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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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Conspiracy
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Conspiracy (acr) 88
Leyline of Transformation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Leyline of Transformation (dsk) 63

Anthem

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Ebony Owl Netsuke
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, this artifact deals 4 damage to that player.
Artifact
Ebony Owl Netsuke (sok) 154

Burn

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Bloodline Pretender
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Bloodline Pretender (moc) 350
Cathars' Crusade
Whenever a creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Enchantment
Cathars' Crusade (inr) 17
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
Force of Negation
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50

Counters

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Tribble Cluster
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Tribble creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Tribble
Tribble Cluster (trc) 32
Troubling Tribbles
This creature can't block.
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Creature - Tribble
Troubling Tribbles (trk) 41

Creature

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Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (trc) 434
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
Crystal Ball (plst) C18-201
Enigma Sphinx
Flying
When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Enigma Sphinx (plst) C18-178
Folio of Fancies
Players have no maximum hand size.
,
: Each player draws X cards.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Artifact - Book
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (plst) C13-203
Paradox Haze
Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.
Enchantment - Aura
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
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
Sensei's Divining Top
: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Soothsaying
: Shuffle your library.
: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Enchantment
Soothsaying (mmq) 104
Spellbook
You have no maximum hand size.
Artifact - Book
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Sphinx of Enlightenment
Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Enlightenment (j25) 364
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 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
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
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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Kobayashi Maru Scenario
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Hail — Return up to one target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less to its owner's hand.
• Sensors — Draw two cards.
• Transport — Create two 1/1 red Officer creature tokens.
• Abandon Ship — You lose the game.
Enchantment
Kobayashi Maru Scenario (trk) 68

Enchantment

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Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247

Finisher

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Academy Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Academy Ruins (trc) 512
Adagia, Windswept Bastion
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
,
: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Adagia, Windswept Bastion (eoe) 250
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
Arcane Sanctum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Arcane Sanctum (trc) 513
Arid Archway
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Add
.
Land - Desert
Arid Archway (otj) 252
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
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Cardassia Prime
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land - Planet
Cardassia Prime (trk) 280
Command Beacon
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Land
Command Beacon (trc) 520
Command Bridge
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped permanent you control.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Command Bridge (eoe) 252
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (trc) 521
Coral Atoll
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Coral Atoll (cmr) 480
Detection Tower
: Add
.
,
: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Eclipsed Steppe
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Swamp
Eclipsed Steppe (trc) 526
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
Gemstone Caverns
If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
: Add
. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
Legendary Land
Gemstone Caverns (tsr) 280
Goldmire Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Goldmire Bridge (moc) 407
Guildless Commons
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Guildless Commons (cmm) 1003
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mdd) 292
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (trc) 551
Romulus
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land - Planet
Romulus (trk) 294
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (msc) 263
Shore Leave Planet
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
: This land becomes a copy of target creature you control until end of turn, except it isn't legendary and it's a Robot artifact in addition to its other types.
Land - Planet
Shore Leave Planet (trc) 130
Strip Mine
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Land
Strip Mine (eos) 85
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mdd) 296
Vulcan
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land - Planet
Vulcan (trk) 305

Land

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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
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 435
Venser's Journal
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Lifegain

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Bruvac the Grandiloquent
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Bruvac the Grandiloquent (sds) 8
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
Hedron Crab
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Crab
Hedron Crab (tdc) 155
Ruin Crab
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Crab
Ruin Crab (plst) ZNR-75
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290

Mill

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Curator's Ward
Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent has hexproof.
When enchanted permanent leaves the battlefield, if it was historic, draw two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Enchantment - Aura
Curator's Ward (dom) 49
Diplomatic Immunity
Enchant creature
Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creature has shroud.
Enchantment - Aura
Diplomatic Immunity (mmq) 75
Flock Impostor
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, return up to one other target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Flock Impostor (ecl) 16
Glaring Spotlight
Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Glaring Spotlight (gtc) 229
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
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
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (trc) 496
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 Steel Wind
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (ema) 207
Unsettled Mariner
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Unsettled Mariner (plst) MH1-216

Protection

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Thinking Cap
Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip Detective

Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Thinking Cap (mkm) 257

Pump

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 245
Magnifying Glass
: Add
.
,
: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Artifact
Magnifying Glass (mkm) 255
Misleading Signpost
Flash
When this artifact enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)
: Add
.
Artifact
Misleading Signpost (fdc) 69
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Quicksilver Amulet
,
: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Quicksilver Amulet (e02) 44
Skirge Familiar
Flying
Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Imp Phyrexian
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 286

Ramp

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Barkform Harvester
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Reach
: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Barkform Harvester (blb) 243
Elixir of Immortality
,
: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.
Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
Graveshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Graveshifter (ecl) 104
Learn from the Past
Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
Instant
Learn from the Past (ltc) 192
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (fic) 282

Recursion

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Absorb
Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Absorb (dmr) 186
Access Denied
Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Instant
Access Denied (nec) 11
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 (fdn) 160
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 (plst) OTC-89
Archmage's Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
Instant
Archmage's Charm (mh1) 40
Cancel
Counter target spell.
Instant
Cancel (fdn) 505
Clash of Wills
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Clash of Wills (ori) 49
Consider the Prime Directive
Choose one —
• Interfere — Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
• Observe — Tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. Draw a card. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Instant
Consider the Prime Directive (trk) 51
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fdc) 61
Didn't Say Please
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.
Instant
Didn't Say Please (eld) 42
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
Imprisoned in the Moon
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "
: Add
" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Enchantment - Aura
Imprisoned in the Moon (plst) INR-69

Removal

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Leyline of the Void
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (dsk) 106

Stax

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Acquire
Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Sorcery
Acquire (5dn) 21
Crabomination
Emerge from artifact
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.)
When this creature enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Demon Crab
Crabomination (mh3) 85
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
Donate
Target player gains control of target permanent you control.
Sorcery
Donate (uds) 31

Theft

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Ginger, Queen of Sweets
When Ginger enters, you become the monarch.
,
, Sacrifice Ginger: You gain 6 life.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a Gingerbrute token. (It's a
1/1 Food Golem artifact creature with haste, "
: This token can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste," and "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Legendary Creature Artifact - Noble Food
Ginger, Queen of Sweets (frc) 14
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
,
: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (drc) 132

Tokens

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Agency Outfitter
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your graveyard, hand and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Creature - Sphinx Detective
Agency Outfitter (mkm) 38

Tutor

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Mind Over Matter
Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
Enchantment
Mind Over Matter (exo) 40

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 15 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
74 pips - 48 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
17 pips - 13 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
17 mana - 14 cards
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