I Sphinx You'll Find That's Mine

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Control Flying Mono-Blue Scry Sphinx

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Creature (25)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Dazzling Sphinx
• 1x Defiler of Dreams
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Iymrith, Desert Doom
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Master of Predicaments
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Serum Sovereign
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Sphinx of Enlightenment
• 1x Sphinx of Foresight
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Sturmgeist
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1x Vanguard Suppressor
• 1x Warden of Evos Isle
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Arcane Heist
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Inevitable Betrayal
• 1x Invoke the Winds
• 1x Mystic Speculation

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Mirror Mage

Enchantment (21)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Become the Pilot
• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Curse of Unbinding
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Eyes Everywhere
• 1x Illusory Gains
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Kitnap
• 1x Mind Control
• 1x Netherese Puzzle-Ward
• 1x Persuasion
• 1x Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Steal Artifact
• 1x Volition Reins

Land (35)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 28x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Terrain Generator

Instant (1)

• 1x High Tide

Commanders (2)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Seer's Lantern
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Venser's Journal

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Having put lots of multi-coloured decks together I finally wanted to make a mono-colour EDH deck. As I like building non-conventional decks the archetypal artifact or counter spell decks that you would normally associate with blue didn't really appeal and neither did a deck with an abrupt win condition e.g. Triskaidekaphile or Laboratory Maniac.

As such this tribal Sphinx deck aims to win by gaining control of opponent's key cards, simultaneously disrupting their play (not just by preventing the spells being played, as no one likes that) whilst giving me different possibilities of win conditions. As decks mostly have multiple ways of winning and with multiple opponents, card draw is a significant part of the rest of the deck provided by the Sphinx, turning scry into draw and thus keeping the gain control spells coming. The fact they are all flying and have decent amounts of attack/defence also helps but wouldn't stand up to big hitting decks which is where the gain control would help in this scenario.

Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #11 position in Commander / EDH 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Blue 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	3 weeks
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.28
Tokens	Copy Clone, Vanguard Suppressor
Folders	Commander Decks, Bookmarked CMDR, Potential Commander Decks, Decks to Play, new decks