sphinx by user3916734

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

The Ur-Sphinx helms an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange deck that combines mana reduction, sturdy flying beaters, and powerful card advantage engines. From the command zone, The Ur-Sphinx provides an Eminence discount of {1} to all Sphinx spells. Paired with low-mana ramp artifacts and flying cost reducers like Watcher of the Spheres and Herald's Horn, the deck consistently deploys 4-to-6 mana Sphinxes ahead of curve. Mid-game anchors such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Consecrated Sphinx flood the hand with resources, while defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Dissipation Field deter opposing aggression. The deck closes games through an overwhelming aerial assault of 4/4 to 6/6 flying creatures, accelerated by life-setting triggers from Magister Sphinx, extra turns from Medomai the Ageless, or asymmetric sweepers like Kindred Dominance. With high threat redundancy and built-in ward and hexproof, the deck steadily outvalues opponents and grinds out decisive combat victories.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Call to the Kindred
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Conundrum Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Momo, Friendly Flier
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign