A Riddle of Sphinx - Unesh EDH

Commander / EDH* Control Mono-Blue Storm

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Creature (25)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Argent Sphinx
• 1x Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Dazzling Sphinx
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Enigma Thief
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Glyph Keeper
• 1x Guardian of Tazeem
• 1x Master of Predicaments
• 1x Master of Winds
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Rescuer Sphinx
• 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Sphinx of Enlightenment
• 1x Sphinx of Foresight
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Mystic Remora

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Kefnet's Monument
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (33)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 28x Island
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Rite of Replication

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Whirlwind Denial

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Back to Basics

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crystal Shard

Instant (1)

• 1x Chain of Vapor

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This deck aims to abuse unesh’s abilities to pump out sphinx cheaper and gain overwhelming card advantage and win with combat. This deck is meant for mid power level games.

Early game we are setting up our board by tutoring for mana rocks or cost reduction artifacts for ramp.

Cost reducer in addition to unesh: Urza's Incubator .
Kefnet's Monument . Sapphire Medallion .

Mid-game / winning.

Once we get some ramp going we can cast unesh to play our Sphinx cheaper as well as fill our hand. The goal is to set up Mind Over Matter + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx which will allow us to chain our Sphinx spells together to “storm off”. We can also use Dream Halls or Omniscience . From there we can win with combat or cast an extra turn spell to give our Sphinx haste in a sense and attack to win. When we cast all these Sphinx we will have a very large amount of cards in hand to protect our board with countermagic. This card advantage also allows us to successfully use Empyrial Plate as a win con with commander damage as it’s not uncommon to have 20 cards in our hand.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.71
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Glyph Keeper 5/3 W, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Potential EDH, Joke, Under 900