Egyptian Tribal by user8248065

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Esper Sphinx tribal deck leverages The Ur-Sphinx's eminence ability alongside dedicated cost reducers to cast massive, evasive flying creatures ahead of schedule. The early game focuses on deploying mana rocks and tribal accelerants like Herald's Horn and Urza's Incubator. Once Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign enters the battlefield on Turn 5, every subsequent Sphinx triggers a four-card mini Fact or Fiction, quickly churning through the library to refill your hand and stock the graveyard. The deck rapidly transitions to critical pressure on Turn 6 by casting high-impact threats like Magister Sphinx, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, and Sphinx of the Second Sun, or resolving mass reanimation spells like Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms. Multiple redundant copies of Sphinx's Approach provide steady card draw and direct-to-battlefield Sphinx tutoring. Opponents face an overwhelming air force protected by innate hexproof and ward abilities, concluding in an aerial table knockout by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Boneyard Parley
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mnemonic Deluge
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelltwine
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of New Prahv
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 8 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Sphinx's Decree
  • 1 Struggle for Project Purity
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thrumming Stone
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign