The Ur-Sphinx by user9243611

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. The commander provides permanent eminence cost reduction from the command zone, allowing expensive, high-impact flyers to enter ahead of curve. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana artifacts and defensive enchantments like Blind Obedience and Propaganda to slow aggressive opponents. On Turn 4, the deck establishes its resource engine through Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, or Consecrated Sphinx. The midgame applies immense combat pressure by casting game-altering threats such as Magister Sphinx, Medomai the Ageless, and Sphinx of the Second Sun. Once The Ur-Sphinx lands, every attack triggers mass milling and free spells from all players' graveyards. While the deck lacks instant-speed combo finishes and remains vulnerable to board wipes, its massive card draw, resilient flyer stats, and steady recursion allow it to dominate long multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign