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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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Roaming Throne
Ward

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

Copy

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Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 284
Pact of Negation
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Pact of Negation (tsr) 77

Counters

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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

Creature

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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
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (h2r) 2
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 288
Necropotence
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
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 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 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
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73
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
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391
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

Draw

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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
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247

Finisher

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Academy Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Academy Ruins (drc) 58
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Arid Mesa
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (frc) 66
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
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (tmc) 62
City of Traitors
When you play another land, sacrifice this land.
: Add
.
Land
City of Traitors (exo) 143
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (frc) 69
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (frc) 70
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (frc) 71
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Forbidden Orchard
: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.
Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 323
Gemstone Caverns
If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
: Add
. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
Legendary Land
Gemstone Caverns (tsr) 280
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
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (frc) 74
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
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 (frc) 79
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (h1r) 40
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (frc) 23
Scalding Tarn
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (msc) 271
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (frc) 87
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "
: Add
."
II — This Saga gains "
,
: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost
or
, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
Volrath's Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143
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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Glimpse the Unthinkable
Target player mills ten cards.
Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (2x2) 218
Mesmeric Orb
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272

Mill

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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
Sphinx of the Steel Wind
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (ema) 207
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (frc) 20
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (frc) 53
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (frc) 56
Grim Monolith
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Add
.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Grim Monolith (ulg) 126
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
Lotus Petal
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Lotus Petal (plst) TMP-294
Mana Vault
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add
.
Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Mox Diamond
If this artifact would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put this artifact onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Mox Diamond (sth) 138
Mox Opal
Metalcraft —
: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
Sapphire Medallion
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
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
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

Ramp

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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 (soc) 207
Necromancy
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
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
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
Snapcaster Mage
Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Snapcaster Mage (inr) 478
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

Recursion

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 313
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Hullbreaker Horror
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Horror Kraken
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 357
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
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (frc) 37
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (msc) 161

Removal

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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

Theft

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Demonic Consultation
Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Instant
Demonic Consultation (ice) 121
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 263
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Imperial Seal
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 79
Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 289
Spellseeker
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Spellseeker (cmm) 120
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
Tainted Pact
Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.
Instant
Tainted Pact (ody) 164
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck stats

15 pips - 14 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
50 pips - 33 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
23 pips - 20 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 13 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 13 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
19 mana - 12 cards
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