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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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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (frc) 20
Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (frc) 54
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
The Water Crystal
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Artifact
The Water Crystal (fin) 85
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (msc) 222

Artifact

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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
Azor, the Lawbringer
Flying
When Azor enters, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay
. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
Belltower Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller mills that many cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Belltower Sphinx (jmp) 141
Chancellor of the Spires
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards.
Flying
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
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) 34
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
Dazzling Sphinx
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Creature - Sphinx
Dazzling Sphinx (otc) 93
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
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) 128
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) 6
Enigma Thief
Prowl
(You may cast this spell for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Sphinx or Rogue.)
Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Glyph Keeper
Flying
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability.
Embalm
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Sphinx with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Sphinx
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
Guardian of Tazeem
Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. If that land is an Island, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Sphinx
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78
Isperia the Inscrutable
Flying
Whenever Isperia deals combat damage to a player, choose a card name. That player reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Isperia the Inscrutable (dis) 114
Isperia, Supreme Judge
Flying
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Isperia, Supreme Judge (c20) 217
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
Master of Predicaments
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's mana value is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Sphinx
Master of Predicaments (plst) M15-67
Master of Winds
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, you may have this creature's base power and toughness become 4/1 or 1/4 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Sphinx
Master of Winds (znr) 68
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
Quantum Riddler
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead.
Warp
Creature - Sphinx
Quantum Riddler (eoe) 72
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
Roaming Throne
Ward

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Serum Sovereign
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Sphinx Ambassador
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player chooses a card name. If you searched for a creature card that doesn't have that name, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Ambassador (m10) 73
Sphinx of Clear Skies
Flying, ward

Domain — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Clear Skies (dmu) 67
Sphinx of Foresight
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Foresight (rna) 55
Sphinx of Jwar Isle
Flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Jwar Isle (c18) 103
Sphinx of Magosi
Flying
: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Magosi (w17) 12
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
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 Steel Wind
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (ema) 207
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
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
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391
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

Creature

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Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (soc) 146
Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (msc) 151

Enchantment

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Abstruse Appropriation
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Exile target nonland permanent. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Instant
Abstruse Appropriation (mh3) 177
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
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fdc) 61
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (frc) 50
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
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
Sphinx's Approach (fra) 41
Unexplained Absence
For each player, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller cloaks the top card of their library. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward
. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Instant
Unexplained Absence (mkc) 17
Vanishing Verse
Exile target monocolored permanent.
Instant
Vanishing Verse (soc) 335
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (fic) 331

Instant

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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 (lci) 269
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Contaminated Aquifer
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Contaminated Aquifer (fic) 383
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (frc) 70
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (frc) 71
Fetid Pools
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp
Fetid Pools (msc) 243
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
Glacial Floodplain
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Snow Land - Plains Island
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
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
Ice Tunnel
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Snow Land - Island Swamp
Ice Tunnel (khm) 262
Idyllic Beachfront
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Idyllic Beachfront (fic) 404
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (msc) 251
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
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
Mystic Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Mystic Gate (frc) 76
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (soc) 388
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 (frc) 77
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mdd) 292
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) 224
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (frc) 79
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
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Secluded Courtyard
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 or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.
Land
Secluded Courtyard (msc) 265
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (msc) 271
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mdd) 296
Theorist's Sanctum
(
: Add
.)
As this land enters, you may behold a Jace. If you don't, this land enters tapped. (To behold a Jace, choose a Jace you control or reveal a Jace card from your hand.)
,
: Empower Jace 2.
Land - Island
Theorist's Sanctum (fra) 191
Turbulent Shore
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
Land - Plains Island
Turbulent Shore (frc) 17
Turbulent Wetlands
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Turbulent Wetlands (frc) 18
Unclaimed Territory
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.
Land
Unclaimed Territory (msc) 275
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
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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Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (msc) 156
Kindred Judgment
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Judgment (fra) 13
Moment of Reckoning
Choose up to four. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Destroy target nonland permanent.
• Return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Moment of Reckoning (sos) 205
Prismatic Ending
Converge — Exile target nonland permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
Sorcery
Prismatic Ending (mh2) 25
Raise the Palisade
Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (msc) 278
Rite of Oblivion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent.
Exile target nonland permanent.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Rite of Oblivion (mid) 237
Vindicate
Destroy target permanent.
Sorcery
Vindicate (fic) 330

Sorcery

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Emergency Eject
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
Instant
Emergency Eject (eoe) 14
Excise the Imperfect
Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller incubates X, where X is its mana value. (They create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "
: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Instant
Excise the Imperfect (moc) 14
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (msc) 133
Legions to Ashes
Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all tokens that player controls with the same name as that permanent.
Sorcery
Legions to Ashes (bro) 215
Soul Partition
Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast by an opponent this way costs
more to cast.
Instant
Soul Partition (bro) 26
Stroke of Midnight
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Instant
Stroke of Midnight (frc) 35
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (frc) 37
Utter End
Exile target nonland permanent.
Instant
Utter End (dsc) 91

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Deck stats

33 pips - 27 cards
22 mana - 19 cards
83 pips - 48 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
18 pips - 16 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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