Sphinxes From the Crypt

Esper Sphinx tribal reanimator. This deck is white-blue-black and wants to cheat big Sphinxes into play, then overwhelm the table with evasive fliers, card advantage, and powerful ETB effects.

Its core plan is to fill the graveyard with cards like Entomb, Buried Alive, Careful Study, Frantic Search, Windfall, and Faithful Mending, then bring back threats with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Persist, Victimize, Unburial Rites, and Living Death. The tribal package—Unesh, Kindred Discovery, Herald’s Horn, and Urza’s Incubator—makes the Sphinx plan smoother by reducing costs and drawing lots of cards.

It wins by sticking high-impact Sphinxes such as Sphinx of the Steel Wind, Magister Sphinx, Chancellor of the Spires, Consecrated Sphinx, and Sharuum the Hegemon, then snowballing through combat and value. Tivit, Dream Trawler, Medomai, and The Ur-Sphinx add more pressure, while strong