The Ur-Sphinx • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

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

$2.49 $1.00 $0.88

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Knowledge Is Power

Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.36 $0.27

Anthem

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Clones

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Copycrook

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "Whenever this creature attacks, it connives." (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature - Rogue Shapeshifter

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Clones

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Copy

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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

$3.49 $2.95 $0.52

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

$59.99 $52.34 $51.00

Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature - Illusion

$7.49 $5.04 $4.66

Copy

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $6.33

Denzilore Fatehold

Flash
Flying
Whenever you scry or surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Legendary Creature - Elder Sphinx

$4.49 $3.60 $3.29

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

$1.49 $0.73 $0.38

Sphinx of New Prahv

Flying, vigilance
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost

more to cast.

Creature - Sphinx

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 9 Price: $9337.81

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $10.58 $9.31

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

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Harmonized Crescendo

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Instant

$1.79 $1.30 $0.23

Sphinx of Magosi

Flying

: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Sphinx

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

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

$5.99 $4.97 $2.86

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

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Enchantment

$6.49 $4.68 $3.42

Timetwister

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Sorcery

$9299.99 $6400.00 $6157.17

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.99 $6.07 $5.21

Draw

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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

$1.29 $1.44 $1.61

Temporal Manipulation

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery

$10.99 $13.59 $10.60

Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery

$6.49 $4.26 $4.37

Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery

$9.99 $6.97 $5.77

Finisher

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Instant

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Mirrorform

Each nonland permanent you control becomes a copy of target non-Aura permanent.

Instant

$4.49 $1.99 $1.23

Instant

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$199.99 $127.78 $132.53

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $29.21 $25.98

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.25 $0.18

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$13.99 $9.78 $8.46

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.69 $0.25 $0.17

Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$2.79 $1.61 $0.85

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

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

$22.99 $16.15 $14.03

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

$9.99 $---- $----

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

$9.99 $---- $----

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $---- $----

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Mana Confluence

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$42.99 $35.90 $25.70

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

$37.99 $32.34 $31.82

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$39.99 $27.22 $26.94

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$39.99 $25.76 $26.49

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $---- $----

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

$24.99 $20.89 $18.75

Prairie Stream

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.13 $4.26

Scrubland

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Land - Plains Swamp

$599.99 $452.56 $314.15

Sunken Hollow

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$0.79 $0.36 $0.26

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $---- $----

Tundra

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Land - Plains Island

$849.99 $695.59 $401.17

Underground Sea

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Land - Island Swamp

$1499.99 $1105.08 $690.84

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$59.99 $55.42 $52.91

Vault of the Archangel

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: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land

$2.49 $1.15 $1.44

Land

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Protection

Qty: 10 Price: $130.91

Batwing Brume

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if

was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if

was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if

was spent.)

Instant

$---- $---- $----

Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Instant

$5.99 $3.62 $3.11

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$20.99 $15.52 $13.91

Ethereal Haze

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn.

Instant - Arcane

$0.99 $1.22 $0.51

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$14.99 $8.99 $8.14

Reconnaissance

: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Enchantment

$6.99 $4.17 $4.11

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$14.99 $10.69 $5.40

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

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: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $2.39 $2.07

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

$54.99 $47.16 $44.02

Unsettled Mariner

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays

Creature - Shapeshifter

$5.99 $5.10 $4.63

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 12 Price: $162.28

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.46 $0.35

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.50 $0.35

Gilded Lotus

: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.53 $0.36

Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment

$3.49 $1.89 $1.19

Hedron Archive

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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$10.99 $8.96 $7.63

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

$64.99 $56.81 $55.75

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.25 $1.04

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$47.99 $37.69 $37.09

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.29 $0.37 $0.29

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.45 $0.33

Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$23.99 $19.30 $18.77

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 4 Price: $21.46

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

$4.99 $3.93 $2.31

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

$13.99 $6.57 $6.00

Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying
When Sharuum enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Sphinx

$0.99 $0.33 $0.16

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

$1.49 $0.58 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $20.23

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

$5.99 $3.16 $3.11

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

$3.99 $1.78 $1.78

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $1.64 $2.05

Settle the Wreckage

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$0.49 $0.51 $0.15

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$1.99 $1.34 $0.46

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.79 $0.71 $0.69

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.99 $0.28 $0.19

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 2 Price: $5.48

Bloodline Bidding

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.00 $1.64

Kindred Judgment

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.47 $1.04

Sorcery

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99

Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

$7.99 $7.25 $6.19

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Sharding Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact - Sphinx

$0.59 $0.35 $0.20

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $144.98

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$84.99 $69.28 $61.46

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$59.99 $54.05 $54.04

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $13,459.13

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.77Total Mana Value: 234.00

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24 pips - 20 cards

Production

23 mana - 21 cards

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48 pips - 30 cards

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24 mana - 22 cards

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15 pips - 13 cards

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25 mana - 23 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 8 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 8 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

Production

12 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.77Total Mana Value: 234.00

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