Dragons? by CONDOR

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal and midrange theft deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, the commander provides a passive eminence cost reduction of {1} to all Sphinx spells, allowing the deck to deploy high-cost flying threats ahead of schedule. The early game focuses on establishing a mana foundation using mana rocks, Mishra's Workshop, and utility lands. By turns 4 and 5, the deck transitions into deploying engines such as Consecrated Sphinx, Raffine, Scheming Seer, and Sphinx Summoner to generate card advantage and tutor key pieces. On turn 6, the deck reaches critical onset by resolving The Ur-Sphinx for mass mill and free spell casting, or by dropping Magister Sphinx to quickly set life totals to 10. Evasive aerial combat and asymmetric resource swings close out the game over the following two turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Argent Sphinx
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Azorius Keyrune
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Belltower Sphinx
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
  • 1 Orzhov Keyrune
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pol Jamaar, Illusionist
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Progenitor's Icon
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vexing Sphinx
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winds of Abandon