Ethersworn Sphinx

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} 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.)

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Disenchant

Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Flying, vigilance, menace
Whenever Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign 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.

Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.)
Raffine's Tower enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Belbe's Portal

As Belbe's Portal enters, choose a creature type.
{3}, {T}: You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

Thought Vessel

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

Slash the Ranks

Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers except for commanders.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

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.

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

Depart the Realm

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
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.)

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Choked Estuary

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

Elenda and Azor

Flying, ward {2}
Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{B}. If you do, draw X cards.
At the beginning of each end step, you may pay 4 life. If you do, create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Azor, the Lawbringer

Flying
When Azor, the Lawbringer 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.

Consecrated Sphinx

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

Command Tower

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

Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying
Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign 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.

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

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

Medomai the Ageless

Flying
Whenever Medomai the Ageless deals combat damage to a player, take an extra turn after this one.
Medomai the Ageless can't attack during extra turns.

Isperia, Supreme Judge

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

Gilded Lotus

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.

Magister Sphinx

Flying
When Magister Sphinx enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

Sphinx Ambassador

Flying
Whenever Sphinx Ambassador 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.

Reliquary Tower

Brilliant Ultimatum

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying
When Sharuum the Hegemon enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sphinx Sovereign

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

Moonring Island

({T}: Add {U}.)
Moonring Island enters tapped.
{U}, {T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. Activate only if you control two or more blue permanents.

Azorius Chancery

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

Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Windreader Sphinx

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

Enigma Sphinx

Flying
When Enigma Sphinx 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.)

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.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

Mana Geode

When Mana Geode enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Lotus Field

Hexproof
Lotus Field enters tapped.
When Lotus Field enters, sacrifice two lands.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Arcane Signet

Esper Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.

Portent

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Swamp

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.)

Dream Trawler

Flying, lifelink
Whenever you draw a card, Dream Trawler gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever Dream Trawler attacks, draw a card.
Discard a card: Dream Trawler gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.

Manascape Refractor

Manascape Refractor enters tapped.
Manascape Refractor has all activated abilities of all lands on the battlefield.
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of Manascape Refractor's abilities.

Sol Ring

Fierce Guardianship

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

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Exotic Orchard

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

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Azorius Signet

Evolving Wilds

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

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

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, Archive Keeper.
{1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

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.")

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying
When Sphinx of Uthuun 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.

Island

Plains

Inspired Sphinx

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

Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara 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.)

Master of Predicaments

Flying
Whenever Master of Predicaments 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.

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 Chancellor of the Spires enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

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.

Isperia the Inscrutable

Flying
Whenever Isperia the Inscrutable deals combat damage to a player, choose a card name. That player reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Atemsis, All-Seeing

Flying
{2}{U}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Whenever Atemsis, All-Seeing 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.

Sphinx Mindbreaker

Flying
When Sphinx Mindbreaker enters, each opponent mills ten cards.

Scholar of the Lost Trove

Flying
When Scholar of the Lost Trove 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.

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 Enigma Thief enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Rebuff the Wicked

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Contaminated Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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