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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) 97

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Creature

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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) 349
Stoic Sphinx
Flash
Flying
This creature has hexproof as long as you haven't cast a spell this turn.
Creature - Sphinx
Stoic Sphinx (potj) 71p

Creature

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Cycling

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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 (c20) 109

Cycling

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Draw

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Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (msc) 155
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 (cmd) 42
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 (pdmu) 46p
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) 364
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
Silundi Vision
Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
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 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 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
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228
The Everflowing Well
When The Everflowing Well enters, mill two cards, then draw two cards.
Descend 8 — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, transform The Everflowing Well.
Legendary Artifact
The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56
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 (phou) 52s
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
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (jmp) 194
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

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Finisher

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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

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Ancient Den
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Ancient Den (eoc) 148
Arcane Sanctum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Arcane Sanctum (cm2) 234
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (c17) 238
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eld) 333
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (m10) 224
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (dmc) 209
Fetid Pools
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp
Fetid Pools (drc) 156
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (msc) 248
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (msc) 251
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (eoe) 270
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (ons) 320
Midgar, City of Mako
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid (fin) 286
Mistvault Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (mh2) 249
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 (plst) C17-56
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (ecl) 269
Razortide Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (pip) 281
Remote Isle
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Remote Isle (c20) 302
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (plst) C17-272
Seat of the Synod
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (c16) 323
Spire of Industry
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.
Land
Spire of Industry (drc) 172
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ecl) 271
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 (pthb) 246p
Unclaimed Territory
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.
Land
Unclaimed Territory (msc) 275
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (bro) 267

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Mill

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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
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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Protection

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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

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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 (c21) 234
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 (fic) 230
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (dsc) 240
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) 341
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
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
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (gpt) 155
Sonic Screwdriver
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Untap another target artifact.
,
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Sonic Screwdriver (who) 186
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mrd) 253
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (mkc) 243
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

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Recursion

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (ema) 78
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 (uma) 110
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (jmp) 271
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 (brc) 128
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
The Grim Captain's Locker
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Legendary Artifact
The Grim Captain's Locker (lcc) 82

Recursion

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 464
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (pip) 473
Condescend
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. 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.)
Instant
Condescend (dd2) 28
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (c20) 209
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
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
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Jwari Disruption
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (msc) 156
Ondu Inversion
Destroy all nonland permanents.
Sorcery
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (pznr) 30sOndu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (pznr) 30s
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 (md1) 3
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (plc) 44
Raise the Palisade
Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (msc) 278
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

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Theft

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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

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Tutor

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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
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 (c16) 223
Waterlogged Teachings
Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

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Maybeboard

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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 (otc) 89
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 (pthb) 214p
Elenda and Azor
Flying, ward

Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay
. If you do, draw X cards.
At the beginning of each end step, you may pay 4 life. If you do, create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.
Legendary Creature - Knight Vampire Sphinx
Elenda and Azor (moc) 6
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
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
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 19 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
63 pips - 41 cards
40 mana - 40 cards
22 pips - 19 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
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