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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59
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

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35
Jelenn Sphinx
Flying, vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, other attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Sphinx
Jelenn Sphinx (bbd) 224

Anthem

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Artifact

Qty: 1 Price: $13.99
Cosmic Cube
Ward

Whenever you attack, look at the top six cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them with mana value less than or equal to the greatest power among attacking creatures you control without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Artifact
Cosmic Cube (msh) 245

Artifact

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Creature

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Cloudreader Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Sphinx
Cloudreader Sphinx (plst) DOM-47

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 21 Price: $261.63
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (tle) 155
Brainsurge
Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 399
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.
Sorcery
Brilliant Ultimatum (ala) 159
Buster Sword
Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Buster Sword (fin) 255
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (h2r) 2
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
Eyes Everywhere
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
: Exchange control of this enchantment and target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.
Enchantment
Eyes Everywhere (rvr) 43
Geist of the Archives
Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Spirit
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
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
Modify Memory
Exchange control of two target creatures controlled by different players. If you control neither creature, draw three cards.
Sorcery
Modify Memory (clb) 83
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
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.
Sorcery
Portent (dsc) 74
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
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
Quantum Riddler
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead.
Warp
Creature - Sphinx
Quantum Riddler (eoe) 72
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
Sensei's Divining Top
: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
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
Soothsaying
: Shuffle your library.
: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Enchantment
Soothsaying (plst) MMQ-104
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
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

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Evasion

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Aqueous Form
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Enchantment - Aura
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
Artful Dodge
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Artful Dodge (dka) 27
Cloak of Invisibility
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has phasing and can't be blocked except by Walls. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
Enchantment - Aura
Cloak of Invisibility (mir) 58
Thassa, God of the Sea
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Thassa, God of the Sea (lcc) 176
Twins of Discord
Whenever you attack, choose odd or even. Creatures with mana value of that quality can't block this turn. (Zero is even.)
Each other colorless creature you control has bloodthirst 2. (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Twins of Discord (m3c) 37

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 5 Price: $31.31
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
Capture of Jingzhou
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Capture of Jingzhou (cmm) 79
Goliath Sphinx
Flying
Creature - Sphinx
Goliath Sphinx (cmm) 99
Magister Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
Temporal Manipulation
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Temporal Manipulation (plst) UMA-77

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Land

Qty: 40 Price: $21.96
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 235
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
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
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (msc) 248
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.
: Add
.
Land
Halimar Depths (dsc) 282
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (msh) 290
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (soc) 382
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 (msc) 254
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (msh) 287
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (msc) 257
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (soc) 400
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (msc) 271
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (msh) 291

Land

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Landfall

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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

Landfall

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Mill

Qty: 3 Price: $4.33
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
Mystic Redaction
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
Mystic Redaction (mh2) 53
Sphinx Mindbreaker
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent mills ten cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx Mindbreaker (thb) 290

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Protection

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Champion's Helm
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Champion's Helm (fic) 337
Darksteel Plate
Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Darksteel Plate (fic) 342
Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (soc) 146
Glaring Spotlight
Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Glaring Spotlight (gtc) 229
Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (msc) 151
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

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 5 Price: $9.01
Gilded Lotus
: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Gilded Lotus (msc) 199
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
Obelisk of Esper
: Add
,
, or
.
Artifact
Obelisk of Esper (c13) 250
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 214
Sonic Screwdriver
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Untap another target artifact.
,
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Sonic Screwdriver (who) 184

Ramp

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Recursion

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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

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 5 Price: $12.75
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Enigma Thief
Prowl
(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 - Rogue Sphinx
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
In Garruk's Wake
Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.
Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (msc) 141
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (msc) 143

Removal

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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 - Sphinx
Dazzling Sphinx (otc) 93
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
Sphinx Ambassador (m10) 73

Theft

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29
Manifold Key
,
: Untap another target artifact.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Manifold Key (clb) 319

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Deck Info

Deck stats

13 pips - 12 cards
18 mana - 16 cards
61 pips - 41 cards
29 mana - 27 cards
8 pips - 6 cards
16 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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