The Ur-Sphinx - test by iovas17

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx kindred strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, the commander provides a constant one-mana cost reduction for all Sphinx spells. The deck compounds this velocity using artifacts and enchantments like Urza's Incubator, Heartless Summoning, and Sapphire Medallion to deploy large flying threats well ahead of schedule. Key engine pieces like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx generate massive card advantage, digging through the library and filling the graveyard. The deck controls the board with efficient spot removal, uncounterable countermagic like Dovin's Veto and Void Rend, and one-sided sweepers such as Raise the Palisade. It finishes games through evasive aerial combat, accelerated by Magister Sphinx, extra turns from Medomai the Ageless, and mass kindred reanimation via Haunting Voyage or Bloodline Bidding. While resilient to sweepers thanks to graveyard recovery, the deck relies primarily on combat damage across multiple turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign