Ursphinx 2.0 by user7733820

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Esper deck leverages The Ur-Sphinx to combine tribal cost reduction with high-impact reanimation and combat theft. Its eminence ability provides a permanent one-mana discount on all Sphinx spells, allowing heavy flyers to curve out ahead of schedule. The early game focuses on setting up mana rocks and low-cost changelings like Changeling Outcast, while using discard outlets, Entomb, or natural filtering to place game-ending Sphinxes into the graveyard. By turn 4, the deck reanimates or casts anchor threats such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, or The Ur-Sphinx. Once on the battlefield, attacking with Sphinxes triggers mass mill and casts up to four stolen spells each combat for free. Supported by premium countermagic like Force of Will and flexible removal, the deck defends its board until closing the game on turn 6 through Akroma's Will, Magister Sphinx, or extra turns from Medomai the Ageless.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Winds
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign