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Sphinx
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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.

Creature
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign (cmm) 596

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Creature

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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
Curator of Destinies (fdn) 451
Raffine, Scheming Seer

Flying, ward {1} 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.)

Creature
Raffine, Scheming Seer (snc) 213
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 of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 457

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Protection

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Crumb and Get It

Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If the gift was promised, that creature also gains indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Crumb and Get It (blb) 8
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 (onc) 68
Haystack

{2}, {T}: Target creature you control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Artifact
Haystack (sld) 802
Reconnaissance

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance (acr) 82
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 Steel Wind

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

Creature Artifact
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (c13) 217
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 317

Protection

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Tutor

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Search for Glory

Search your library for a snow permanent card, a legendary card, or a Saga card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 1 life for each {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Sorcery
Search for Glory (khm) 27

Tutor

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Anthem

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Jelenn Sphinx

Flying, vigilance Whenever this creature attacks, other attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Jelenn Sphinx (bbd) 224

Anthem

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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
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 {X}{W}{U}{U}. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

Creature
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
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 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
Enigma Sphinx (arb) 106
Isperia, Supreme Judge

Flying Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

Creature
Isperia, Supreme Judge (scd) 4
Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (clb) 565
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
Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Enchantment
Proft's Eidetic Memory (mkm) 396
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 (blc) 175
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 (mkc) 118
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228
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
Windreader Sphinx

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

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (m19) 84
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

Draw

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Ramp

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Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (rvr) 250
Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on this artifact. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (40k) 196
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (ncc) 365
Golden Guardian

Creature Artifact
Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison (rix) 179Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison (rix) 179
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
Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Enchantment
Omniscience (wot) 24
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ncc) 379
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3} Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token. While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Creature
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10

Ramp

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Finisher

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Magister Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

Creature Artifact
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
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.

Creature
Medomai the Ageless (ths) 196
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 (acr) 86

Finisher

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Recursion

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Restart Sequence

Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Restart Sequence (acr) 30
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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Mirror Room

Enchantment
Mirror Room // Fractured Realm (dsk) 67

Copy

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (blc) 291
Ancient Ziggurat

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Land
Ancient Ziggurat (h09) 31
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (mm2) 235
Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (rvr) 272
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (m3c) 328
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (ncc) 393
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (c19) 239
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (rvr) 276
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (ltc) 305
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (otc) 293
Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}. {W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Fetid Heath (otc) 295
Forlorn Flats

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Forlorn Flats (otj) 258
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (blc) 307
Glasswing Grace

Enchantment
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254
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 (wwk) 137
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 269
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: 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 (cmm) 661
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 278
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. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (blc) 132
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (ncc) 427
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 272

Land

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Removal

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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 (c14) 104
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Eaten by Piranhas

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other colors, card types, and creature types.)

Enchantment
Eaten by Piranhas (lci) 54
Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant
Fracture (stx) 188
Pest Control

Destroy all nonland permanents with mana value 1 or less. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Pest Control (big) 22
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (who) 1069
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (otp) 57
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (otp) 59
What Must Be Done

Choose one — • Let the World Burn — Destroy all artifacts and creatures. • Release Juno — Return target historic permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it if it's a creature. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sorcery
What Must Be Done (acr) 11
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 313

Removal

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Counters

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Counterpoint

Counter target spell. You may cast a creature, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Counterpoint (mkc) 351
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (bfz) 76
Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Dissipate (mid) 49
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) 694
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Make Disappear

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Make Disappear (snc) 49
Memory Drain

Counter target spell. Scry 2.

Instant
Memory Drain (thb) 54
No Escape

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. Scry 1.

Instant
No Escape (war) 63

Counters

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Lifegain

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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
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Lifegain

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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 (otc) 93

Theft

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Deck Info

Deck stats

29 pips - 24 cards
25 mana - 22 cards
72 pips - 44 cards
28 mana - 27 cards
17 pips - 16 cards
27 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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