The Ur-sphinx main

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Ur-Sphinx commands an Esper flying tribal deck focused on high-impact Sphinx creatures and relentless aerial pressure. From the command zone, the commander provides a passive eminence cost reduction that accelerates expensive flyers into play ahead of curve. Early turns focus on mana rocks and cost reducers like Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Herald's Horn to establish massive card advantage engines. The mid-game deploys disruptive, evasive threats that control combat and generate value. The deck finishes games by overwhelming opponents through flying combat damage enhanced by True Conviction, life-total manipulation from Magister Sphinx, chaining extra turns with Medomai the Ageless, or casting stolen spells via The Ur-Sphinx.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
• 1 Conundrum Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crib Swap
• 1 Curator of Destinies
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dream Eater
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elenda and Azor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Firdoch Core
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Glyph Keeper
• 1 Guardian of Tazeem
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 13 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Isperia the Inscrutable
• 1 Kaya the Inexorable
• 1 Kefnet's Monument
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lofty Denial
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Master of Predicaments
• 1 Medomai the Ageless
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Negate
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 6 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Rooftop Percher
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Sharding Sphinx
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx Summoner
• 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
• 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Stoic Sphinx
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
• 1 True Conviction
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Vexing Sphinx
• 1 Warden of Evos Isle
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Winged Words
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign