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Unesh Sphinxes
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Est deck cost: $383.28
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Commander

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Unesh or another Sphinx you control enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign (hou) 52

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Draw

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Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Creature
Arbiter of the Ideal (bng) 31
Atemsis, All-Seeing

Flying {2}{U}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Whenever Atemsis deals damage to an opponent, you may reveal your hand. If cards with at least six different mana values are revealed this way, that player loses the game.

Creature
Atemsis, All-Seeing (m20) 46
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Conundrum Sphinx

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, each player chooses a card name. Then each player reveals the top card of their library. If the card a player revealed has the name they chose, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, that player puts it on the bottom of their library.

Creature
Conundrum Sphinx (c18) 84
Curator of Destinies

This spell can't be countered. Flying When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Curator of Destinies (fdn) 34
Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (lcc) 305
Inspired Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have. {3}{U}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (lcc) 159
Marauding Sphinx

Flying, vigilance, ward {2} Whenever you commit a crime, surveil 2. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
Ormos, Archive Keeper

Flying If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos. {1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

Creature
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
Prognostic Sphinx

Flying Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it. Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

Creature
Prognostic Sphinx (dsc) 124
Serum Sovereign

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature. {U}, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.

Creature
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Sphinx of Clear Skies

Flying, ward {2} Domain — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.)

Creature
Sphinx of Clear Skies (dmu) 67
Sphinx of Enlightenment

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.

Creature
Sphinx of Enlightenment (j25) 364
Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep. Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

Creature
Sphinx of Foresight (rna) 55
Sphinx of Magosi

Flying {2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Sphinx of Magosi (cn2) 122
Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying When this creature enters, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316
Windreader Sphinx

Flying Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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Protection

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Sphinx of the Final Word

This spell can't be countered. Flying Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered.

Creature
Sphinx of the Final Word (ogw) 63

Protection

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Anthem

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Arcane Adaptation

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Arcane Adaptation (xln) 46
Door of Destinies

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on this artifact. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Door of Destinies (ltc) 277
Leyline of Transformation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Leyline of Transformation (dsk) 63

Anthem

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Finisher

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Goliath Sphinx

Flying

Creature
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99

Finisher

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Ramp

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Conspiracy Unraveler

Flying You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)

Creature
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (lcc) 304
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Master of Predicaments

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's mana value is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Master of Predicaments (m15) 67
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Progenitor's Icon

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: The next spell of the chosen type you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash.

Artifact
Progenitor's Icon (lcc) 100
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297

Ramp

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Land

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (dsc) 267
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 269
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (otj) 273
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (drc) 166
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260

Land

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Recursion

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Scholar of the Lost Trove

Flying When this creature enters, you may cast target instant, sorcery, or artifact card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 51

Recursion

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Copy

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Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

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Landfall

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Guardian of Tazeem

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. If that land is an Island, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78

Landfall

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Removal

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Admiral's Order

Raid — If you attacked this turn, you may pay {U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Admiral's Order (rix) 31
Alhammarret, High Arbiter

Flying As Alhammarret enters, each opponent reveals their hand. You choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way. Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).

Creature
Alhammarret, High Arbiter (ori) 43
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (drc) 74
Dream Eater

Flash Flying When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
Enigma Thief

Prowl {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Sphinx or Rogue.) Flying When this creature enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (ltc) 23
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (drc) 39
Riddlemaster Sphinx

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m19) 287
Unable to Scream

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a Toy artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/2 in addition to its other types. As long as enchanted creature is face down, it can't be turned face up.

Enchantment
Unable to Scream (dsk) 78
Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsummon (m20) 78
Urza's Rebuff

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Tap up to two target creatures.

Instant
Urza's Rebuff (bro) 71

Removal

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Creature

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Glyph Keeper

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability. Embalm {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Sphinx with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
Serra Sphinx

Flying, vigilance

Creature
Serra Sphinx (plst) 2XM-68
Sphinx of Jwar Isle

Flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) You may look at the top card of your library any time.

Creature
Sphinx of Jwar Isle (c18) 103
Stoic Sphinx

Flash Flying This creature has hexproof as long as you haven't cast a spell this turn.

Creature
Stoic Sphinx (otj) 71

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Mill

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Chancellor of the Spires

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards. Flying When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
Watcher of Hours

Flying, ward {3} Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1. Suspend 6—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with six time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Creature
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25

Mill

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Theft

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Dazzling Sphinx

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Dazzling Sphinx (otc) 93
Sphinx Ambassador

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player chooses a card name. If you searched for a creature card that doesn't have that name, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Creature
Sphinx Ambassador (m10) 73

Theft

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