Not That Ur-Dragon

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy built around cost reduction, aerial beatdown, and substantial card advantage. The commander, The Ur-Sphinx, provides a permanent mana discount from the command zone via Eminence and acts as a massive late-game value engine that casts free spells from milled cards whenever Sphinxes attack. The deck accelerates through a dense suite of 2-drop rocks, cost reducers like Herald's Horn and Urza's Incubator, and explosive draw engines like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx. The strategy controls the board with asymmetric sweepers such as Kindred Dominance and Cyclonic Rift, while protecting its assets with Teferi's Protection and efficient countermagic. Victory is achieved by deploying large, evasive threats that drain life totals and close out the game over two to three combat turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Aetherspouts
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bontu's Monument
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Countersquall
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dream Trawler
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gold Myr
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Inkshield
• 9 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1 Kefnet's Monument
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Kindred Judgment
• 1 Laboratory Maniac
• 1 Leaden Myr
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Medomai the Ageless
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Murder
• 1 Oketra's Monument
• 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 6 Plains
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Silver Myr
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx Sovereign
• 1 Sphinx Summoner
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Warden of Evos Isle
• 1 Watcher of the Spheres
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign