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Commander

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The Scarab God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - God
The Scarab God (drc) 120

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Cheater

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Illusionist's Bracers
Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260
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 - Sphinx
Master of Predicaments (m15) 67
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
,
: Scry 2.
Whenever you scry or surveil, look at the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Do this only once each turn. (Look at the card after you scry or surveil.)
Legendary Artifact
Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong (tla) 259
Rings of Brighthearth
Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay
. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
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

Cheater

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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 (fic) 318
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
Curator of Mysteries
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Sphinx
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Defiler of Dreams
Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
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 - Sphinx Phyrexian
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
Flying
If you would scry a number of cards, draw that many cards instead.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
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
Prognostic Sphinx
Flying
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.
Creature - Sphinx
Prognostic Sphinx (dsc) 124
Sandstone Oracle
Flying
When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sandstone Oracle (cmm) 406
Serum Sovereign
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Serum Sovereign (one) 405
Sphinx of Enlightenment
Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Enlightenment (j25) 364
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
Sphinx of Foresight (rna) 55
Sphinx of Lost Truths
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Lost Truths (zen) 69
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
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
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
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 - Sphinx
Vexing Sphinx (dmr) 297
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Conduit Pylons
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Land - Desert
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Dakmor Salvage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Land
Dakmor Salvage (eoc) 156
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (plst) OTC-282
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (ima) 234
Drownyard Temple
: Add
.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Land
Drownyard Temple (tdc) 359
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (otc) 293
Fetid Pools
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp
Fetid Pools (otc) 296
Hidden Grotto
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (war) 253
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (tmc) 70
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (fic) 419
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tmc) 76
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sos) 276
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (mic) 183
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 (fdn) 697

Land

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Mass disruption

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Elvish Mariner
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.
Whenever you scry, tap up to X target nonland permanents, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
Creature - Elf Pilot
Elvish Mariner (ltr) 283

Mass disruption

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Mill

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Marauding Sphinx
Flying, vigilance, ward

Whenever you commit a crime, surveil 2. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290
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

Mill

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Ramp

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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 - Sphinx Detective
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
Deranged Assistant
, Mill a card: Add
. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Deranged Assistant (inr) 61
Greedy Freebooter
When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Greedy Freebooter (lci) 109
Pit Automaton
Defender
: Add
. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
,
: When you next activate an exhaust ability that isn't a mana ability this turn, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Pit Automaton (dft) 238
Shambling Ghast
When this creature dies, choose one —
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Zombie
Shambling Ghast (j25) 124
Skirge Familiar
Flying
Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Imp Phyrexian
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Soldevi Machinist
: Add
. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.
Creature - Human Wizard Artificer
Soldevi Machinist (ice) 102
The Enigma Jewel
The Enigma Jewel enters tapped.
: Add
. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Craft with four or more nonlands with activated abilities
(
, Exile this artifact, Exile the four or more from among other permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Legendary Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55
Training Grounds
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost
less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (fic) 372

Ramp

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Recursion

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Cursecloth Wrappings
Zombies you control get +1/+1.
: Target creature card in your graveyard gains embalm until end of turn. The embalm cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile that card and pay its embalm cost: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie in addition to its other types and has no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
Artifact
Cursecloth Wrappings (dft) 81
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
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 51

Recursion

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Targeted Disruption

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Aven Heartstabber
Flying
As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has deathtouch.
When this creature dies, mill two cards, then draw a card.
Creature - Bird Assassin
Aven Heartstabber (snc) 166
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 - Sphinx Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
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 - Sphinx
Dazzling Sphinx (otc) 93
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 - Nightmare Sphinx
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
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 - Sphinx
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78
Orzhov Enforcer
Deathtouch
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)
Creature - Human Rogue
Orzhov Enforcer (rvr) 87
Riddlemaster Sphinx
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Sphinx
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m20) 317
Sinister Concierge
When this creature dies, you may exile it and put three time counters on it. If you do, exile up to one target creature and put three time counters on it. Each card exiled this way that doesn't have suspend gains suspend. (For each card with suspend, its owner removes a time counter from it at the beginning of their upkeep. When the last is removed, they may cast it without paying its mana cost. Those creature spells have haste.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Sinister Concierge (ncc) 30
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
Sphinx of the Final Word (fdn) 597
Vortex Elemental
: Put this creature and each creature blocking or blocked by it on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle.
: Target creature blocks this creature this turn if able.
Creature - Elemental
Vortex Elemental (bng) 56
Zombie Master
Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "
: Regenerate this permanent."
Creature - Zombie
Zombie Master (drc) 46

Targeted Disruption

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Zombie Anthem

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Bladestitched Skaab
Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Bladestitched Skaab (inr) 231
Cemetery Reaper
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie
Cemetery Reaper (drc) 87
Death-Priest of Myrkul
Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.
Creature - Cleric Tiefling
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
Diregraf Captain
Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Diregraf Captain (scd) 224
Dreadhorde Invasion
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.
Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (drc) 91
Gleaming Overseer
When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Zombie tokens you control have hexproof and menace.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Gleaming Overseer (drc) 116
Havengul Runebinder
,
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.
Creature - Human Wizard
Havengul Runebinder (mic) 101
Liliana's Devotee
Zombies you control get +1/+0.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay
. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Human Warlock
Liliana's Devotee (scd) 85
Lord of the Accursed
Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
,
: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Accursed (drc) 95
Vizier of the Scorpion
When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Vizier of the Scorpion (scd) 119

Zombie Anthem

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