esfingir by vite

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, its Eminence ability provides a permanent one-mana cost reduction to all Sphinx spells, allowing the deck to deploy hefty flying creatures ahead of curve. The core engine focuses on accelerating into Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or Consecrated Sphinx by Turn 4 to generate massive card flow. From there, the deck floods the board with high-impact flyers such as Magister Sphinx, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, and Medomai the Ageless. It controls the tempo of the table through versatile interaction, cheap countermagic, and asymmetric board resets like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance. Graveyard recursion spells like Patriarch's Bidding provide rapid resilience against opposing sweepers. The deck wins by delivering overwhelming aerial combat damage across two combat rotations around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign