esper blink by user2355844

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx kindred and midrange reanimator deck commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. The game plan utilizes the commander's eminence ability to discount Sphinx spells from the command zone, ramping out efficient flyers and changelings during early turns. In the midgame, value engines such as Kindred Discovery, Reflections of Littjara, and Sphinx of the Second Sun generate substantial card advantage and tempo. The deck applies lethal pressure through combat damage, amplified by reanimated game-enders like Archon of Cruelty and casting high-impact spells milled by The Ur-Sphinx. The list includes comprehensive instant-speed interaction and sweepers to control opposing boards while shielding its own threats with low-cost protection spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Break Under Pressure
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Calculations
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dose of Dawnglow
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Forsake the Worldly
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Imperious Inkmage
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Keep Out
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightfoot Technique
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Long River Lurker
  • 1 Loyal Warhound
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mindwhisker
  • 1 Mischievous Sneakling
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Orzhov Charm
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personify
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumecreed Escort
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prideful Feastling
  • 1 Razaketh's Rite
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rescuer Sphinx
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Stark's Ingenuity
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Surgical Precision
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tidecaller Mentor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign