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Commander
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Commander
Size: 100Salt sum: 42.71
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Commander
Clara Oswald
Impossible Girl — If Clara Oswald is your commander, choose a color before the game begins. Clara Oswald is the chosen color.
If a triggered ability of a Doctor you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
If a triggered ability of a Doctor you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
The Seventh Doctor
Whenever The Seventh Doctor attacks, choose a card in your hand. Defending player guesses whether that card's mana value is greater than the number of artifacts you control. If they guessed wrong, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't cast a spell this way, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legendary Creature - Doctor Time Lord
Commander
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Copy
The Clone Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Surveil 3.
II — When you next cast a creature spell this turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary.
III — Choose a card name. Whenever a creature with the chosen name deals combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card.
I — Surveil 3.
II — When you next cast a creature spell this turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary.
III — Choose a card name. Whenever a creature with the chosen name deals combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card.
Enchantment - Saga
Copy
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Draw
Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
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.
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
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.
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
Enigma Sphinx
Flying
When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Ethersworn Sphinx
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Pact Weapon
As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.
Artifact - Equipment
Raffine, Scheming Seer
Flying, ward
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Sphinx
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.
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
Draw
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Evasion
The Eleventh Doctor
I. AM. TALKING! — Whenever The Eleventh Doctor deals combat damage to a player, you may exile a card from your hand with a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend.
: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Doctor Time Lord
Evasion
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Finisher
Finisher
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Land
Land
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Protection
Protection
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Ramp
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.
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
Sarevok's Tome
When this artifact enters, you take the initiative.
: Add . If you have the initiative, add instead.
, : Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.
: Add . If you have the initiative, add instead.
, : Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.
Artifact - Book
Ramp
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Recursion
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.)
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
Recursion
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Removal
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.
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
Removal
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Theft
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.
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
Inevitable Betrayal
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with three 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.)
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Sorcery
Theft
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Tutor
Isperia the Inscrutable
Flying
Whenever Isperia deals combat damage to a player, choose a card name. That player reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever Isperia deals combat damage to a player, choose a card name. That player reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Tutor
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Would you like to play a game?\n\nThis deck wants to play a number of games, which makes it fun for the whole table. Every time I’ve played it has led to a memorable moment, and I think that’s the deck’s greatest strength. Here's an upgraded version.\n\nThis is a sphinx kindred deck. Sphynxes are often expensive (mana value), and many of them come with riddle-like minigames attached to their ability and/or contain some reference to riddles in their name. The Seventh Doctor and Clara Oswald synergize with the sphinxes by providing two opportunities to cheat them out each turn, and to do so thematically in a manner that mirrors the riddle of the sphinx. Another synergy between the doctor and sphinx sub-type is that many of the latter are artifact creatures, which count towards the doctor’s ability, making his minigame more challenging.\n\nThere are multiple ways to win. My favourite is cheating out Magister Sphinx and then hitting it with Saw in Half, dropping everyone else to 10. Ideally, you then finish the job with Bolas’s Citadel, but the finisher is still a pipe dream for me. Most sphinxes are beefy flyers, making them a win-con in their own right. Medomai the Ageless gives extra-turns; Inevitable Betrayal is a cheeky way of stealing the best creature from an opponent’s deck; and there are a few one-sided board wipes to take control of the game. There are also alternative ways of avoiding mana cost, like the aforementioned Bolas’s Citadel, Omniscience, and Defiler of Dreams\n\nAnother really fun interaction is playing The Clone Saga on the turn before The Seventh Doctor, giving 4 minigame triggers on the next turn (after you play Clara Oswald and attack). There are a bunch of mana rocks that will hopefully enable this to pop-off before turn six. Given the minigame subtheme of the deck, I’ve stocked it with as many other minigames to compliment those attached to the sphinxes, including Fact or Fiction effects, the Monarch, and Initiative. \n\nOne of my favourite cards in the deck is Reverse the Polarity. It’s my generic target for Waterlogged Teachings if I’m not tutoring Saw in Half. Beyond the Dr. Who flavour, every mode of the spell is useful. If someone is storming off, it counters everything on the stack. It can surprise someone who lets the partner commanders through expecting five damage, giving them a combined power of 12. Or it can make your creatures unblockable, enabling the doctor to swing freely while clearing a path for the sphinxes. \n"}]}