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Copy of - A Riddle of Sphinx
Deck Size: 100
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Commander

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign 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

Commander

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Instant

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Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Instant
Chain of Vapor (c16) 84
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (a25) 50
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (mma) 38
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rtr) 35
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (mh1) 52
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (ema) 49
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (avr) 57
High Tide

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

Instant
High Tide (fem) 18b
Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant
Long-Term Plans (scg) 38
Nexus of Fate

Take an extra turn after this one. If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Instant
Nexus of Fate (m19) 306
Pongify

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

Instant
Pongify (2xm) 62
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (gtc) 44
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 (frf) 46
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (eld) 331
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (ema) 219
Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (mrd) 159
Empyrial Plate

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Empyrial Plate (mrd) 168
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (2xm) 255
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (m13) 206
Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault. At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (3ed) 263
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (eld) 54
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (som) 179
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {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.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (kld) 226
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (c14) 266
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (cmr) 341
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pf19) 7
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346
Urza's Incubator

As Urza's Incubator enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (c15) 273

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Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (mma) 219
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (kld) 247
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bfz) 255
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary 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 (ths) 223
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1

Land

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Creature

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Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying Inspired — Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal 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
Argent Sphinx

Flying Metalcraft — {U}: Exile Argent Sphinx. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Argent Sphinx (mm2) 41
Atemsis, All-Seeing

Flying {2}{U}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Whenever Atemsis, All-Seeing 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
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 Chancellor of the Spires 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
Consecrated Sphinx

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

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (sld) 165
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (c20) 109
Dazzling Sphinx

Flying Whenever Dazzling Sphinx 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 (c21) 352
Dream Eater

Flash Flying When Dream Eater 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 (grn) 38
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur

Flying If you would scry a number of cards, draw that many cards instead. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
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 Enigma Thief enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 328Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 328
Master of Predicaments

Flying Whenever Master of Predicaments 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
Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type. Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (aer) 164
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, Archive Keeper. {1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

Creature
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (pnph) 42★
Prognostic Sphinx

Flying Discard a card: Prognostic Sphinx gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it. Whenever Prognostic Sphinx attacks, scry 3.

Creature
Prognostic Sphinx (e01) 26
Sandstone Oracle

Flying When Sandstone Oracle enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

Creature Artifact
Sandstone Oracle (cmr) 336
Sphinx Ambassador

Flying Whenever Sphinx Ambassador 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
Sphinx Mindbreaker

Flying When Sphinx Mindbreaker enters, each opponent mills ten cards.

Creature
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
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 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
Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying When Sphinx of Uthuun 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
Windreader Sphinx

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

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (jmp) 194

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Sorcery

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Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (ths) 46
Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Echo of Eons (mh1) 46
Flood of Tears

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Flood of Tears (m20) 59
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (zen) 61

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment
Back to Basics (uma) 46
Dream Halls

Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

Enchantment
Dream Halls (sth) 28
Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (emn) 65
Mind Over Matter

Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Mind Over Matter (exo) 40
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process. {5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (plst) ORI-76

Enchantment

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Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Foil (uma) 55
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 (cmr) 99
Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (nph) 164

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