Sphinx by user3512604

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper kindred midrange build centered on The Ur-Sphinx. Leveraging the commander's eminence ability from the command zone, every Sphinx spell costs one generic mana less right from the start of the game. The deck accelerates through two-mana artifacts and tribal reducers like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn, enabling early deployment of high-impact flying Sphinxes. Card velocity is sustained by powerful engines such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Consecrated Sphinx, and Kindred Discovery. The win condition relies on overwhelming the table through evasive combat damage, accelerated by Magister Sphinx setting life totals to 10 and The Ur-Sphinx milling and casting free spells on attack. A robust suite of low-cost removal, countermagic, and asymmetric board wipes like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Dominance ensures that opposing threats are answered while keeping the Sphinx flock intact.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign