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Budget Sphinxes
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $96.90
Salt sum: 42.4
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Commander

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} 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.

Creature
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign (hou) 52

Commander

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (nec) 144
Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped. As this artifact enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (2x2) 301
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 (c18) 200
Decanter of Endless Water

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

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (c17) 53
Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (ddp) 65
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (6ed) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c16) 272
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346
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 (clb) 344

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Creature

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Amoeboid Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Creature
Amoeboid Changeling (lrw) 51
Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Creature
Arbiter of the Ideal (bng) 31
Argent Sphinx

Flying Metalcraft — {U}: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Argent Sphinx (mm2) 41
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
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (cmm) 373
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
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
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
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 (c20) 109
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
Dazzling Sphinx (c21) 25
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) 393
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 (grn) 38
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
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 {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, 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
Glyph Keeper (akh) 55
Goliath Sphinx

Flying

Creature
Goliath Sphinx (wwk) 28
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
Guardian of Tazeem (bfz) 78
Marauding Sphinx

Flying, vigilance, ward {2} 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
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
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
Master of Predicaments (m15) 67
Mothdust Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Mothdust Changeling (mor) 42
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 (ths) 60
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
Riddlemaster Sphinx (m19) 287
Serra Sphinx

Flying, vigilance

Creature
Serra Sphinx (plc) 62
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (c21) 264
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
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.

Creature
Sphinx of Jwar Isle (zen) 68
Sphinx of Lost Truths

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

Creature
Sphinx of Lost Truths (zen) 69
Sphinx of Magosi

Flying {2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Sphinx of Magosi (cn2) 122
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
Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) All lands are Islands in addition to their other types. Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature
Stormtide Leviathan (m15) 80
Stunt Double

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Stunt Double (cn2) 38
Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (akh) 74

Creature

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Enchantment

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Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (emn) 65
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment 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.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (khm) 73

Enchantment

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Instant

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (gtc) 29
Blink of an Eye

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Blink of an Eye (dom) 46
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (akh) 211
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (ktk) 36
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (8ed) 76
Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell.

Instant
Forbid (exo) 35
Geistwave

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you controlled that permanent, draw a card.

Instant
Geistwave (mid) 56
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (fem) 18a
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dmu) 58
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (nec) 95
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant
Wash Away (vow) 87

Instant

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Land

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (eld) 242
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (hou) 186
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c16) 309
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 (eld) 247
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (m19) 254

Land

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Sorcery

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Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Aether Gale (c21) 113
Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (uma) 79
Walk the Aeons

Buyback—Sacrifice three Islands. (You may sacrifice three Islands in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Walk the Aeons (tsp) 93

Sorcery

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