New Untitled Deck by user2721344

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. It utilizes the commander's eminence ability alongside colorless cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn to circumvent the prohibitive mana costs of iconic Sphinxes. The early game establishes acceleration and scry engines to smooth land drops. By the mid-game, the deck deploys high-impact aerial threats such as Tivit, Seller of Secrets, Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign, and Consecrated Sphinx. The game plan transitions into critical pressure around Turn 6, using Magister Sphinx or wide evasion to chunk down life totals while leaning on a sturdy suite of 1-2 CMC countermagic and protection spells like Teferi's Protection to defend the board. While the combat clock requires multiple turns to finish the entire table, the combination of flying beaters, card advantage, and late-game reanimation allows it to outlast opposing attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Cloudreader Sphinx
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Horizon Scholar
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marauding Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Dispute
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign