UneshSphinxtribal

Format: Commander

Commander: Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This mono-blue deck revolves around Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, transforming high-cost Sphinxes into undercosted card-advantage engines. The deck spends early turns developing mana with rocks like Arcane Signet, Herald's Horn, and Worn Powerstone. Once Unesh enters on Turn 5, it discounts all Sphinxes by two generic mana and triggers a mini-Fact or Fiction ability whenever a Sphinx enters the battlefield. This allows the pilot to churn through the library rapidly, finding additional Sphinxes, flicker spells like Ghostly Flicker, and mass bounce effects like Spectral Deluge. The game is closed through overwhelming aerial combat, backed by utility powerhouses like Sphinx of the Second Sun and Defiler of Dreams, or an alternate kill with Atemsis, All-Seeing. While resilient against spot removal thanks to blinks and countermagic, the deck requires careful management of board sweepers before its flying army completes the table elimination on Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
• 1 Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Argent Sphinx
• 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1 Call to the Kindred
• 1 Captivating Glance
• 1 Castle Vantress
• 1 Chancellor of the Spires
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
• 1 Conundrum Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Delay
• 1 Disallow
• 1 Displace
• 1 Donal, Herald of Wings
• 1 Dream Eater
• 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
• 1 Engulf the Shore
• 1 Enigma Thief
• 1 Essence Flux
• 1 Extraplanar Lens
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Flow of Knowledge
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Guardian of Tazeem
• 1 Halimar Depths
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 High Tide
• 1 Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1 Inspired Sphinx
• 30 Island
• 1 Kefnet's Monument
• 1 Leyline of Anticipation
• 1 Master of Predicaments
• 1 Midnight Clock
• 1 Mystic Reflection
• 1 Ormos, Archive Keeper
• 1 Prognostic Sphinx
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1 Serum Sovereign
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Spectral Deluge
• 1 Sphinx Ambassador
• 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
• 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
• 1 Sphinx of Foresight
• 1 Sphinx of Magosi
• 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1 Terrain Generator
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1 Warden of Evos Isle
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Worn Powerstone