The Ur-Sphinx Tribal Deck!!!!! by Oldmanshanky

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper kindred strategy built around Sphinxes and flying combat. Commanded by The Ur-Sphinx, the deck benefits from an eminence ability that discounts all other Sphinx spells by one mana from turn one. The early game focuses on deploying efficient mana rocks and cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Heartless Summoning to cast large 5-to-7 mana Sphinxes ahead of curve. On Turn 4, engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx generate massive card advantage. By Turn 6, the deck converts this card surplus into a lethal aerial board, supported by asymmetric board wipes such as Raise the Palisade and Kindred Judgment. Protection spells like Dovin's Veto, Galadriel's Dismissal, and the uncounterable nature of Sphinx of the Final Word safeguard the board against opposing interaction while closing out the game across two combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chancellor of the Spires
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Curator of Destinies
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Denzilore Fatehold
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dream Trawler
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 1 Floodfarm Verge
• 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gleaming Bastion
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Guardian of Tazeem
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Heartless Summoning
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 6 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Judgment
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Medomai the Ageless
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 4 Plains
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Prognostic Sphinx
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx Ambassador
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of Foresight
• 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 5 Sphinx's Approach
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 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 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Uldaros Theorix
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign