The Ur-Sphinx: Meow by user8934899

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Esper commander deck focuses on Sphinx tribal synergy, heavy cost reduction, mill, and big-mana reanimation payoffs. Led by The Ur-Sphinx, the deck leverages an eminence ability that discounts all other Sphinx spells by 1 mana right from the command zone. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and tribal reducers such as Urza's Incubator and Watcher of the Spheres. By turn 5, the deck transitions into its card engine via Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or Kindred Discovery, rapidly filling the hand and graveyard on every creature deployment. The deck reaches a critical threat state on turn 6, attacking with high-power flying Sphinxes to trigger The Ur-Sphinx's mill and free-cast ability or resolving game-ending spells like Rise of the Dark Realms and Singularity Rupture. Defensive enchantments such as Propaganda and Ghostly Prison protect life totals while the flyer squadron eliminates opponents over successive turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chancellor of the Spires
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Watcher of the Spheres
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign