Sharuum, The Sphinx's Riddle

Commander / EDH* Artifact Casual Control Infinite Combo Multiplayer WUB (Esper)

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Land (38)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 3x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 3x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Instant (21)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Catalog
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (15)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Sphinx Summoner
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Trinket Mage

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Time Sieve
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Universal Solvent
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Rout
• 1x Wrath of God

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Instant (5)

• 1x Catalog
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge

Creature (1)

• 1x Myr Battlesphere

Land (5)

• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sunken Hollow

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Unburial Rites

Artifact (1)

• 1x Azorius Signet

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My Sharuum deck. Had this one for 6+ years now. This deck sways really heavily between a heavily tuned artifact combo deck and a silly Sphinx theme deck, and manages to land somewhere in the middle as a fairly tuned (at least, tuned to my specifications) Control-Combo deck that's really fun to play.

The main combos in the deck are

Sharuum the Hegemon + Sculpting Steel/Phyrexian Metamorph + Altar of the Brood to make each opponent mill their deck off infinite ETB triggers.

Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve for infinite turns. This alternately works with Myr Battlesphere + Time Sieve + Sharuum, the Hegemon + Conjurer's Closet or Academy Ruins + Myr Battlesphere + Time Sieve

Academy Ruins + Mindslaver A lock if there's only one opponent left (or in 1v1, though the deck isn't tuned for 1v1 Commander.)

Mindslaver + Sharuum + Conjurer's Closet Mostly same as above, but sacrifices only having to be a two-card combo (with one of those being a land), with a lower mana-per turn cost.

Also of note are a few key interactions which grind you pretty solid advantage

Conjurer's Closet + Magister Sphinx . For when you really want all your opponents to hate you.

Spine of Ish Sah + Trading Post/Phyrexia's Core. 1 card or 1 life + the destruction of a permanent for 8 mana every turn, or as often as you need it.

Sharuum + Sphinx Summoner in the graveyard. 7 flying power plus a tutor for an artifact creature for 6 mana. For extra, you can have 10 flying power plus a tutor for an artifact creature for 9 mana and 2 life (or 10 mana) if you search up Phyrexian Metamorph with Summoner.

The rest of the deck is largely answers to questions. The deck honestly needs some more ways to draw cards, but it has a goodly amount of tutors. I'm not really sure what I'd include for card draw, though I'm definitely in the colors for it. Consecrated Sphinx is certainly a good start! The deck loves those old control staples, Board Wipe and Counterspells! It also helps our control/Sphinx strategy that most Sphinxes are large evasive creatures! It also helps that some of our Sphinxes are able to be reanimated via Sharuum, with the most notable of these being Magister Sphinx and the aformentioned Sphinx Summoner

The Trinket Mage Packet is currently mostly for ramp but there's also a copy of Universal Solvent which basically makes your Mage tutor for a vindicate. Altar of the Brood is your combo piece. It should be noted that Altar isn't really all that useful outside of the combo, so searching for it with Mage is a big red flashing neon sign that you're close to comboing off.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Academy Ruins + Mindslaver Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve Conjurer's Closet + Magister Sphinx Academy Ruins + Myr Battlesphere + Time Sieve
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Commander - Paper Decks