Ur Shpinx by user5546964

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Esper Sphinx tribal and control deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, the commander provides a constant Eminence cost reduction that accelerates expensive, high-toughness flyers onto the battlefield well ahead of curve. The early game establishes acceleration via low-cost artifacts and cost-reducing permanents, setting up Turn 4 deployments of powerhouse card engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx. The midgame leverages Esper's premier reactive suite—combining unconditional exile removal, cheap counterspells, and asymmetric bounce spells like Raise the Palisade and Cyclonic Rift—to protect its board and suppress opposing game plans. Once The Ur-Sphinx enters combat alongside other Sphinxes, it mills all players and casts their best nonland cards for free, rapidly compounding board presence and closing out the game through evasive combat damage and Magister Sphinx life reduction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 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 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign