Riddle of the Sphinx

Commander / EDH* Artifact Infinite Combo WUB (Esper)

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Land (31)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x High Market
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 6x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (21)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Time Sieve

Creature (16)

• 1x Alloy Myr
• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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The Strategy

This deck wins two different ways: copying Sharuum the Hegemon infinite times or creating infinite Thopters with Thopter Foundry+Sword of the Meek+ and a colorless sac outlet. Here’s how you make infinite copies of Sharuum:

1. Get Sculpting Steel or Phyrexian Metamorph in the graveyard with Final Parting, Buried Alive or Entomb.
2. Tutor for Altar of the Brood or Disciple of the Vault. There are many ways to accomplish this. Make sure one of these is on the battlefield before you play your commander.
3. Play Sharuum the Hegemon targeting Sculpting Steel or Metamorph. This enters as a copy of Hegemon, forcing you to sac the original Hegemon. The copy of Hegemon targets the one in your graveyard. That Hegemon returns, forcing you to sac the original one. Ta-da, you created infinite copies of Sharuum. With Altar of the Brood or Disciple of the Vault you’ll kill all of your opponents simultaneously. You can find people online who describe this in better detail than I do.

This deck is for you if:

• You want to win by turn 5 or 6
• You play in a powerful meta
• You don’t want to interact with your opponent’s board
• You don’t mind getting hosed by a well-timed Bojuka Bog

This deck is not for you if:

• You play in a casual meta
• You want to win quickly or drag out games
• Your meta has a lot of graveyard hate

Bad Match Ups

You'll have difficulty playing against graveyard hate, fast aggro strategies and cards that prevent you from tutoring.

Budget Cuts

You can play with the land base to cut out a lot of the costs. The Thopter Foundry combo is a bit pricey monetary wise, and that can be easily replaced with other combos.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Myr 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure
Folders	Current Decks