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Commander

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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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Artifact

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (frc) 20
Archaeomancer's Map
When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (soc) 136
Azorius Signet
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Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Dimir Signet
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Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (clb) 860
Gathering Stone
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
When this artifact enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.
Artifact
Gathering Stone (ecl) 257
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
Orzhov Signet
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Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Sol Ring
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Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
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: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (msc) 219
Talisman of Hierarchy
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: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (soc) 358
Talisman of Progress
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: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (msc) 221
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
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Artifact
Thought Vessel (msc) 222

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Creature

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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
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
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) 128
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
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
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
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.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Ethersworn Sphinx (mh2) 195
Geode Golem
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Geode Golem (cmm) 386
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
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
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
Sharuum the Hegemon
Flying
When Sharuum enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sharuum the Hegemon (2xm) 219
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 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) 40
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 Chimes
Flying
Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Chimes (rtr) 52
Stormscape Familiar
Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Bird
Stormscape Familiar (pls) 36
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) 159
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
Warden of Evos Isle
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Warden of Evos Isle (cmr) 106
Watcher of the Spheres
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227
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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Enchantment

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Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (tle) 160
Monologue Tax
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.
Enchantment
Monologue Tax (msc) 139
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 (tdc) 164
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 (ori) 76

Enchantment

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Instant

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Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (msc) 147
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Fact or Fiction
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.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (frc) 41
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tle) 159
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
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 (soc) 198
Sauron's Ransom
Choose an opponent. They look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. The Ring tempts you.
Instant
Sauron's Ransom (ltr) 225
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
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (plst) RVR-228
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (frc) 37

Instant

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Land

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Ash Barrens
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Basic landcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Land
Ash Barrens (tmc) 60
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
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or
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Land
Deserted Beach (fra) 176
Dismal Backwater
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
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Land
Dismal Backwater (tdm) 254
Floodfarm Verge
: Add
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: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.
Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Gloomlake Verge
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: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Godless Shrine
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (eoe) 254
Hallowed Fountain
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (trk) 286
Island
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Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 319
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
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or
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Land
Isolated Chapel (frc) 74
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 (frc) 77
Plains
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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.
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or
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Land
Port Town (msc) 256
Raffine's Tower
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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
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Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
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Land
Shipwreck Marsh (fra) 189
Swamp
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Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 321
Watery Grave
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (trk) 306

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Sorcery

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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
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (msc) 156

Sorcery

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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
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
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
Crib Swap
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.
Instant Kindred - Shapeshifter
Crib Swap (ecl) 11
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
Favorable Winds
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Favorable Winds (gnt) 21
God-Pharaoh's Gift
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. It gains haste until end of turn.
Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Gift (drc) 131
Gravitational Shift
Creatures with flying get +2/+0.
Creatures without flying get -2/-0.
Enchantment
Gravitational Shift (roe) 69
Heartless Summoning
Creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.
Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (inr) 117
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
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
Midnight Clock
: Add
.
: Put an hour counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.
Artifact
Midnight Clock (otc) 100
Patriarch's Bidding
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
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 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
Sphinx's Decree
Each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Sorcery
Sphinx's Decree (rix) 24
Stinging Study
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.
Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
Thirst for Discovery
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.
Instant
Thirst for Discovery (vow) 85
Twilight's Call
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay
more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Twilight's Call (ddj) 76
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
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) 73
Virtue of Knowledge
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 76
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230
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 (hoc) 211
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (jmp) 194

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 16 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
67 pips - 43 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
14 pips - 11 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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