New Untitled Deck by user9050014

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy that leverages cost reduction, card flow, and evasive combat. Commander The Ur-Sphinx provides built-in eminence from the command zone, reducing Sphinx casting costs by {1}. The deck combines 2-mana ramp and artifact cost reducers like Urza's Incubator to deploy high-impact Sphinxes ahead of curve. Key centerpieces like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx generate massive card advantage, while Magister Sphinx rapidly drops opponent life totals to 10. Win conditions focus on overwhelming the table with evasive flyers, supported by asymmetric board wipes like Raise the Palisade and Cyclonic Rift. The deck features versatile instant-speed interaction and resilient reanimation engines like Reanimate and Living Death to recover from board wipes, though it requires multiple combat steps to defeat three opponents.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 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 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign