Sphinx 1.8T by Chains96

Format: Commander

Commander: Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx-tribal control and combo deck commanded by Tivit, Seller of Secrets. The primary win condition centers on the compact infinite turn loop between Tivit and Time Sieve. Casting Tivit on Turn 5 generates five artifact tokens via Council's dilemma, which immediately fuels Time Sieve to take an extra turn. On each subsequent extra turn, Tivit attacks to create five more tokens, sustaining endless extra turns until all opponents are eliminated through lethal commander damage. A robust suite of 13 low-cost mana rocks and cost reducers accelerates this plan, while Sphinx tribal synergies—such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Magister Sphinx, and Sphinx of the Second Sun—provide a resilient secondary midrange engine. The deck protects its combo turns with Teferi, Time Raveler, Dawn's Truce, and efficient countermagic, while controlling the board with premium spot exile and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Head Games
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 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 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winds of Abandon