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Commander

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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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Copy

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Zygon Infiltrator
Body-print —
: Tap another target creature and put a stun counter on it. This creature becomes a copy of that creature for as long as that creature remains tapped. Activate only as a sorcery. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Creature - Soldier Shapeshifter Alien
Zygon Infiltrator (who) 63

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Counters

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Daze
You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Daze (mb2) 26

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Creature

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Appa, Steadfast Guardian
Flash
Flying
When Appa enters, airbend any number of other target nonland permanents you control. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.
Legendary Creature - Ally Bison
Appa, Steadfast Guardian (tla) 10
Petra Sphinx
: Target player chooses a card name, then reveals the top card of their library. If that card has the chosen name, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, the player puts it into their graveyard.
Creature - Sphinx
Petra Sphinx (chr) 10

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Draw

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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
Coastal Piracy
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Enchantment
Coastal Piracy (tle) 156
Conundrum Sphinx
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, each player chooses a card name. Then each player reveals the top card of their library. If the card a player revealed has the name they chose, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, that player puts it on the bottom of their library.
Creature - Sphinx
Conundrum Sphinx (c18) 84
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
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 - Sphinx
Enigma Sphinx (c18) 178
Errant and Giada
Flash
Flying
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast spells with flash or flying from the top of your library.
Legendary Creature - Human Angel
Errant and Giada (mom) 224
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
Gitaxian Probe
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (mb2) 28
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
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
Scroll Rack
,
: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.
Artifact
Scroll Rack (cmr) 337
Sphinx of Clear Skies
Flying, ward

Domain — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Clear Skies (dmu) 67
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 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) 73
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391
Wizard Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchantment - Class
Wizard Class (blc) 112

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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 - Sphinx
Magister Sphinx (2x2) 247

Finisher

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Land

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Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tla) 283
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tla) 282
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (fic) 438

Land

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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 - Sphinx Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
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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Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (fic) 349
Misdirection
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
Instant
Misdirection (plst) DDT-15
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (fic) 361

Protection

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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 (eoc) 53
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play historic lands and cast historic spells from the top of your library. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
: Add
.
Legendary Artifact
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass (acr) 15
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
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
Sapphire Medallion
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (fic) 364
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (fic) 367
Verge Rangers
First strike
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as an opponent controls more lands than you, you may play lands from the top of your library. (You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)
Creature - Human Scout Ranger
Verge Rangers (dsc) 108

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Recursion

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Metamorphosis Fanatic
Lifelink
When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 21
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (fic) 282
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (tdc) 279
Assimilation Aegis
When this Equipment enters, exile up to one target creature until this Equipment leaves the battlefield.
Whenever this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, for as long as this Equipment remains attached to it, that creature becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with this Equipment.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Assimilation Aegis (otj) 192
Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Blood Money
Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.
Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Cleansing Nova
Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.
Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (fic) 235
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Devastation Tide
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sorcery
Devastation Tide (ltc) 189
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
Into the Flood Maw
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Instant
Into the Flood Maw (blb) 52
Trap the Trespassers
Secret council — Each player secretly votes for a creature you don't control, then those votes are revealed. For each creature with one or more votes, put that many stun counters on it, then tap it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Instant
Trap the Trespassers (ltc) 427

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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

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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
Sphinx Summoner (2xm) 220
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

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Maybeboard

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Chasm Skulker
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Horror Squid
Chasm Skulker (fic) 262
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
Ormos, Archive Keeper
Flying
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos.
, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
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
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
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 the Steel Wind
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Steel Wind (mb2) 89
The Watcher in the Water
The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.
Legendary Creature - Kraken
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 526
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

16 pips - 12 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
58 pips - 37 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
17 pips - 13 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 5 cards
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