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Commander

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Sharuum the Hegemon
Flying
When Sharuum enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sharuum the Hegemon (ala) 194

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Anthem

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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

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Copy

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Skill Borrower
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, this creature has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)
Creature Artifact - Human Wizard
Skill Borrower (ala) 56

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Creature

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Esper Stormblade
As long as you control another multicolored permanent, this creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Creature Artifact - Wizard Vedalken
Esper Stormblade (arb) 132
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
(
, 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 - Sphinx
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
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
Windwright Mage
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
This creature has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.
Creature Artifact - Human Wizard
Windwright Mage (ala) 208

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Draw

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Atemsis, All-Seeing
Flying
,
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Atemsis, All-Seeing (m20) 46
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 345
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
Drown in Dreams
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target player draws X cards.
• Target player mills twice X cards.
Instant
Drown in Dreams (sld) 1668
Elenda and Azor
Flying, ward

Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay
. 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.
Legendary Creature - Knight Vampire Sphinx
Elenda and Azor (moc) 6
Esper Charm
Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.
Instant
Esper Charm (plst) C18-179
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
Ever-Watching Threshold
Whenever an opponent attacks, if they attacked you and/or a planeswalker you control, draw a card.
Enchantment
Ever-Watching Threshold (scd) 50
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
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 (gk2) 1
Mask of Riddles
Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Riddles (ncc) 347
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228
Staggering Insight
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Staggering Insight (scd) 246
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
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thassa's Oracle (sld) 1280
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
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.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign (cmm) 363

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Finisher

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Approach of the Second Sun
If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.
Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Arcane Sanctum (drc) 146
Archway of Innovation
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: 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
.)
Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (2x2) 400
Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (clu) 230
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
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 (mh3) 218
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Endless Sands
: Add
.
,
: Exile target creature you control.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return each creature card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Land - Desert
Endless Sands (eos) 15
Esper Panorama
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Esper Panorama (ncc) 399
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (eoc) 162
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (eoe) 269
Meandering River
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Meandering River (scd) 308
Meticulous Archive
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Island
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Obscura Storefront
When this land 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.
Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (eoe) 267
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Port of Karfell
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Land
Port of Karfell (mkc) 280
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.
: Add
or
.
Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (tdc) 384
Raffine's Tower
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Swamp
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Seat of the Synod
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (eoc) 176
Sejiri Refuge
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sejiri Refuge (scd) 317
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tdc) 398
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sld) 890
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (eoe) 272
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
Tranquil Cove
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Tranquil Cove (tdm) 270
Vault of Whispers
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (j25) 780
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (eoe) 261

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Mill

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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

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Protection

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Jubilant Skybonder
Flying
Creatures you control with flying have "Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost
more to cast."
Creature - Human Wizard
Jubilant Skybonder (scd) 232
Sphinx of the Steel Wind
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (mb2) 89

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (ecc) 55
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
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 (drc) 125
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fieldmist Borderpost
You may pay
and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Artifact
Fieldmist Borderpost (arc) 85
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
White spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost
more to cast.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 221
Obelisk of Esper
: Add
,
, or
.
Artifact
Obelisk of Esper (c13) 250
Sapphire Medallion
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 349
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Stormscape Familiar
Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Bird
Stormscape Familiar (pls) 36
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Flying, ward

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.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10
Urza's Incubator
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297

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Recursion

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Another Chance
You may mill two cards. Then return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Instant
Another Chance (lci) 90
Dance of the Manse
Return up to X target artifact and/or non-Aura enchantment cards each with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 6 or more, those permanents are 4/4 creatures in addition to their other types.
Sorcery
Dance of the Manse (sld) 2104
Karmic Guide
Flying, protection from black
Echo
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Angel Spirit
Karmic Guide (sld) 1911
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 - Sphinx
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
Stitch Together
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Stitch Together (fic) 286

Recursion

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Removal

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Countersquall (uma) 198
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (eoc) 45
Time Wipe
Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.
Sorcery
Time Wipe (tdc) 308
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

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Sac Outlet

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Time Sieve
, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.
Artifact
Time Sieve (sld) 1671

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Sorcery

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Bloodline Bidding
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Bloodline Bidding (ecl) 91
Space-Time Anomaly
Target player mills cards equal to your life total.
Sorcery
Space-Time Anomaly (eoe) 229

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Stax

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Ethersworn Canonist
Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.
Creature Artifact - Human Cleric
Ethersworn Canonist (2xm) 14

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Theft

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Sen Triplets
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. This turn, that player can't cast spells or activate abilities and plays with their hand revealed. You may play lands and cast spells from that player's hand this turn.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Human Wizard
Sen Triplets (2xm) 218

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Tokens

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Efficient Construction
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Efficient Construction (cmm) 88
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

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Tutor

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Scour for Scrap
Choose one or both —
• Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Scour for Scrap (eoe) 73
Sphinx Summoner
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand. then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx Summoner (2xm) 220

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Sideboard

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Arsenal Thresher
As this creature enters, you may reveal any number of other artifact cards from your hand. This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each card revealed this way.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Arsenal Thresher (hop) 96
Circle of Protection: Blue
: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Enchantment
Circle of Protection: Blue (5ed) 18
Don't Make a Sound
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If they do, 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
Don't Make a Sound (dsk) 49
Lofty Denial
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays
instead.
Instant
Lofty Denial (m21) 56
Moorland Haunt
: Add
.
,
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Land
Moorland Haunt (scd) 310
Riddleform
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may have this enchantment become a 3/3 Sphinx creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Enchantment
Riddleform (m21) 64
Sphinx of New Prahv
Flying, vigilance
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost
more to cast.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of New Prahv (rvr) 227
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
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (tdc) 333
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Vein Ripper
Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Assassin
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110
Watcher of Hours
Flying, ward

Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1.
Suspend 6—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with six 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. It has haste.)
Creature - Sphinx
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25
Winged Words
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Winged Words (j25) 393

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Deck Info

Deck stats

30 pips - 26 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
62 pips - 47 cards
33 mana - 32 cards
22 pips - 20 cards
17 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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