Sphinxter by RavteCyber

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Esper deck leverages The Ur-Sphinx to command a synergistic Sphinx tribal strategy centered around massive card velocity and heavy aerial combat. Eminence reduces the cost of every Sphinx spell from the command zone, allowing the deck to rapidly deploy high-impact creatures ahead of curve. The core engine is fueled by 13 copies of Sphinx's Approach, which provide consistent draw, discard fodder for Sphinx of the Chimes, and a direct-to-battlefield tutor once four copies fill the graveyard. Value engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Defiler of Dreams chain creature deployments, while asymmetric board wipes such as Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance clear the skies. Defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison deter aggression, buying time to resolve Magister Sphinx or Medomai the Ageless. The deck closes games through overwhelming evasive flying damage augmented by Akroma's Will.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Return to the Light Realms
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of the Chimes
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 13 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign