Ur-Sphinx by andisir

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx Typal Reanimator strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. It leverages passive eminence alongside dense low-cost mana rocks and tribal reducers like Urza's Incubator, Herald's Horn, and Heartless Summoning to bypass the heavy mana costs of the Sphinx creature type. The primary game plan focuses on establishing early cost reductions by Turn 3, deploying massive card-advantage engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Tivit, Seller of Secrets on Turn 4, and flooding the board with high-impact flying beaters. Between Turns 5 and 7, the deck pressures opponents through evasive aerial combat, explosive reanimation via Breach the Multiverse and Reanimate, and decisive burst damage using Magister Sphinx and Akroma's Will. A robust suite of 13 efficient interaction spells, including Dovin's Veto, Swan Song, and Toxic Deluge, protects the board and disrupts critical opposing plays while the aerial fleet systematically dismantles life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persist
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Temur
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign