How to Mill Ur-Sphinxter by TilDuh

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx-tribal midrange strategy built around The Ur-Sphinx, leveraging its Eminence ability to discount heavy Sphinx threats from the command zone. The deck bridges early acceleration into powerful card engines such as Rhystic Study and Consecrated Sphinx, while filling graveyards through symmetrical mill pieces like Mesmeric Orb and The Ur-Sphinx itself. It can close games rapidly through the infinite two-card combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, a 100% library mill via Bruvac the Grandiloquent and kicked Maddening Cacophony, or sweeping reanimation spells like Rise of the Dark Realms and Living Death. A suite of high-efficiency removal and protection cards defends key windows, while high-impact fliers provide steady board control and evasive combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 29 Island
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Revelation
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vexing Sphinx
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign