Sphinx Fun • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

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

$1.49 $0.55 $0.46

Commander

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Counters

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Draw

Qty: 11 Price: $34.35

Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature - Archon

$2.79 $2.03 $1.93

Crystal Ball

: 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.)

Artifact

$1.29 $0.42 $0.39

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant

$0.69 $0.25 $0.15

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

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Mystic Speculation

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$2.79 $0.98 $0.41

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$1.99 $1.25 $0.92

Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.35 $3.07

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.68 $2.25

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

$1.49 $0.80 $0.75

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

$11.99 $11.09 $8.25

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $20.78

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery

$17.99 $13.76 $12.98

Magister Sphinx

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

Creature Artifact - Sphinx

$2.79 $7.93 $6.77

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $25.02

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.37 $0.29

Ash Barrens

: Add

.
Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.51 $1.40

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

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

Land

$0.69 $0.35 $0.23

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.28 $0.15

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Add

Land

$1.29 $0.39 $0.34

Island

(

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Basic Land - Island

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

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

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

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

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

Land

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.19 $3.92

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$2.79 $---- $----

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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

Tainted Field

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$0.99 $0.37 $0.38

Tainted Isle

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$3.49 $2.08 $2.08

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.29 $0.55 $0.37

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $17.98

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$6.99 $3.80 $4.16

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$10.99 $8.92 $7.75

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok

$1.99 $1.34 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Chromium, the Mutable

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Discard a card: Until end of turn, Chromium becomes a Human with base power and toughness 1/1, loses all abilities, and gains hexproof. It can't be blocked this turn.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$0.99 $0.78 $0.34

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $15.89

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.60 $0.33

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.49 $0.15

Coalition Relic

: Add one mana of any color.

: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.39 $0.15

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.29 $0.16

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.39 $0.29

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.55 $1.20

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.29 $0.48 $0.36

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.61 $0.36

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.29 $0.15

Wayfarer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact

$2.49 $5.98 $6.66

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.48

Abyssal Harvester

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature - Demon Warlock

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature - Avatar

$0.69 $0.20 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 19 Price: $36.43

Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant

$0.49 $0.38 $0.26

Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Creature - Human Rogue

$8.99 $5.83 $4.16

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$3.49 $1.72 $1.61

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Ashen Rider

Flying
When this creature enters or dies, exile target permanent.

Creature - Archon

$1.79 $0.59 $0.48

Cancel

Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $2.33 $2.41

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Hostage Taker

When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature - Human Pirate

$0.49 $0.34 $0.20

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.17 $2.49

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Overseer of the Damned

Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Demon

$0.79 $0.39 $0.26

Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$4.99 $2.59 $1.67

Saw It Coming

Counter target spell.
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.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $0.97 $1.21

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Void Rend

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.33 $0.22

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 10 Price: $55.50

Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.52 $0.15

Archon of Emeria

Flying
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature - Archon

$2.79 $1.98 $1.29

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment

$6.99 $4.89 $5.03

Damping Sphere

If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces

instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs

more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.66 $0.15

Deafening Silence

Each player can't cast more than one noncreature spell each turn.

Enchantment

$2.99 $1.78 $0.61

Disruptor Flute

Flash
As this artifact enters, choose a card name.
Spells with the chosen name cost

more to cast.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact

$2.99 $1.74 $0.67

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Creature Enchantment - Spirit

$3.49 $3.43 $2.43

Pithing Needle

As this artifact enters, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact

$3.49 $1.96 $1.34

Rule of Law

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.40 $0.20

Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.)
Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

Creature - Eldrazi

$29.99 $25.13 $15.49

Stax

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Theft

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Diluvian Primordial

Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature - Avatar

$0.79 $0.58 $0.36

Theft

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $1.48

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature - Horror Squid

$0.69 $0.31 $0.29

Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature - Kraken

$0.79 $0.33 $0.19

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Spirit

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $215.11

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.57Total Mana Value: 232.00

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20 pips - 18 cards

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22 mana - 20 cards

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45 pips - 30 cards

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25 mana - 23 cards

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27 pips - 18 cards

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24 mana - 22 cards

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0 mana - 6 cards

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0 mana - 6 cards

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13 mana - 12 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.57Total Mana Value: 232.00

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