Sphinx Tribal by silent569

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx kindred strategy led by The Ur-Sphinx. The deck leverages eminence to reduce the mana cost of its high-impact flying creatures. In the early turns, it establishes mana rocks and cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Heartless Summoning. By Turn 4, it deploys card-advantage engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Kindred Discovery to rapidly churn through the library. During the mid-game, it drops overwhelming flying beaters, utilizing Magister Sphinx to truncate life totals, Medomai the Ageless for extra turns, and Breach the Multiverse or Rise of the Dark Realms to flood the battlefield from graveyards. Asymmetric sweepers like Kindred Dominance clear opposing boards while keeping your aerial army intact, closing games out through decisive combat damage by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 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
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign