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Commander

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
Flying
Sphinx spells you cast cost
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.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign (hou) 52

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Land

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Cavern of Souls
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: 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
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (msh) 289
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (eoc) 169
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (msc) 254
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Shelldock Isle
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.
Land
Shelldock Isle (plst) LRW-272

Land

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Misc

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Coat of Arms
Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)
Artifact
Coat of Arms (plst) DDS-58
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 (msc) 198
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
Omen Machine
Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.
Artifact
Omen Machine (nph) 148
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 (drc) 135
Spellbook
You have no maximum hand size.
Artifact - Book
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (msc) 216
Venser's Journal
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Misc

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (msc) 191
Herald's Horn
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost
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 (msc) 287
High Tide
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Instant
High Tide (dmr) 286
Kefnet's Monument
Blue creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legendary Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
Mana Drain
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of
equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Omniscience
You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.
Enchantment
Omniscience (fdn) 161
Pillar of Origins
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.
Artifact
Pillar of Origins (cmm) 970
Sapphire Medallion
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211
The Water Crystal
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Artifact
The Water Crystal (fin) 85
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (msc) 222
Urza's Incubator
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (fic) 372

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Sphinxes (4 mana)

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Argent Sphinx
Flying
Metalcraft —
: Exile this creature. 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 - Sphinx
Argent Sphinx (mm2) 41
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 - Sphinx
Conundrum Sphinx (c18) 84
Curator of Mysteries
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Sphinx
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Master of Winds
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, you may have this creature's base power and toughness become 4/1 or 1/4 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Sphinx
Master of Winds (znr) 68
Rescuer Sphinx
Flying
As this creature enters, you may return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Sphinx
Rescuer Sphinx (clu) 95
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
Sphinx of Foresight (rna) 55
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
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 51
Stoic Sphinx
Flash
Flying
This creature has hexproof as long as you haven't cast a spell this turn.
Creature - Sphinx
Stoic Sphinx (otj) 71

Sphinxes (4 mana)

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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 - Sphinx
Dazzling Sphinx (otc) 93
Defiler of Dreams
Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
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 - Sphinx Phyrexian
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
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
(
, 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 - Sphinx
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
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 - Sphinx
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78
Jwar Isle Avenger
Surge
(You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Jwar Isle Avenger (plst) OGW-58
Marauding Sphinx
Flying, vigilance, ward

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 - Rogue Sphinx
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
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 - Sphinx
Master of Predicaments (m15) 67
Ominous Sphinx
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
Creature - Sphinx
Ominous Sphinx (hou) 41
Prognostic Sphinx
Flying
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.
Creature - Sphinx
Prognostic Sphinx (dsc) 124
Quantum Riddler
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead.
Warp
Creature - Sphinx
Quantum Riddler (eoe) 72
Serra Sphinx
Flying, vigilance
Creature - Sphinx
Serra Sphinx (plst) 2XM-68
Serum Sovereign
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Sphinx of Clear Skies
Flying, ward

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
Sphinx of Clear Skies (dmu) 67
Sphinx of Lost Truths
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Lost Truths (zen) 69

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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 - Sphinx
Arbiter of the Ideal (bng) 31
Atemsis, All-Seeing
Flying
,
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Atemsis, All-Seeing (m20) 46
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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 - Sphinx
Curator of Destinies (fdn) 34
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 - Nightmare Sphinx
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
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.)
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
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.
, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
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 - Sphinx
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m20) 317
Sphinx of Enlightenment
Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Enlightenment (j25) 364
Watcher of Hours
Flying, ward

Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1.
Suspend 6—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
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 - Sphinx
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25

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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 - Sphinx Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
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 - Sphinx Detective
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
Enigma Thief
Prowl
(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 - Rogue Sphinx
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Goliath Sphinx
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99
Inspired Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have.
: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Creature - Sphinx
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
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 - Sphinx
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
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
Sphinx Ambassador (m10) 73
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
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
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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Agency Outfitter
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your graveyard, hand and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Creature - Sphinx Detective
Agency Outfitter (mkm) 38
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).
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Alhammarret, High Arbiter (ori) 43
Belltower Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller mills that many cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Belltower Sphinx (jmp) 141
Cerulean Sphinx
Flying
: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library.
Creature - Sphinx
Cerulean Sphinx (rvr) 36
Citywatch Sphinx
Flying
When this creature dies, surveil 2. (Look at the top two 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 - Sphinx
Citywatch Sphinx (plst) GRN-33
Cloudreader Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Sphinx
Cloudreader Sphinx (plst) DOM-47
Deadeye Navigator
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "
: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."
Creature - Spirit
Deadeye Navigator (inr) 59
Horizon Scholar
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Sphinx
Horizon Scholar (cmr) 73
Sandstone Oracle
Flying
When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sandstone Oracle (cmm) 406
Sharding Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sharding Sphinx (moc) 235
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (msc) 215
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
Sphinx of Jwar Isle (c18) 103
Sphinx of Magosi
Flying
: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Magosi (w17) 12
Sphinx of the Chimes
Flying
Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Chimes (rtr) 52
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
Sphinx of the Final Word (fdn) 597
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
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
Twisted Riddlekeeper
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, tap up to two target permanents. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Flying
Creature - Sphinx Eldrazi
Twisted Riddlekeeper (mh3) 14
Vexing Sphinx
Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (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.)
When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.
Creature - Sphinx
Vexing Sphinx (dmr) 297
Warden of Evos Isle
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Warden of Evos Isle (j25) 385
Witness of Tomorrows
Flying
: Scry 1.
Creature Enchantment - Sphinx
Witness of Tomorrows (thb) 82

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