Art by Alexandre Honoré
Commander deckBUW
The Ur-Sphinx
Cast cost-reduced Sphinxes to trigger The Ur-Sphinx's combat ability, milling all players and casting the best milled spells for free while leveraging graveyard recursion.
Asked for“The Ur-sphinx from reality fracture commander precon, bracket 3 sphinx and mill / reanimator tribal”
Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 61 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1The Ur-Sphinx
6WUBLegendary Creature — Sphinx Avatar
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
11
Card Draw
9
Frantic Search
2UInstant
Free card filtering that puts reanimation targets in the graveyard
Sphinx of the Revelation
3WUArtifact Creature — Sphinx
Life gain and massive card advantage on a Sphinx body
Consecrated Sphinx
4UUCreature — Sphinx
Unrivaled continuous card draw on a premier Sphinx
Dream Eater
4UUCreature — Nightmare Sphinx
Surveils, bounces a threat, and triggers Sphinx synergies
Sphinx of Lost Truths
3UUCreature — Sphinx
Sphinx that draws three cards on entry
Removal
13
Erebos's Intervention
XBInstant
Flexible graveyard hate or creature removal with lifegain
Hero's Downfall
1BBInstant
Reliable instant removal for creatures or planeswalkers
Threats/Wincons
13
Magister Sphinx
4WUBArtifact Creature — Sphinx
Sets an opponent's life total directly to ten
Medomai the Ageless
4WULegendary Creature — Sphinx
Sphinx that provides extra turns on combat damage
Sphinx of the Steel Wind
5WUBArtifact Creature — Sphinx
Massive artifact Sphinx packed with combat keywords
Sharuum the Hegemon
3WUBLegendary Artifact Creature — Sphinx
Legendary Sphinx that reanimates artifact Sphinxes
Sphinx of Uthuun
5UUCreature — Sphinx
Fact or Fiction trigger on a flying Sphinx body
Enigma Sphinx
4WUBArtifact Creature — Sphinx
Cascades into free spells and recurs itself when killed
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
4UULegendary Creature — Sphinx
Reduces Sphinx costs and generates mini-Fact or Fictions on Sphinx entry
Master of Predicaments
3UUCreature — Sphinx
Sphinx that cheats cards into play on combat damage
Scholar of the Lost Trove
5UUCreature — Sphinx
Sphinx that casts instants, sorceries, or artifacts from your graveyard
Sphinx of the Second Sun
6UUCreature — Sphinx
Grants an additional beginning phase for extra untaps and draws
Vexing Sphinx
1UUCreature — Sphinx
Aggressively costed Sphinx that filters cards into the graveyard
Arbiter of the Ideal
4UUCreature — Sphinx
Sphinx that cheats permanents directly onto the battlefield
Archon of Cruelty
6BBCreature — Archon
High-impact reanimation target that drains and removes threats
Utility
15
Animate Dead
1BEnchantment — Aura
Cheap enchantment to bring back any milled creature
Maddening Cacophony
1USorcery
Mills opponents early or kicks to mill half their libraries
Court of Cunning
1UUEnchantment
Grants monarch and continuously mills ten cards per opponent
Breach the Multiverse
5BBSorcery
Mills ten cards from everyone and reanimates a creature or planeswalker from each
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
Punches opponents whenever creatures are milled or leave graveyards
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
Grants haste and shroud to ensure Sphinx attack triggers
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
Protects key Sphinxes and gives immediate haste
Rise of the Dark Realms
7BBSorcery
Game-ending spell reanimating all creatures from all graveyards
Bolas's Citadel
3BBBLegendary Artifact
Plays cards directly off the top of the library with life
Crucible of Worlds
3Artifact
Recurs lands milled by Sphinx attacks or mill spells
Entomb
BInstant
Tutors any bomb Sphinx directly into the graveyard for reanimation
