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Sphinx or Fiction
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Est deck cost: $354.55
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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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Land

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Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Land
Arch of Orazca (rix) 185
Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land
Bonders' Enclave (iko) 245
Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (eld) 242
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (2xm) 375
Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Lonely Sandbar (mh1) 242
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (ema) 241
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, 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 (c17) 262
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c14) 308
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (cmr) 361

Land

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Artifact

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Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (nph) 132
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmr) 306
Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Endless Atlas (2xm) 251
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (2xm) 255
Gauntlet of Power

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact
Gauntlet of Power (tsr) 267
Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (m20) 229
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (cmd) 253
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (pw21) 5
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (a25) 232
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (cns) 206

Artifact

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Proxy

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Temporal Manipulation

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Manipulation (plst) UMA-77

Proxy

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Creature

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (pstx) 37p
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
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
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
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
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
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 (khc) 40
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 (cp1) 1
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
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 Ambassador (m10) 73
Sphinx of Enlightenment

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

Creature
Sphinx of Enlightenment (gn2) 2
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 Magosi

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

Creature
Sphinx of Magosi (c14) 127
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
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 of the Second Sun (cmr) 99
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 (c14) 128
Stoic Sphinx

Flash Flying This creature has hexproof as long as you haven't cast a spell this turn.

Creature
Stoic Sphinx (otj) 71
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. {3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (thb) 71
Windreader Sphinx

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

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (m19) 84

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Sorcery

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Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four 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.) Target player draws three cards.

Sorcery
Ancestral Vision (ima) 42
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 (ths) 46
Devastation Tide

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Devastation Tide (c16) 87
Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Sorcery
Invoke the Winds (neo) 58
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 (c21) 125
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 (m11) 70
Spectral Deluge

Return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control. Foretell {1}{U}{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
Spectral Deluge (khc) 7
Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery
Spelltwine (c16) 97
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 (znc) 37
Temporal Trespass

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

Sorcery
Temporal Trespass (frf) 55
Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Time Warp (sta) 22

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
Font of Magic

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each time you've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

Enchantment
Font of Magic (clb) 562
Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
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 (khm) 400

Enchantment

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Instant

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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
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rtr) 35
Deliberate

Scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Deliberate (znr) 56
Fated Infatuation

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Instant
Fated Infatuation (bng) 39
Impulse

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
Impulse (plst) BBD-119
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (grn) 44
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (plst) BBD-122
Neutralize

Counter target spell. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Neutralize (iko) 59
Opt

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

Instant
Opt (sta) 82
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (gk2) 109
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 (nec) 95
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (mom) 353
Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Sinister Sabotage (grn) 54
Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 71
Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more — • Counter target spell. • Counter target activated or triggered ability. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. • Target player draws a card.

Instant
Sublime Epiphany (m21) 74
Void Shatter

Devoid (This card has no color.) Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Void Shatter (ogw) 49

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