sfinge by user7751842

Format: Commander

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper kindred strategy centered on The Ur-Sphinx, leveraging eminence to reduce the mana cost of all Sphinx spells from the very start of the game. The primary game plan accelerates into Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, which acts as the core engine by further reducing costs and generating repeated Fact or Fiction triggers on every Sphinx that enters the battlefield. The deck supports this core through multiple cheat avenues, including efficient reanimation spells like Reanimate and Victimize, as well as token-targeting spells like Polymorph and Mass Polymorph. Once assembled around Turn 4 or 5, the deck chains high-impact flyers such as Magister Sphinx, Sphinx of the Second Sun, and Medomai the Ageless. It protects this board state with premier defensive spells like Teferi's Protection and Flare of Fortitude, quickly overwhelming opponents through devastating combat swings, massive card advantage, and extra turn triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign