Ur-Sphinx by user4742398

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 68

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and stax archetype commanded by The Ur-Sphinx. While the commander offers eminence cost reduction for Sphinx spells, the deck's primary route to victory is establishing an asymmetric lock using Solemnity and Decree of Silence. With Solemnity in play, Decree of Silence never accumulates depletion counters and automatically counters all opposing spells. The deck supports this game plan with dense countermagic, versatile spot removal, board sweepers, and defensive taxing enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda. If the primary lock is disrupted, mass graveyard recursion via Replenish and Dance of the Manse restores key permanents in a single turn. Backup lines include creating an indestructible 20/20 Marit Lage token with Dark Depths and Solemnity, or generating overwhelming card advantage through Consecrated Sphinx and Sphinx of the Second Sun to close out the game through combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Everglades
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fountain Watch
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Karoo
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Loyal Warhound
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 2 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign