New Untitled Deck by user3486087

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange and reanimator deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. Leveraging passive Eminence cost reduction from the command zone alongside mana rocks and tribal reducers like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn, the deck accelerates into powerful mid-to-high CMC flying Sphinxes ahead of curve. The primary engine revolves around Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx, which generate massive card advantage and stock the graveyard with large threats. A dedicated reanimation suite featuring Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Necromancy allows the deck to cheat expensive Sphinxes into play early and recover instantly from board wipes. The win condition focuses on dominant aerial combat pressure, accelerated by Magister Sphinx resetting opponent life totals to 10 and supported by versatile protection and removal suites including Cyclonic Rift, Dovin's Veto, and Anguished Unmaking.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 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 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign