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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) 12

Commander

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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 (afc) 81

Cycling

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Draw

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Atemsis, All-Seeing
Flying
,
: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Whenever Atemsis deals damage to an opponent, you may reveal your hand. If cards with at least six different mana values are revealed this way, that player loses the game.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Atemsis, All-Seeing (m20) 46
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
Fact or Fiction
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.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (frc) 41
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tle) 159
Inspired Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have.
: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Creature - Sphinx
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
Kindred Discovery
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.
Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (msc) 150
Ormos, Archive Keeper
Flying
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos.
, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
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
Prognostic Sphinx
Flying
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.
Creature - Sphinx
Prognostic Sphinx (dsc) 124
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
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 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 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
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) 297
Windfall
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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Evasion

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Changeling Outcast
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Changeling Outcast (otc) 128

Evasion

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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

Finisher

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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
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (frc) 66
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
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 (mh3) 436
Floodfarm Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.
Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Gloomlake Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
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
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 320
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) 437
Meticulous Archive
(
: 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 - Plains Island
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (trk) 318
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) 438
Raffine's Tower
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Swamp
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (frc) 23
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 (clb) 360
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: 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 - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 322
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
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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) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (frc) 87
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
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
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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Mill

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Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94

Mill

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Protection

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Dawn's Truce
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
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
Reconnaissance (acr) 82
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
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
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (msc) 216
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
Unsettled Mariner (plst) MH1-216

Protection

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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 (frc) 20
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (frc) 53
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (frc) 56
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (frc) 57
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
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (frc) 62
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (soc) 358
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (frc) 64
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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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 (soc) 207
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
Bloodline Bidding (ecl) 91
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
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
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
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283
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 (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
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 (tdc) 198

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
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 (msc) 147
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
Damn
Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89
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
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (msc) 133
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (msc) 156
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 (frc) 30
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
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (fic) 331

Removal

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Tokens

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Universal Automaton
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Universal Automaton (j22) 803

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 16 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
51 pips - 33 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
24 pips - 18 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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