New Untitled Deck (copy)

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Ur-Sphinx leads an Esper Sphinx tribal strategy that leverages passive cost reduction from the command zone to deploy overwhelming aerial threats ahead of curve. The deck focuses on accelerating mana, chaining massive flying creatures, and overwhelming opponents through combat damage. Core engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Kindred Discovery provide immense card advantage to maintain momentum. Once the skies are secured, game-ending powerhouses such as True Conviction, Magister Sphinx, and Medomai the Ageless close out the match, while casting The Ur-Sphinx itself mills opponents and casts their best spells for free to finish the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call to the Kindred
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conundrum Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glyph Keeper
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kaya the Inexorable
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rooftop Percher
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Stoic Sphinx
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Vexing Sphinx
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Winged Words
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign