Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign | Blue Reanimator, Sphinx Tribal, Swooping | EDH/Commander Deck Tech

This Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign deck is a mono-blue reanimator deck with a Sphinx tribal bend. Take to the skies and call it the high road, lord over everyone with your insane amounts of "card draw", and enjoy your zombie sphinx army as it feasts upon your opponent's life. Unesh is a natural leader for this deck as he turns all of your sphinx cards (about 20 of them) into Fact or Fiction's, filling your graveyard and your hand up in equal measure.
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[@stoneshovel24]

From the creator of Simic aristocrats, it's a pleasure to introduce to you mono blue reanimator!

[@ericgoldman9260]

Unfortunately God-Pharaoh's Gift and Hour of Eternity don't work here. The token copies are 4/4 black Zombies, not Sphinxes.

[@suggiethames9870]

Damn, that opening narration gave me goosebumps. D&D always portrayed Criosphinxes as the losers of the sphinx world but you make them seem awesome

[@stoneshovel24]

Super cool idea!!

[@UncommonCommander]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@marcelofrmo]

This is the edh channel I have been searching all my life.

[@LessonSmith]

Great jank. I love it

[@gerthdax]

Great deck tech! This should defo have way more views! Your video was informative and nicely produced, easy to follow along and well explained imo. I stumbled upon it, coz I am trying to build a Cloudhoof Kirin, Spirit tribal, self mill, reanimator deck :D I know it sounds quite challanging, and indeed it is. But even though you've built a Sphinx tribal deck, I was still able to get some nice cards for consideration out of your video, so thanks for that! PS: If you have any suggestions or directions/pointers to send me off to, I would be glad, but no obligation here :)

[@oldbordergeek]

Love sphinx tribal every time i bring unesh people are like what the hell is that... i play the storm variant with the clones like sakashima etc

[@crovax1375]

With the color manipulation in this deck Escape Routes could also be useful in this deck. How would you build around Fae Offering, if you wanted to get the maximum activations out of it?

[@UncommonCommander]

Oh, I missed Escape Routes! That's a good idea. Fae Offering: I would build that card into either a simic deck (or at least a deck with both colors in it) with Leyline of Anticipation types of effects, or a Yeva, Nature's Herald's deck with a good amount of instants in it. There are a lot of instant speed combat tricks you could stuff into a Yeva deck, and I think that's the simplest way to go. In fact, I've been meaning to build a Yeva deck. Maybe I'll do that for this channel in the future, and stick Fae Offering in it. The difficult part of building around Fae Offering is actually finding it consistently. Might not be a bad idea to add white and just make a bant deck, so you get access to white's tutors. Black would work for that, too. I could see a case for making a pretty cool instant speed Yarok deck.

[@UncommonCommander]

Just noticed that Jorn, God of Winter would be decent for this, too.

[@crovax1375]

@@UncommonCommander I hadn't considered Jorn yet and I have opened one in my Kaldhiem packs. Thanks for the tip on that! Also I was going to type "Yorn jet" but I wasn't sure if would have been funny or just confusing

[@UncommonCommander]

@@crovax1375 It would have been both! :)

[@mill2250]

when truth itself is so malleable, where is the need to even lie?

[@mill2250]

...wait, no shapeshifters?

[@johanandersson8252]

Please can you do the Pink Marshmallow (The Unspeakable). I’m right now trying building it and need some help.

[@UncommonCommander]

Interesting that you ask, as that creature is one of the 99 in one of the next videos I'll be making. I'll consider building it as the commander in the future, I've got a few requests so I'm getting to them as I'm able.

[@GenyaArikado]

My Unesh deck is better