Sphinx fun by FabutheFaithless

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. It uses the commander's Eminence ability to discount heavy Sphinx threats right from the command zone. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient two-mana artifacts, enabling Turn 4 deployments of powerhouse card engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx. Once assembled, the deck chains massive flying threats, generates overwhelming card advantage, and stabilizes life totals using defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison. The midgame revolves around protecting the board with targeted counterspells while disrupting opposing boards with one-sided board wipes like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance. Finally, the deck closes the game on Turn 8 through overwhelming aerial combat damage, backed by uncounterable spells via Sphinx of the Final Word and free spell casting off the commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Future Sight
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 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 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign