Ur Sphinx by Sm3llyF1ng3rs

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. The commander provides a constant Eminence cost reduction from the command zone, allowing you to cast expensive, high-toughness flying Sphinxes ahead of curve. The early turns focus on setting up mana rocks and cost reducers like Heartless Summoning and Herald's Horn to deploy mid-range value engines such as Defiler of Dreams, Sphinx of Clear Skies, and Kozilek's Unsealing. In the mid-to-late game, the deck leverages asymmetric board wipes like Kindred Judgment, high-impact threats like Magister Sphinx, and reanimation spells such as Rise of the Dark Realms and Victimize to overwhelm opponents in the air while incidental mill fuels the graveyard. Pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison protect your life total while your flyers close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Conundrum Sphinx
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marauding Sphinx
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Winnowing
  • 1 Zombify