The Pilfered Pantheon by DGMCKNIGHT

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck leverages The Ur-Sphinx to command an Esper Sphinx tribal and reanimator strategy. In the early game, the commander's eminence ability discounts heavy Sphinx spells from the command zone, allowing you to establish large flying threats ahead of curve. The deck combines artifact mana, cost reducers, and graveyard tutoring via Entomb and Buried Alive to cheat high-impact Sphinxes into play using cheap reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Living Death. Once an overwhelming board of evasive beaters is established or mass recursion resolves, the deck closes the game through sheer flying combat damage, card advantage engines, and stealing opponents milled spells with The Ur-Sphinx.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx