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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
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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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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Decanter of Endless Water

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

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 381
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (lcc) 304
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
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
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Sapphire Medallion

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

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sky Diamond

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

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
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 (pip) 252
Worn Powerstone

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

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298

Ramp

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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 (dsc) 72
Clever Impersonator

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

Creature
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128
Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (rvr) 62

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Sphinx

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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
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
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
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) 305
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
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
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 (dsc) 116
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
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
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
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
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 (dsc) 124
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 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 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) 51
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 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 (mkc) 118
Stoic Sphinx

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

Creature
Stoic Sphinx (otj) 71
Twisted Riddlekeeper

Emerge {5}{C}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, tap up to two target permanents. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Flying

Creature
Twisted Riddlekeeper (mh3) 14

Sphinx

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Interaction

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Aetherspouts

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

Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
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
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (lcc) 147
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
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 (otc) 92
Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Instant
Engulf the Shore (ddt) 5
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (lcc) 156
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
Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell.

Instant
Forbid (exo) 35
Inundate

Return all nonblue creatures to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Inundate (eve) 25
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
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 (blc) 111
Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, 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.

Creature
Scourge of Fleets (cmr) 403
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
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 (plst) M21-74
Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant
Wash Away (vow) 87

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Wincon

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Enter the Infinite

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

Sorcery
Enter the Infinite (gtc) 34
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (war) 54
Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73

Wincon

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Land

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Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (mb2) 109
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 285
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (mb2) 110
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

Land

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Sideboard

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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
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 (lcc) 319
Argent Sphinx

Flying Metalcraft — {U}: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Argent Sphinx (mm2) 41
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 (blc) 162
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 (dsc) 243
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
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
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. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Land
Coral Atoll (cmr) 480
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (j22) 812
Drawn from Dreams

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Drawn from Dreams (ncc) 220
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
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (ltc) 308
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (fdn) 725
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 (dsc) 282
Hedron Archive

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

Artifact
Hedron Archive (blc) 275
Insidious Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (mkc) 273
Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Mage-Ring Network (cmm) 1009
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 (dsc) 289
Remote Isle

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Remote Isle (dmr) 254
Rescuer Sphinx

Flying As this creature enters, you may return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Rescuer Sphinx (clu) 95
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 (c17) 94
Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (plst) PLS-134
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249
Vexing Sphinx

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Creature
Vexing Sphinx (dmr) 73
Warden of Evos Isle

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

Creature
Warden of Evos Isle (scd) 63
Windreader Sphinx

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

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64

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Maybeboard

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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
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 (fdn) 257
Sphinx of Clear Skies

Flying, ward {2} 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 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 of Enlightenment (gn2) 2

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Tokens & Extras

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Boar

Creature Token
Boar (tm3c) 17
Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tdsk) 1
Frog Lizard

Creature Token
Frog Lizard (tblc) 28
Manifest

(You can cover a face-down manifested creature with this reminder card. A manifested creature card can be turned face up any time for its mana cost. A face-down card can also be turned face up for its morph cost.)

Creature
Manifest (tdsk) 18

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