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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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Firdoch Core
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
: Add one mana of any color.
: This artifact becomes a 4/4 artifact creature until end of turn.
Artifact Kindred - Shapeshifter
Firdoch Core (ecl) 255

Artifact

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Phyrexian Metamorph
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Phyrexian Metamorph (sld) 1110

Clones

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Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Instant
Flusterstorm (soa) 18
Force of Negation
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
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 (soa) 19
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 (mb2) 169

Counters

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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

Creature

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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
Careful Study
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Sorcery
Careful Study (sld) 2823
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (sld) 2028
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) 305
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
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
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) 59
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
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
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 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 (sld) 1720
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
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

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 (sta) 1
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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Academy Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Academy Ruins (mma) 219
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (eos) 1
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 (zne) 9
Bloodstained Mire
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bloodstained Mire (zne) 3
Cavern of Souls
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, and that spell can't be countered.
Land
Cavern of Souls (avr) 226
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (v12) 3
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (2x2) 403
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (sld) 806
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (frc) 70
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 (zne) 1
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 (eoe) 280
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 (unf) 277
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (eoe) 263
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (eos) 25
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 (spg) 110
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 (spg) 111
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (zne) 17
Mutavault
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Land
Mutavault (eos) 28
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
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (eoe) 262
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 (zne) 2
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (eos) 36
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 (spg) 112
Scrubland
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Scrubland (3ed) 286
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (eoe) 264
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Tundra
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Island
Tundra (3ed) 289
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 332
Underground Sea
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Island Swamp
Underground Sea (3ed) 290
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 (slc) 21
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (zne) 8
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) 286
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (zne) 5

Land

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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
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 (sta) 11

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 104
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 (slc) 2003
Grim Monolith
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Add
.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Grim Monolith (ulg) 126
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 (4bb) 334
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
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 (sld) 1074
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (sld) 1053
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
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

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
Dance of the 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." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped 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/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay
. If the player does, untap that creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
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
Persist
Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
Sorcery
Persist (ecc) 83
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 (pd3) 15
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
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 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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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 (fdn) 160
Chain of Vapor
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
Instant
Chain of Vapor (mb2) 156
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 (soa) 14
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Dream Eater
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Creature - Nightmare Sphinx
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
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) 348
Proteus Staff
,
: Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. That creature's controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in any order. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Proteus Staff (mb2) 140
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (sld) 1591
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (sta) 10
The Meathook Massacre
When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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 (2xm) 345

Removal

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Bitterblossom
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.
Enchantment Kindred - Faerie
Bitterblossom (2x2) 69

Tokens

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
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) 6
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Intuition
Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.
Instant
Intuition (tmp) 70
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) 421
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
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (soa) 35

Tutor

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Altar of the Brood
Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.
Artifact
Altar of the Brood (slc) 1
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
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (sld) 1673
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
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
Polymorph
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.
Sorcery
Polymorph (plst) M10-67
Thirst for Knowledge
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (jmp) 183
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
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

13 pips - 13 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
49 pips - 35 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
20 pips - 19 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
18 mana - 12 cards
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