New Untitled Deck by user1074206

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy that leverages The Ur-Sphinx's eminence ability to discount expensive flying creatures straight from the command zone. Supported by low-cost mana artifacts like Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Talismans, the deck accelerates into powerful mid-game flyers such as Consecrated Sphinx, Defiler of Dreams, and Magister Sphinx. Defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison tax incoming attacks, granting the time needed to build an imposing aerial armada. By Turn 6, the deck presents must-answer board states with massive flying power or by casting The Ur-Sphinx to mill opponents and cast their spells for free. Combat finishes follow over two response cycles on Turn 8, empowered by Akroma's Will or game-warping bombs like Expropriate. While vulnerable to mass creature sweepers and mana-intensive turns, redundant high-impact threats and resilient keywords ensure steady, inevitable pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argent Sphinx
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Conundrum Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flow of Knowledge
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx