A Sphinx Cometh • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Sphinxes Draw Lifedrain Casual

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Sphinxes Draw Lifedrain Casual

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus

$0.39 $0.26 $0.15

Commander

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As Prophesied

Qty: 8 Price: $56.42

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

$1.79 $0.41 $0.22

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$39.99 $32.65 $27.08

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

$1.79 $0.43 $0.31

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

$1.99 $0.61 $0.31

Magister Sphinx

Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

Creature Artifact - Sphinx

$2.79 $5.12 $4.16

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

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Sphinx of the Chimes

Flying
Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$0.59 $0.46 $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

$6.49 $5.86 $6.48

As Prophesied

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Counterspells

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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 $1.98 $1.87

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $2.28 $2.30

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

$79.99 $56.17 $53.45

Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.35 $---- $1.76

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$13.99 $8.72 $7.28

Counterspells

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Draw

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Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$89.99 $69.59 $62.41

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 $5.41 $4.16

Draw

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Draw Payoff

Qty: 3 Price: $5.19

Bard the Bowman

Reach
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Archer

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Foggy Swamp Spirit Keeper

Lifelink
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."

Creature - Human Druid Ally

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Legendary Enchantment

$4.49 $3.45 $2.85

Draw Payoff

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Fell Curses

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$1.29 $0.49 $0.15

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$37.99 $28.33 $27.68

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.49 $5.99 $4.68

Parting Gust

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant

$2.49 $1.38 $0.51

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

$2.49 $0.80 $0.70

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $0.96 $0.98

Fell Curses

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Hand Size

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Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.98 $4.26

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$---- $---- $14.77

Hand Size

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It approaches…

Qty: 26 Price: $84.24

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

$2.49 $0.69 $0.22

Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Legendary Artifact

$21.99 $21.34 $19.64

It approaches…

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Land

Qty: 30 (34 w/ MDFC)Price: $384.01

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.33 $0.21

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.43 $1.13

Brightclimb Pathway

: Add

Land

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259

$5.99 $4.87 $4.07

Clearwater Pathway

: Add

Land

Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260

$5.99 $5.41 $4.20

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.99 $0.25 $0.17

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 $14.16 $15.30

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 $---- $24.68

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 $---- $24.68

Hengegate Pathway

: Add

Land

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260

$7.49 $4.99 $4.89

Island

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Basic Land - Island

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

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

$42.99 $39.50 $35.94

Meticulous Archive

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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

$21.99 $14.97 $11.23

Morphic Pool

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

: Add

Land

$37.99 $29.76 $27.08

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

$42.99 $26.46 $27.11

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 $18.70 $17.71

Raffine's Tower

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, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$20.99 $14.19 $12.99

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

$18.99 $16.04 $13.02

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$29.99 $21.80 $18.74

Shadowy Backstreet

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: Add

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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

$17.99 $10.80 $9.36

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

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

Undercity Sewers

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: Add

.)
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

$21.99 $14.81 $14.44

Vault of Champions

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

: Add

Land

$21.99 $16.71 $15.10

Watery Grave

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$9.99 $---- $24.68

Land

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Lifegain Payoff

Qty: 6 Price: $7.94

Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally

$1.99 $0.68 $0.37

Indulging Patrician

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature - Vampire Noble

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.39 $0.24 $0.15

Scheming Silvertongue

Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 2 or more life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood (sos) 99

$1.79 $1.17 $0.72

Starscape Cleric

Offspring

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Cleric Bat

$1.99 $0.84 $0.40

Vizkopa Guildmage

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.99 $0.59 $0.25

Lifegain Payoff

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Protection

Qty: 3 Price: $38.97

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

$13.99 $8.58 $8.42

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$19.99 $14.59 $12.50

Sejiri Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Instant

Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37

$4.99 $2.55 $2.00

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 5 Price: $26.15

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.51 $0.37

Bender's Waterskin

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.79 $0.87 $0.46

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment

$19.99 $16.63 $14.74

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.59 $0.31 $0.19

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.39 $1.35

Ramp

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Something wicked…

Qty: 3 Price: $26.27

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer

$16.99 $13.99 $12.17

Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment

$7.49 $5.58 $4.91

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $0.88 $0.40

Something wicked…

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Maybeboard

Qty: 11 Price: $176.89

Astrologian's Planisphere

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature is a Wizard in addition to its other types and has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell and whenever you draw your third card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
Diana — Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Harmonized Trio

, Tap two untapped creatures you control: This creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Wizard Merfolk Bard

$1.29 $0.92 $0.15

Kindred Dominance

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

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.34 $4.43

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment

$7.49 $4.75 $3.44

Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery

$12.99 $12.20 $8.79

Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life.

: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Bird Shark

$19.99 $4.71 $2.63

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$119.99 $97.41 $97.94

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

$0.99 $0.39 $0.15

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

$2.49 $1.59 $0.51

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

$4.49 $2.07 $2.16

Teferi's Tutelage

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $890.40

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.24Total Mana Value: 220.00

Quantity of

As Prophesied

Commander

Counters

Counterspells

Draw

Draw Payoff

Fell Curses

Finisher

Graveyard Hate

Hand Size

It approaches…

Land

Lifegain

Lifegain Payoff

Protection

Ramp

Something wicked…

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Deck stats

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Production

Cost

16 pips - 14 cards

Production

16 mana - 16 cards

Cost

83 pips - 46 cards

Production

23 mana - 23 cards

Cost

20 pips - 15 cards

Production

18 mana - 18 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 4 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 4 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

6 mana - 5 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.24Total Mana Value: 220.00

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Commander

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Finisher

Graveyard Hate

Hand Size

It approaches…

Land

Lifegain

Lifegain Payoff

Protection

Ramp

Something wicked…

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