Draft - Cheating (S)crying Sphinxes by user5915001

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. It leverages the commander's eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Sphinx spells by one colorless mana from the very start of the game. The primary game plan focuses on accelerating into high-impact flying Sphinxes such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Consecrated Sphinx, and Tivit, Seller of Secrets to establish overwhelming card advantage and mana velocity. Cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Semblance Anvil allow the deck to deploy multiple massive fliers each turn. The deck transitions into a lethal clock by Turn 6, utilizing heavy hitters like Magister Sphinx, Sphinx of the Steel Wind, and Medomai the Ageless to rapidly eliminate opponents in combat. Graveyard recursion through Reanimate and Bloodline Bidding ensures fast recovery from sweepers, while Kindred Dominance provides an asymmetric board wipe to clear opposing blockers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Call to the Kindred
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conundrum Sphinx
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign