Better Ur-Sphinx by smahon90

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy built to overpower the table through cost reduction, massive card advantage, and evasive aerial combat. In the early game, the deck accelerates using 2-CMC artifacts and the passive Eminence ability of The Ur-Sphinx to deploy mid-curve Sphinxes ahead of curve. By Turn 4, it establishes card engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or Kindred Discovery to rapidly draw into powerful threats and interaction. On Turns 5 through 8, the deck resolves backbreaking flying bombs such as Consecrated Sphinx, Medomai the Ageless, and Elenda and Azor, overwhelming opposing life totals in combat. A premier Esper interaction suite featuring Mana Drain, Dovin's Veto, Void Rend, and Raise the Palisade defends your board while keeping opposing win conditions in check.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign