Unesh by OleSmokestacks

Format: Commander

Commander: Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Helmed by Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, this is a mono-blue Sphinx-tribal value deck built around making Sphinx spells cheaper and converting every Sphinx entry into a Fact or Fiction-style card-advantage trigger. The deck aims to snowball by chaining Sphinxes: copy effects like Reflections of Littjara and Donal, Herald of Wings, plus trigger-doubling via Starfield Vocalist, multiply Unesh's ETB draw. Changelings such as Universal Automaton and Firdoch Core are extra Sphinxes for the discount and trigger. The deck wins through evasive flying combat, using Deepchannel Mentor, Archetype of Imagination, Rogue's Passage, and Whispersilk Cloak to push damage, while Windreader Sphinx and Starwinder turn attacks into more cards. High Tide and a dense artifact ramp package enable burst turns that deploy multiple Sphinxes at once. There are no infinite combos; victory comes from overwhelming incremental value.

Decklist (120 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Argent Sphinx
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Deepchannel Mentor
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Donal, Herald of Wings
  • 1 Drawn from Dreams
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 2 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glyph Keeper
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Gravitational Shift
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 34 Island
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Neutralize
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Robe of Mirrors
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Shapesharer
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thwart
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Wash Out
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Witness Protection