UR-Sphinx by MTGIsMyPassion69

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx typal strategy powered by The Ur-Sphinx, which passively reduces Sphinx casting costs via Eminence before entering late game to generate game-ending card advantage. The game plan focuses on deploying early artifact ramp to drop powerful 5-to-7 mana Sphinxes ahead of curve. Value engines such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Kindred Discovery, and Windreader Sphinx ensure the hand stays full of answers and threats. Defensive permanents like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda stall ground-based aggro while your airborne armada builds. The win condition relies on overwhelming aerial combat, asymmetric typal board wipes like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Judgment, and dramatic life total manipulation via Magister Sphinx. While vulnerable to repeated mass removal due to high creature mana values, the deck boasts immense late-game resilience and air superiority.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Belltower Sphinx
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glyph Keeper
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 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 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign