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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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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

Artifact

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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 (woc) 106

Copy

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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
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
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) 358
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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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
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (mkc) 98
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
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
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 (pca) 89
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 (scd) 4
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)
Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
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 (peoe) 72p
Sphinx of Enlightenment
Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Enlightenment (j25) 364
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
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

Draw

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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

Finisher

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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
Theorix Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Mill three cards, then draw a card. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Instant
Theorix Charm (fra) 155

Instant

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Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (m3c) 319
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (dsc) 268
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Contaminated Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Contaminated Landscape (mh3) 218
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (fic) 384
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deserted Beach (dbl) 260
Desolate Mire
,
: Add
.
Land
Desolate Mire (fic) 386
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (soc) 369
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 (soc) 130
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (soc) 372
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
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 (rna) 248
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 (rvr) 280
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (j25) 84
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (soc) 382
Mystic Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Mystic Gate (m3c) 359
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 (ecc) 158
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (j25) 83
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
Restless Anchorage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and blue Bird creature with flying. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, create a Map token.
Land
Restless Anchorage (lci) 280
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (tdc) 391
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (fic) 423
Sunken Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (j25) 89
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (m3c) 400
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 (eoe) 261

Land

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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

Lifegain

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Glimpse the Unthinkable
Target player mills ten cards.
Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (2x2) 218
Mind Grind
Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.
Sorcery
Mind Grind (gtc) 178
Space-Time Anomaly
Target player mills cards equal to your life total.
Sorcery
Space-Time Anomaly (eoe) 229
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
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

Mill

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Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (voc) 87
Riot Control
You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Instant
Riot Control (blc) 151
Sphinx's Decree
Each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Sorcery
Sphinx's Decree (rix) 24

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (dsc) 240
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
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 (m3c) 296
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (mb2) 100
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 (cm2) 228

Ramp

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Extract from Darkness
Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (2x2) 210
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) 457
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (afc) 112

Recursion

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Clash of Wills
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Clash of Wills (f16) 2
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Riddlemaster Sphinx
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Sphinx
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m20) 317
Singularity Rupture
Destroy all creatures, then any number of target players each mill half their library, rounded down.
Sorcery
Singularity Rupture (eoe) 228
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (soc) 179
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (otp) 59

Removal

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Cruel Calculations
Draw X cards, where X is the number of cards that were put into target player's graveyard from their library this turn.
Sorcery
Cruel Calculations (fra) 26
Kindred Judgment
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Judgment (fra) 13

Sorcery

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Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9

Stax

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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
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

Theft

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 18 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
70 pips - 45 cards
31 mana - 27 cards
18 pips - 15 cards
24 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
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