Ur-Next by jasonator92

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. From the command zone, the commander provides a passive eminence cost reduction of one generic mana for all Sphinx spells, allowing heavy-hitting flyers to hit the battlefield significantly ahead of schedule. The early game focuses on deploying low-cost mana rocks, cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Heartless Summoning, and establishing value engines such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or Kindred Discovery. By the midgame, the deck establishes an overwhelming board of large flying creatures with disruptive and card-drawing triggers, including Tivit, Seller of Secrets, Consecrated Sphinx, and Magister Sphinx. Combat pressure accelerates quickly as attacks trigger free spells from The Ur-Sphinx, while one-sided board wipes like Raise the Palisade and Kindred Judgment clear opposing blockers to close out the game through evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign