Esper Sphinxes by OG_GAMER

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal and reanimator deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. The deck uses the commander's eminence ability to reduce Sphinx casting costs right from the command zone while combining fast artifact mana, rituals, and efficient graveyard reanimation. Early turns focus on depositing high-impact fliers like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Consecrated Sphinx, and Tivit, Seller of Secrets into the graveyard using Entomb or Buried Alive, then returning them to play with Reanimate and Animate Dead. Once established, Unesh and Roaming Throne generate overwhelming card advantage by chaining discounted Sphinxes. The deck finishes games through an oppressive flying assault, using Magister Sphinx to collapse life totals to 10 and Raise the Palisade or Cyclonic Rift to clear opposing blockers. A robust suite of countermagic, spot removal, and Teferi's Protection ensures resilience against opposing disruption throughout the execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amoeboid Changeling
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 5 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow