New Untitled Deck by Jbhayes2

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Esper Sphinx kindred deck leverages The Ur-Sphinx's eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Sphinx spells right from the command zone. Supported by artifact ramp and cost-reducers such as Urza's Incubator and Sapphire Medallion, the deck accelerates into powerful engine centerpieces including Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx by Turn 4. These creatures draw an overwhelming volume of cards, enabling the rapid deployment of massive flying beaters. Evasive combat pressure is heightened by Magister Sphinx reducing enemy life totals to 10 and Chronicle of Victory granting significant team buffs. A robust Esper control package featuring Swords to Plowshares, Anguished Unmaking, Damn, and stax pieces like Kismet and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV disrupts opposing strategies while buying time to establish aerial supremacy. Late-game resilience is cemented by powerful mass recursion spells like Return to the Light Realms, which easily rebuild the board following opposing sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Case of the Shifting Visage
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enhanced Surveillance
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kismet
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mischievous Sneakling
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Return to the Light Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign