How it has actually done
Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Bracket 2 — Core
A floor, not a verdict — read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
Running 4 stax pieces — what stax means.
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count; see the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot — 6 slots are outside their band, 3 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 4 | 37 | 33 short |
| Ramp | 8 | 10 | On target |
| Card advantage | 14 | 10 | 4 over |
| Spot removal | 4 | 8 | 4 short |
| Board wipes | 0 | 3 | 3 short |
| Creatures | 45 | 28 | 17 over |
| Recursion | 6 | 3 | 3 over |
| Protection | 3 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 1 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 8 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 4 | — | No target |
| Instants | 2 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 2 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 1 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 5 | — | No target |
| Stax pieces | 4 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 4.59 across 58 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 4
- 2 6
- 3 7
- 4 10
- 5 11
- 6 11
- 7+ 9
The decklist
62 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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- 1 Amoeboid Changeling
- 1 Avian Changeling
- 1 Cloudreader Sphinx
- 1 Conundrum Sphinx
- 1 Curator of Destinies
- 1 Dazzling Sphinx
- 1 Horizon Scholar
- 1 Master of Predicaments
- 1 Medomai the Ageless
- 1 Mistwalker
- 1 Sphinx Ambassador
- 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
- 1 Sphinx of Foresight
- 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
- 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
- 1 Sphinx Sovereign
- 1 Watcher of Hours
Card Advantage 13
Ramp 7
Recursion 6
Spot Removal 4
Protection 2
Stax 2
Enchantment 1
Counterspell 1
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Commander 1 The Ur-Sphinx Deck 1 Amoeboid Changeling 1 Apprentice Necromancer 1 Arcane Signet 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing 1 Aura of Silence 1 Authority of the Consuls 1 Avian Changeling 1 Azor, the Lawbringer 1 Beacon of Unrest 1 Breath of Life 1 Cairn Wanderer 1 Chancellor of the Spires 1 Cloudreader Sphinx 1 Command Tower 1 Conundrum Sphinx 1 Curator of Destinies 1 Dazzling Sphinx 1 Defiler of Dreams 1 Dream Eater 1 Dream Trawler 1 Elenda and Azor 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Fabled Passage 1 Ghostly Prison 1 Herald's Horn 1 Horizon Scholar 1 Inspired Sphinx 1 Irregular Cohort 1 Isolated Chapel 1 Isperia the Inscrutable 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge 1 Maskwood Nexus 1 Master of Predicaments 1 Master of Winds 1 Medomai the Ageless 1 Mistwalker 1 Orvar, the All-Form 1 Path to Exile 1 Prognostic Sphinx 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer 1 Sapphire Medallion 1 Sol Ring 1 Sphinx Ambassador 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies 1 Sphinx of Foresight 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind 1 Sphinx of Uthuun 1 Sphinx Sovereign 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Unsettled Mariner 1 Warden of Evos Isle 1 Watcher of Hours 1 Watcher of the Spheres 1 Whip of Erebos 1 Windborn Muse 1 Windreader Sphinx 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
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