Eminence is back? by CommanderLvl7

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal and reanimator strategy helmed by The Ur-Sphinx. The commander provides a constant eminence cost reduction from the command zone, allowing the deck to deploy massive flying threats ahead of curve. The early game focuses on establishing mana rocks, cost reducers like Urza's Incubator, and tutoring high-value Sphinxes into the graveyard. On Turn 4, the deck assembles its core engine around Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or reanimates premier cards like Consecrated Sphinx. By Turn 5, it floods the board with flying beaters, casts mass reanimation spells like Living Death, or exploits Magister Sphinx and Medomai the Ageless to slash life totals and take extra turns. A comprehensive defensive package including Teferi's Protection and Flawless Maneuver safeguards the board, allowing the deck to close the game on Turn 6 with evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archive Arbiter
• 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Denzilore Fatehold
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
• 1 Kindred Judgment
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mass Polymorph
• 1 Medomai the Ageless
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Polymorph
• 1 Proteus Staff
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Show and Tell
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Synthetic Destiny
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Uldaros Theorix
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Warden of Evos Isle
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign