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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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Air Nomad Legacy
When this enchantment enters, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Air Nomad Legacy (tla) 206
Empyrean Eagle
Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Creature - Bird Spirit
Empyrean Eagle (fdn) 239
Favorable Winds
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Favorable Winds (scd) 52
Gravitational Shift
Creatures with flying get +2/+0.
Creatures without flying get -2/-0.
Enchantment
Gravitational Shift (scd) 54

Anthem

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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) 408
Sphinx of Magosi
Flying
: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Magosi (cn2) 122

Counters

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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
Conspiracy Unraveler
Flying
You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)
Creature - Sphinx Detective
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
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
Goliath Sphinx
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99

Creature

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Artificer's Assistant
Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Bird
Artificer's Assistant (plst) DOM-44
Augury Owl
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Bird
Augury Owl (j22) 273
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
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 (2xm) 45
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
Ethersworn Sphinx
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Ethersworn Sphinx (mh2) 195
Eye of Jace
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, sacrifice this artifact, it deals 2 damage to each opponent, and you gain 2 life. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Artifact
Eye of Jace (fra) 170
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 (scd) 4
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
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
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 Enlightenment
Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Enlightenment (scd) 61
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64
Winged Words
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Winged Words (scd) 65

Draw

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Contaminated Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Contaminated Landscape (frc) 68
Dismal Backwater
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dismal Backwater (tdm) 254
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (frc) 73
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (fra) 283
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (frc) 74
Lonely Arroyo
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
: Add
or
.
Land - Desert
Lonely Arroyo (otj) 260
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 (fra) 282
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (frc) 79
Razortide Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (brc) 195
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (tdm) 267
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Sejiri Refuge
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sejiri Refuge (scd) 317
Sunlit Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Sunlit Marsh (soc) 409
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fra) 285
Temple of Deceit
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 Deceit (drc) 176
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 (eoc) 186
Thriving Heath
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land
Thriving Heath (j25) 777
Thriving Isle
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land
Thriving Isle (j25) 778
Thriving Moor
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land
Thriving Moor (j25) 779

Land

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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
Sphinx Sovereign
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if this creature is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx Sovereign (ala) 196
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228

Lifegain

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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
Confounding Riddle
Choose one —
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Confounding Riddle (lci) 50
Disdainful Stroke
Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Disdainful Stroke (snc) 39
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (p30a) 27
Judge's Familiar
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Bird
Judge's Familiar (rvr) 192
No More Lies
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
No More Lies (mkm) 221
Refute
Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.
Instant
Refute (fdn) 313
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

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 245
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (clu) 219
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (ecc) 139
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (frc) 56
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (frc) 57
Lantern of Revealing
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
Artifact
Lantern of Revealing (clb) 318
Patchwork Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Patchwork Banner (soc) 353
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (frc) 62
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (frc) 64
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
Warden of Evos Isle
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Warden of Evos Isle (scd) 63

Ramp

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Jackdaw Savior
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying dies, return another target creature card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Cleric Bird
Jackdaw Savior (blb) 18
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 457
Uldaros Theorix
Flying
When Uldaros Theorix enters, if you cast him, exile up to one target nonland card of each card type from your graveyard. Copy those cards. You may cast any number of spells with total mana value 6 or less from among the copies without paying their mana costs. (Permanent spells cast this way become tokens.)
Legendary Creature - Elder Sphinx
Uldaros Theorix (fra) 421

Recursion

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Archive Arbiter
Flying
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent.
• You gain 4 life.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Archive Arbiter (fra) 167
Kindred Dominance
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Kindred Judgment
Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Kindred Judgment (fra) 13
Make Your Move
Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.
Instant
Make Your Move (mkm) 22
Merciless Eviction
Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
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) 353
Multiply by Zero
Target creature has base power and toughness 0/0 until end of turn.
Instant
Multiply by Zero (fra) 58
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (frc) 30
Perplexing Test
Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Perplexing Test (soc) 197
Punish Ignorance
Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Instant
Punish Ignorance (ala) 183
Singularity Rupture
Destroy all creatures, then any number of target players each mill half their library, rounded down.
Sorcery
Singularity Rupture (eoe) 398
Twisted Fates
Destroy target nonland permanent. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.
Sorcery
Twisted Fates (fra) 158
Vindictive Triumph
Exile target creature or planeswalker. If that permanent's mana value was 3 or less, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Vindictive Triumph (fra) 162
Warrant
Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.
Instant
Warrant // Warden (rvr) 240

Removal

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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
Pride of the Clouds
Flying
This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield with flying.
Forecast —
, Reveal this creature from your hand: Create a 1/1 white and blue Bird creature token with flying. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
Creature - Elemental Cat
Pride of the Clouds (dis) 125
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
Skycat Sovereign
Flying
This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with flying.
: Create a 1/1 white Cat Bird creature token with flying.
Creature - Elemental Cat
Skycat Sovereign (scd) 243

Tokens

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Augury Raven
Flying
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Creature - Bird
Augury Raven (khm) 44
Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (clu) 229
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Curiosity Crafter
Flying
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Curiosity Crafter (c21) 24
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Silver Raven
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature Artifact - Bird
Silver Raven (afr) 74
Sphinx of False Conclusions
Flash
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
When this creature dies, if it isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of it.
Creature - Illusion Sphinx
Sphinx of False Conclusions (fra) 40
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 Decree
Each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Sorcery
Sphinx's Decree (rix) 24
Sphinx's Insight
Draw two cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, you gain 2 life.
Instant
Sphinx's Insight (rna) 209
Sphinx's Tutelage
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (plst) ORI-76
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 (lcc) 366
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

Maybeboard

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Bird
Flying
Creature Token - Bird
Bird (tgk2) 1
Cat Bird
Flying
Creature Token - Bird Cat
Cat Bird (tscd) 5
Copy
(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)
Token
Copy (tfdn) 26
Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Yawning Portal — You gain 1 life. (Leads to: Dungeon Level)
Dungeon Level — Scry 1. (Leads to: Goblin Bazaar, Twisted Caverns)
Goblin Bazaar — Create a Treasure token. (Leads to: Lost Level)
Twisted Caverns — Target creature can't attack until your next turn. (Leads to: Lost Level)
Lost Level — Scry 2. (Leads to: Runestone Caverns, Muiral's Graveyard)
Runestone Caverns — Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them. (Leads to: Deep Mines)
Muiral's Graveyard — Create two 1/1 black Skeleton creature tokens. (Leads to: Deep Mines)
Deep Mines — Scry 3. (Leads to: Mad Wizard's Lair)
Mad Wizard's Lair — Draw three cards and reveal them. You may cast one of them without paying its mana cost.
Dungeon
Dungeon of the Mad Mage (tafr) 20
Goblin
Creature Token - Goblin
Goblin (tfrc) 9
Lost Mine of Phandelver
Cave Entrance — Scry 1. (Leads to: Goblin Lair, Mine Tunnels)
Goblin Lair — Create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. (Leads to: Storeroom, Dark Pool)
Mine Tunnels — Create a Treasure token. (Leads to: Dark Pool, Fungi Cavern)
Storeroom — Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. (Leads to: Temple of Dumathoin)
Dark Pool — Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Leads to: Temple of Dumathoin)
Fungi Cavern — Target creature gets -4/-0 until your next turn. (Leads to: Temple of Dumathoin)
Temple of Dumathoin — Draw a card.
Dungeon
Lost Mine of Phandelver (tafr) 21
Skeleton
Creature Token - Skeleton
Skeleton (t30a) 7
Sphinx
Flying, vigilance
Creature Token - Sphinx
Sphinx (trvr) 17
Spirit
Flying
Creature Token - Spirit
Spirit (tmh3) 28
The Atropal
Deathtouch
Legendary Creature Token - Horror God
The Atropal (tafr) 5
Thopter
Flying
Creature Artifact Token - Thopter
Thopter (tfra) 14
Tomb of Annihilation
Trapped Entry — Each player loses 1 life. (Leads to: Veils of Fear, Oubliette)
Veils of Fear — Each player loses 2 life unless they discard a card. (Leads to: Sandfall Cell)
Sandfall Cell — Each player loses 2 life unless they sacrifice a creature, artifact, or land of their choice. (Leads to: Cradle of the Death God)
Oubliette — Discard a card and sacrifice a creature, an artifact, and a land. (Leads to: Cradle of the Death God)
Cradle of the Death God — Create The Atropal, a legendary 4/4 black God Horror creature token with deathtouch.
Dungeon
Tomb of Annihilation (tafr) 22
Treasure
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact Token - Treasure
Treasure (tfra) 15

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck stats

32 pips - 25 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
74 pips - 47 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
18 pips - 13 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
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