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Sphinx Madness
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Est deck cost: $90.54
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Commander

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} 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.

Creature
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign (hou) 52

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Creature

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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).

Creature
Alhammarret, High Arbiter (ori) 43
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
Cloudreader Sphinx (2xm) 45
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 {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, 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
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
Goliath Sphinx

Flying

Creature
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99
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
Horizon Scholar (cmr) 73
Jwar Isle Avenger

Surge {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Flying

Creature
Jwar Isle Avenger (plst) OGW-58
Mistwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Mistwalker (khm) 68
Serra Sphinx

Flying, vigilance

Creature
Serra Sphinx (2xm) 68
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 of Jwar Isle (c18) 103

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Pump

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Empyrial Plate

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Empyrial Plate (c16) 251

Pump

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Tokens

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Donal, Herald of Wings

Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell with flying, you may copy it, except the copy is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Do this only once each turn. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature
Donal, Herald of Wings (voc) 3
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
Sharding Sphinx (moc) 235
Universal Automaton

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

Creature Artifact
Universal Automaton (j22) 803

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Draw

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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
Arbiter of the Ideal (bng) 31
Atemsis, All-Seeing

Flying {2}{U}, {T}: 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.

Creature
Atemsis, All-Seeing (m20) 46
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (scd) 44
Call to the Kindred

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Call to the Kindred (dka) 30
Confounding Conundrum

When this enchantment enters, draw a card. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Confounding Conundrum (znr) 53
Conundrum Sphinx

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, each player chooses a card name. Then each player reveals the top card of their library. If the card a player revealed has the name they chose, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, that player puts it on the bottom of their library.

Creature
Conundrum Sphinx (c18) 84
Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} 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
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (lcc) 154
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.)

Creature
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
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
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant
Flow of Knowledge (bro) 49
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Inspired Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have. {3}{U}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
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
Master of Winds (znr) 68
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (woc) 101
Ormos, Archive Keeper

Flying If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos. {1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

Creature
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
Prognostic Sphinx

Flying Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it. Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

Creature
Prognostic Sphinx (afc) 90
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (woc) 105
Serum Sovereign

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature. {U}, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.

Creature
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Sphinx of Enlightenment

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.

Creature
Sphinx of Enlightenment (scd) 61
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 of Foresight (rna) 55
Sphinx of Lost Truths

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

Creature
Sphinx of Lost Truths (zen) 69
Sphinx of Magosi

Flying {2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Sphinx of Magosi (cn2) 122
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 of Uthuun (cmr) 406
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
Windreader Sphinx

Flying Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64
Winged Words

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Winged Words (scd) 65

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Ramp

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Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (cmm) 373
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (cmm) 948
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (woc) 147
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (cmm) 952
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
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
Master of Predicaments (m15) 67
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (woc) 99
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (lcc) 309
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (lcc) 309
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (cmm) 966
Palladium Myr

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Creature Artifact
Palladium Myr (cmm) 967
Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (cmm) 403
Semblance Anvil

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Semblance Anvil (som) 201
Silver Myr

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (som) 202
Sisay's Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
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
Solemn Simulacrum (cmm) 973
Stonespeaker Crystal

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile any number of target players' graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact
Stonespeaker Crystal (clb) 338
Thryx, the Sudden Storm

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Creature
Thryx, the Sudden Storm (cmm) 127
Warden of Evos Isle

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Warden of Evos Isle (scd) 63
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (cmm) 984

Ramp

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Clones

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Clone

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Clone (m13) 45
Mirror Image

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control.

Creature
Mirror Image (m19) 61
Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (akh) 74

Clones

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Land

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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. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (afc) 244
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 396
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (lcc) 359

Land

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Recursion

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Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
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
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14

Recursion

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Copy

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (mm3) 32
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
Stolen Identity

Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Stolen Identity (ncc) 233

Copy

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Landfall

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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
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78

Landfall

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
Cancel

Counter target spell.

Instant
Cancel (m21) 46
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (6ed) 61
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (lcc) 150
Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Disdainful Stroke (woe) 47
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
Dream Eater (grn) 38
Enigma Thief

Prowl {3}{U} (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
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Foil (uma) 55
Kasmina's Transmutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Kasmina's Transmutation (rvr) 46
Kefnet's Last Word

Gain control of target artifact, creature, or enchantment. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

Sorcery
Kefnet's Last Word (hou) 39
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Ravenform (lcc) 167
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (woc) 104
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
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
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m20) 317
River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Sorcery
River's Rebuke (ncc) 231
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (cmr) 102
The Phasing of Zhalfir

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control this Saga. III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

Enchantment
The Phasing of Zhalfir (dmu) 59
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (2x2) 67
Whirlwind Denial

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Whirlwind Denial (thb) 81
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66
You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one — • Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell. • Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant
You Find the Villains' Lair (afr) 84

Removal

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Counters

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Calculated Dismissal

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, scry 2. (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.)

Instant
Calculated Dismissal (ori) 48

Counters

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Protection

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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 of the Final Word (ogw) 63

Protection

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Theft

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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
Dazzling Sphinx (c21) 25

Theft

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