Riddles in The Wind by Lastlion78

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Esper Sphinx deck leverages the eminence ability of The Ur-Sphinx to reduce the casting cost of high-impact flying creatures. Supported by dense artifact acceleration and cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and the Medallion cycle, the deck ramps quickly into potent card-advantage engines including Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx. A robust Esper suite of efficient countermagic, spot removal, and asymmetric board wipes like Kindred Dominance keeps opposing threats in check while your board develops. Once established around Turn 4, the deck transitions into lethal aerial pressure on Turn 5, deploying game-ending threats like Magister Sphinx and Medomai the Ageless, or winning via Approach of the Second Sun. Built-in ward, hexproof, and protective spells like Teferi's Protection secure your board until combat damage closes the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to the Light Realms
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign