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The Ur-Sphinx
Eminence — As long as The Ur-Sphinx is in the command zone or on the battlefield, other Sphinx spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Flying
Whenever one or more Sphinxes you control attack, each player mills that many cards. For each player, you may cast a card that player milled this way without paying its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Avatar Sphinx
The Ur-Sphinx (frc) 12

Commander

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Palantír of Orthanc
At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
Legendary Artifact
Palantír of Orthanc (ltr) 247
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
,
: Scry 2.
Whenever you scry or surveil, look at the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Do this only once each turn. (Look at the card after you scry or surveil.)
Legendary Artifact
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong (tla) 259
Primal Amulet
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.
Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Progenitor's Icon
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
: Add one mana of any color.
: 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
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (pz1) 131
Twinning Glass
,
: You may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost if it has the same name as a spell that was cast this turn.
Artifact
Twinning Glass (lrw) 264
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

Artifact

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Azor, the Lawbringer
Flying
When Azor enters, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay
. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
Denzilore Fatehold
Flash
Flying
Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Elder Sphinx
Denzilore Fatehold (fra) 408
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
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.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Isperia the Inscrutable (dis) 114
Isperia, Supreme Judge
Flying
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Isperia, Supreme Judge (c20) 217
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
Medomai the Ageless
Flying
Whenever Medomai deals combat damage to a player, take an extra turn after this one.
Medomai can't attack during extra turns.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Medomai the Ageless (ths) 196
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
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.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Sphinx
Raffine, Scheming Seer (snc) 213
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
Sphinx of False Conclusions
Flash
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
When this creature dies, if it isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of it.
Creature - Illusion Sphinx
Sphinx of False Conclusions (fra) 338
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 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
Sphinx Summoner
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx Summoner (2xm) 220
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Flying, ward

Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10
Uldaros Theorix
Flying
When Uldaros Theorix enters, if you cast him, exile up to one target nonland card of each card type from your graveyard. Copy those cards. You may cast any number of spells with total mana value 6 or less from among the copies without paying their mana costs. (Permanent spells cast this way become tokens.)
Legendary Creature - Elder Sphinx
Uldaros Theorix (fra) 411
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
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
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Flying, vigilance, menace
Whenever Yennett attacks, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if its mana value is odd. If you don't cast it, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign (cmm) 363

Creature

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Champions from Beyond
When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 colorless Hero creature tokens.
Light Party — Whenever you attack with four or more creatures, scry 2, then draw a card.
Full Party — Whenever you attack with eight or more creatures, those creatures get +4/+4 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Champions from Beyond (fic) 11
Eyes of the Watcher
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay
. If you do, 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.)
Enchantment
Eyes of the Watcher (5dn) 30
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.
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (plst) ORI-76

Enchantment

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And They Shall Know No Fear
Choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
And They Shall Know No Fear (40k) 9
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (frc) 30
Psychic Spiral
Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player mills that many cards.
Instant
Psychic Spiral (rtr) 47
Sphinx's Approach
Draw two cards. Then you may exile this spell and four cards named Sphinx's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Sphinx creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
A deck can have any number of cards named Sphinx's Approach.
Instant
Sphinx's Approach (fra) 41

Instant

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Choked Estuary
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (msc) 229
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 235
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deserted Beach (fra) 176
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (msc) 239
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (msc) 240
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (frc) 72
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (frc) 73
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (trk) 285
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (trk) 286
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 319
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (soc) 382
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Meticulous Archive
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Island
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (trk) 317
Port Town
As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Port Town (msc) 256
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (msc) 257
Raffine's Tower
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Swamp
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (sos) 260
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (fra) 401
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (msc) 271
Sunken Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sunken Ruins (frc) 86
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 321
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Temple of Enlightenment
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Enlightenment (eoc) 186
Temple of Silence
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Silence (soc) 415
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (trk) 306

Land

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Bond of Insight
Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.
Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
Gift of Estates
If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Gift of Estates (plst) C14-73
Haunting Voyage
Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (ecc) 75
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283
Secret Salvage
Exile target nonland card from your graveyard. Search your library for any number of cards with the same name as that card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Secret Salvage (aer) 71
Sphinx's Decree
Each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Sorcery
Sphinx's Decree (rix) 24
Supreme Verdict
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211

Sorcery

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Approach of the Second Sun
If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.
Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4
Archive Arbiter
Flying
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent.
• You gain 4 life.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Archive Arbiter (fra) 167
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
Cemetery Tampering
Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (dsc) 135
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
Charmed Pendant
, Mill a card: For each colored mana symbol in the milled card's mana cost, add one mana of that color. (Activate only as an instant. For example, if the card's mana cost is
, you add
.)
Artifact
Charmed Pendant (ody) 298
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
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
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
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (frc) 50
Dream Trawler
Flying, lifelink
Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card.
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Creature - Sphinx
Dream Trawler (thb) 214
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.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Enigma Sphinx (c18) 178
Expropriate
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.
Sorcery
Expropriate (plst) CN2-30
Eyes Everywhere
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
: Exchange control of this enchantment and target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.
Enchantment
Eyes Everywhere (rvr) 43
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 (lcc) 304
Jace's Erasure
Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.
Enchantment
Jace's Erasure (m12) 60
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (msc) 156
Kindred Judgment
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Judgment (fra) 13
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
Psychosis Crawler
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Psychosis Crawler (blc) 282
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
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (fic) 282
Spellweaver Helix
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile two target sorcery cards from a single graveyard.
Whenever a player casts a card, if it has the same name as one of the cards exiled with this artifact, you may copy the other. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Artifact
Spellweaver Helix (mrd) 247
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
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 Sovereign
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if this creature is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx Sovereign (ala) 196
Sphinx's Insight
Draw two cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, you gain 2 life.
Instant
Sphinx's Insight (rna) 209
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (frc) 37
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
Thrumming Stone
Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
Legendary Artifact
Thrumming Stone (2x2) 315
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (fic) 331
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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22 pips - 17 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
81 pips - 47 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
15 pips - 11 cards
28 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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