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Scheming Sphinxes
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $750.28
Salt sum: 45.44
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Commander

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Raffine, Scheming Seer

Flying, ward {1} 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.)

Creature
Raffine, Scheming Seer (snc) 213

Commander

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Cycling

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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

Cycling

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Protection

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Keep Safe

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Instant
Keep Safe (iko) 56
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
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

Protection

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Stax

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Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (m20) 107
Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery. +1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. −3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Time Raveler (rvr) 232

Stax

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Anthem

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Always Watching

Nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Always Watching (plst) SOI-1

Anthem

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
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
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Consecrated Sphinx

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

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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 Trawler

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

Creature
Dream Trawler (thb) 214
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.)

Creature
Eligeth, Crossroads Augur (cmr) 66
Enigma Sphinx

Flying When this creature 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.)

Creature Artifact
Enigma Sphinx (c18) 178
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.)

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Sphinx (mh2) 195
Inspired Sphinx

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

Creature
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
Isperia, Supreme Judge

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

Creature
Isperia, Supreme Judge (c20) 217
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
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 (otc) 107
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 (afc) 90
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
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 this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
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
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (mkc) 119
Windreader Sphinx

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

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64
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.

Creature
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign (cmm) 363

Draw

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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 (otc) 252
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Copy Artifact

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Copy Artifact (3ed) 53
Decanter of Endless Water

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

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (otc) 257
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Enchantment
Omniscience (m19) 65
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Semblance Anvil

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Semblance Anvil (som) 201
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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Artifact
Spectral Searchlight (cmm) 411
Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3} 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.)

Creature
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (dmr) 392
Warden of Evos Isle

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

Creature
Warden of Evos Isle (scd) 63
Watcher of the Spheres

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227
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 (lcc) 317

Ramp

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Tutor

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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 Summoner (2xm) 220

Tutor

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Finisher

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Magister Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

Creature Artifact
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247
Medomai the Ageless

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

Creature
Medomai the Ageless (ths) 196

Finisher

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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
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
Sharuum the Hegemon

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

Creature Artifact
Sharuum the Hegemon (brc) 128

Recursion

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Copy

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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

Copy

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Contaminated Aquifer

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Contaminated Aquifer (dmu) 245
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (otc) 290
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (otc) 293
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 436
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Idyllic Grange

({T}: Add {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Plains. When this land enters untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Land
Idyllic Grange (eld) 246
Irrigated Farmland

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

Land
Irrigated Farmland (mkc) 267
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (und) 90
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (otc) 301
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Mistvault Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (brc) 189
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 (mkc) 277
Paliano, the High City

Reveal this card as you draft it. The player to your right chooses a color, you choose another color, then the player to your left chooses a third color. {T}: Add one mana of any color chosen as you drafted cards named Paliano, the High City.

Land
Paliano, the High City (cns) 65
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (und) 88
Polluted Delta

{T}, 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
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (mkc) 281
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Seachrome Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Seachrome Coast (one) 258
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Sunlit Marsh

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Sunlit Marsh (dmu) 257
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (und) 92
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.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (otc) 328
Temple of Silence

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.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (otc) 333
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (otc) 339
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291
Witch's Cottage

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

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Removal

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Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Deadly Rollick

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

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 695
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
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 (mkc) 101
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
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Jester's Cap

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Artifact
Jester's Cap (dmr) 227
Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Render Silent (dgm) 96
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77

Removal

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Creature

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Sphinx of New Prahv

Flying, vigilance Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

Creature
Sphinx of New Prahv (rvr) 227

Creature

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Mill

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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
Watcher of Hours

Flying, ward {3} Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1. Suspend 6—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} 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
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25

Mill

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Sac Outlet

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Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

Artifact
Time Sieve (plst) ARB-31

Sac Outlet

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 17 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
73 pips - 46 cards
28 mana - 27 cards
13 pips - 12 cards
25 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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