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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) 97

Commander

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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

Counters

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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
Rhet-Tomb Mystic
Flying
Each creature card in your hand has cycling
. (
, Discard that card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Wizard Bird Zombie
Rhet-Tomb Mystic (drc) 10

Cycling

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Feast of Sanity
Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Feast of Sanity (mh2) 84
Skirge Familiar
Flying
Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Imp Phyrexian
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Tinybones Joins Up
When Tinybones Joins Up enters, any number of target players each discard a card.
Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, any number of target players each mill a card and lose 1 life.
Legendary Enchantment
Tinybones Joins Up (otj) 108

Discard

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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
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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
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
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) 90
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
Flying
If you would scry a number of cards, draw that many cards instead.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
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
Ghostly Pilferer
Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Rogue Spirit
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Obsessive Stitcher
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Wizard
Obsessive Stitcher (afc) 189
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 (jmp) 13
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
,
: Scry 2.
Whenever you scry or surveil, look at the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Do this only once each turn. (Look at the card after you scry or surveil.)
Legendary Artifact
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong (tla) 259
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 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
Sphinx of the Revelation
Flying, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, you get that many
(energy counters).
,
, Pay X
: Draw X cards.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Revelation (m3c) 127
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
Toluz, Clever Conductor
When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Toluz, Clever Conductor (snc) 228
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
Vega, the Watcher
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Bird Spirit
Vega, the Watcher (khm) 233
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (m19) 84
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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Key to the City
, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Artifact
Key to the City (c21) 248

Evasion

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Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Creature - Human Wizard
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 71
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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Arcane Sanctum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Arcane Sanctum (c17) 234
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 (mkc) 254
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (soc) 129
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 (soc) 369
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 (eoc) 160
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (sos) 274
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (frc) 74
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 (tdc) 382
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (sos) 272
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 (m3c) 364
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (frc) 79
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (sos) 260
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tdc) 398
Sunken Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sunken Ruins (frc) 86
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sos) 276
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Temple of Enlightenment
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Enlightenment (eoc) 186
Temple of Silence
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Silence (soc) 415
The Grey Havens
When The Grey Havens enters, scry 1.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color among legendary creature cards in your graveyard.
Legendary Land
The Grey Havens (ltr) 255
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (drc) 181

Land

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Watcher of Hours
Flying, ward

Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1.
Suspend 6—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with six time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Creature - Sphinx
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25

Mill

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (soc) 127
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (frc) 53
Currency Converter
Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
: Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.
Artifact
Currency Converter (frc) 55
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (frc) 56
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (tdc) 333
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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Body Launderer
Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives.
When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Rogue Ogre
Body Launderer (snc) 68
Haunting Voyage
Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (ecc) 75
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
This spell costs
less to cast for each different mana value among cards in your graveyard.
Whenever you discard a nonland card, you may cast it from your graveyard.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer (ncc) 77
Return to the Light Realms
Return all nonland permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Return to the Light Realms (fra) 20
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, venture into the dungeon. This ability triggers only once each turn. (To venture into the dungeon, enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
Create Undead — Whenever you complete a dungeon, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Sefris of the Hidden Ways (sld) 2508
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
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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Archfiend of Ifnir
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Ifnir (ecc) 70
Final Showdown
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn.
+
— Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
+
— Destroy all creatures.
Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11
Lethal Scheme
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.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
Lethal Scheme (tdc) 184
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (fdc) 70
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 (soc) 159
Spell Pierce
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spell Pierce (soa) 23
Supreme Verdict
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (soc) 179
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) 435
Wild Unraveling
As an additional cost to cast this spell, blight 2 or pay
. (To blight 2, put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Counter target spell.
Instant
Wild Unraveling (ecl) 84

Removal

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Time Sieve
, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.
Artifact
Time Sieve (plst) ARB-31

Sac Outlet

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Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay
. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck stats

24 pips - 21 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
55 pips - 38 cards
33 mana - 31 cards
30 pips - 24 cards
28 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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