kindred
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Last Rites
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marauding Sphinx
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 One with Nothing
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phantom Steed
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx's Decree
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign