Sphinx Dilema by user9181255

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck leverages the eminence ability of The Ur-Sphinx to reduce the cost of large, evasive Sphinx creatures throughout the game. In the early turns, it accelerates through two-mana mana rocks and cost reducers before landing high-impact engine pieces like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Kindred Discovery around Turn 4. The midgame is dominated by cascading card advantage and casting formidable flying threats that generate immense value on entry and attack. Key closers like Magister Sphinx, Sphinx of the Steel Wind, and Medomai the Ageless apply severe life pressure and extra-turn advantages, establishing a critical onset around Turn 6 and closing games by Turn 8. Backed by versatile Esper removal, efficient counterspells, board wipes, and cheap graveyard reanimation, the deck possesses strong resilience against sweepers while consistently overwhelming opposing life totals in the air.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Ball
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign