New Untitled Deck by user3526008

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck executes an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy powered by The Ur-Sphinx. The commander's eminence ability reduces the cost of all Sphinx spells from the command zone, allowing the deck to accelerate high-cost flying threats into play ahead of schedule. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and tribal cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn. By Turn 5, engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Raffine, Scheming Seer provide substantial card selection. The deck establishes critical onset around Turn 6 by deploying The Ur-Sphinx, triggering mass mill and free spell-casting on attack while threatening lethal flying damage. Efficient removal like Swords to Plowshares and Toxic Deluge handles opposing threats, while an incidental combo between Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank offers an alternate win condition. The deck finishes games around Turn 8 through overwhelming aerial combat and stolen resources.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Jelenn Sphinx
  • 1 Laboratory Drudge
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marauding Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Stoic Sphinx
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign