I Sphinx You'll Find That's Mine

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

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Creature (26)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Dazzling Sphinx
• 1x Defiler of Dreams
• 1x Floodgate
• 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 Soul Seizer  ^Flip
• 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 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1x Vanguard Suppressor
• 1x Warden of Evos Isle
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Instant (4)

• 1x Aura Graft
• 1x Deluge
• 1x Fumble
• 1x High Tide

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Mirror Mage

Enchantment (20)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x As Foretold
• 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 Domestication
• 1x Dream Leash
• 1x Enthralling Hold
• 1x Eyes Everywhere
• 1x Illusory Gains
• 1x Mind Control
• 1x Netherese Puzzle-Ward
• 1x Persuasion
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Volition Reins
• 1x Wizard Class

Artifact (10)

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

Commanders (2)

Land (35)

• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 30x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Invoke the Winds
• 1x Rite of Replication

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Behold the Unspeakable  ^Flip
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Legacy's Allure
• 1x Steal Artifact

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Foresee
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Tamiyo's Epiphany

Artifact (2)

• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Hand of Vecna

Creature (3)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Windrider Patrol

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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.

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Date added	2 months
Last updated	1 month
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.26
Tokens	Copy Clone, Vanguard Suppressor
Folders	Commander Decks, Bookmarked CMDR, Potential Commander Decks, Uncategorized, Decks to Play, new decks