Sphinxs rises by user3609599

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Esper Sphinx typal deck focuses on casting massive, evasive flying creatures ahead of curve. It uses the passive Eminence ability of The Ur-Sphinx alongside 2-mana mana rocks and dedicated tribal cost reducers like Urza's Incubator and Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign to deploy heavy flyers early. Once established on turn 4, the deck draws massive amounts of cards through Unesh's Fact or Fiction triggers, Kindred Discovery, and cantripping spells like Sphinx's Approach. Critical onset occurs around turn 6, where the deck overwhelms the table with large flying threats, one-sided board wipes like Raise the Palisade, and burst damage from Magister Sphinx. The deck protects its board state with efficient counterspells and mass blink effects, relying on combat damage to eliminate opponents by turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of New Prahv
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 7 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign