Sphinx by user7778141

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Esper midrange control deck built around Sphinx tribal synergies, asymmetric stax pieces, and explosive mana reduction. Led by The Ur-Sphinx, the deck benefits from an immediate Eminence cost reduction from the command zone, allowing it to accelerate expensive, high-impact flying creatures ahead of curve. The early turns focus on deploying 2-CMC mana rocks, cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Medallions, and disruptive stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate and Authority of the Consuls. By Turn 4, the deck deploys card engines such as Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Consecrated Sphinx, or The One Ring to bury opponents in card advantage. The primary path to victory involves deploying Magister Sphinx on Turn 5 to reduce opponent life totals to 10, executing lethal aerial combat with evasion and extra turns from Medomai the Ageless, or assembling an infinite mana combo using Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal to lock out the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign