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Whtz, the Bibliophile
Rulebreaker — A deck with this commander has no maximum deck size.
,
: You draw a card and gain 1 life. This ability costs
less to activate if you had 200 or more cards in your starting deck.
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Whtz, the Bibliophile (mbc) 57

Commander

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Jelenn Sphinx
Flying, vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, other attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Sphinx
Jelenn Sphinx (bbd) 224

Anthem

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Temporal Mastery
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sorcery
Temporal Mastery (inr) 90

Burn

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Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 284
Spell Pierce
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spell Pierce (dft) 64

Counters

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Cerulean Sphinx
Flying
: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library.
Creature - Sphinx
Cerulean Sphinx (rvr) 36
Citywatch Sphinx
Flying
When this creature dies, surveil 2. (Look at the top two 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 - Sphinx
Citywatch Sphinx (plst) GRN-33
Jwar Isle Avenger
Surge
(You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Jwar Isle Avenger (plst) OGW-58
Serra Sphinx
Flying, vigilance
Creature - Sphinx
Serra Sphinx (plst) 2XM-68
Sphinx of New Prahv
Flying, vigilance
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost
more to cast.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of New Prahv (rvr) 227

Creature

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Academy Wall
Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Wall
Academy Wall (dmu) 41
Arbiter of the Ideal
Flying
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Creature - Sphinx
Arbiter of the Ideal (bng) 31
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
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (trc) 434
Cloudreader Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, 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.)
Creature - Sphinx
Cloudreader Sphinx (plst) DOM-47
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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
Defiant Strike
Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Instant
Defiant Strike (j25) 187
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
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
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (h2r) 2
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (trc) 438
Horizon Scholar
Flying
When this creature enters, 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.)
Creature - Sphinx
Horizon Scholar (cmr) 73
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
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
Library of Leng
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
Artifact
Library of Leng (5ed) 387
Marauding Sphinx
Flying, vigilance, ward

Whenever you commit a crime, surveil 2. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 288
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 (trc) 440
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
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Sandstone Oracle
Flying
When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sandstone Oracle (cmm) 406
Sea Gate Restoration
Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Sleight of Hand
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
Sorcery
Sleight of Hand (woe) 67
Spellbook
You have no maximum hand size.
Artifact - Book
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
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 Lost Truths
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Lost Truths (zen) 69
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 Chimes
Flying
Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Chimes (rtr) 52
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
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
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
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 383
Stock Up
Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Sorcery
Stock Up (dft) 67
Strategic Planning
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Strategic Planning (khm) 77
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
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371
Telling Time
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one on top of your library, and one on the bottom of your library.
Instant
Telling Time (dsc) 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
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
Vnwxt, Verbose Host
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
You have no maximum hand size.
Max speed — If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Vnwxt, Verbose Host (dft) 73
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
Witness of Tomorrows
Flying
: Scry 1.
Creature Enchantment - Sphinx
Witness of Tomorrows (thb) 82
Wizard Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchantment - Class
Wizard Class (blc) 112

Draw

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Battle of Wits
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.
Enchantment
Battle of Wits (plst) M13-44
Goliath Sphinx
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99
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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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Ancient Den
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Ancient Den (eoc) 148
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Arcane Lighthouse
: Add
.
,
: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.
Land
Arcane Lighthouse (soc) 361
Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Darksteel Citadel
Indestructible
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (fdc) 300
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (trc) 527
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (trc) 528
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 (trc) 529
Geier Reach Sanitarium
: Add
.
,
: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.
Legendary Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (fdc) 303
Glacial Floodplain
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Snow Land - Plains Island
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (trc) 535
Hengegate Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Idyllic Beachfront
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Idyllic Beachfront (fic) 404
Idyllic Grange
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Plains.
When this land enters untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Land - Plains
Idyllic Grange (eld) 246
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (trc) 538
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
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
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
: Add
.
,
: Each player draws a card.
Legendary Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.
Legendary Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
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
Myriad Landscape (eoc) 169
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
Nimbus Maze
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains.
Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
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
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 (trc) 545
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mdd) 292
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 (trc) 547
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (trc) 548
Razortide Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (eoc) 171
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (frc) 23
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (trc) 551
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (trc) 555
Seachrome Coast
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Seachrome Coast (blc) 328
Seat of the Synod
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (eoc) 176
Shefet Dunes
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Shefet Dunes (otc) 318
Skybridge Towers
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Skybridge Towers (snc) 256
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (trc) 559
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 (trc) 566
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (trc) 570
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (trc) 571
Tranquil Cove
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Tranquil Cove (tdm) 270
Tundra
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Island
Tundra (3ed) 289
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "
: Add
."
II — This Saga gains "
,
: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost
or
, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259

Land

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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

Landfall

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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
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
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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Akroma's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Instant
Akroma's Will (m3c) 165
Comeuppance
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.
Instant
Comeuppance (mkc) 58
Feat of Resistance
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)
Instant
Feat of Resistance (plst) KTK-10
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
Flawless Maneuver (frc) 25
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
Gods Willing
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)
Scry 1.
Instant
Gods Willing (clu) 63
Hydroelectric Specimen
Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.
Creature - Weird
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Keep Safe
Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.
Draw a card.
Instant
Keep Safe (iko) 56
Leyline of Anticipation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
Leyline of Sanctity
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Enchantment
Leyline of Sanctity (m20) 26
Restoration Magic
Tiered (Choose one additional cost.)
• Cure —
— Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• Cura —
— Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 3 life.
• Curaga —
— Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 6 life.
Instant
Restoration Magic (fin) 30
Sejiri Shelter
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
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
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

Protection

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Baral, Chief of Compliance
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
Cloud Key
As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Cloud Key (eoc) 54
Knight of the White Orchid
First strike
When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Knight
Knight of the White Orchid (moc) 193
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
Land Tax (soc) 153
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
Ornithopter of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Thopter
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (msc) 215
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (trc) 509
Watcher of the Spheres
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (trc) 511

Ramp

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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

Recursion

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Alhammarret, High Arbiter
Flying
As Alhammarret enters, each opponent reveals their hand. You choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Alhammarret, High Arbiter (ori) 43
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fic) 267
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
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
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
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
Farewell
Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.
Sorcery
Farewell (fic) 242
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Foil
You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Foil (plst) UMA-55
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (msc) 133
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
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Mana Sculpt
Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of
equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.
Instant
Mana Sculpt (sos) 57
Mana Tithe
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Mana Tithe (tsr) 26
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (trc) 441
Press the Enemy
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Press the Enemy (ltr) 65
Resculpt
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
Instant
Resculpt (soc) 201
Riddlemaster Sphinx
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Sphinx
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m20) 317
Sink into Stupor
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
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

Removal

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Leyline of Singularity
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
All nonland permanents are legendary.
Enchantment
Leyline of Singularity (gpt) 29

Stax

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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
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

Theft

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Sharding Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sharding Sphinx (moc) 235

Tokens

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Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 289

Tutor

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Refocus
Untap target creature.
Draw a card.
Instant
Refocus (plst) FRF-47

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

34 pips - 27 cards
70 mana - 68 cards
149 pips - 94 cards
70 mana - 68 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
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18 mana - 16 cards
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