Island

Swamp

Plains

Sphinxes drink from the mystic meres of Serra's realm, where their keen eyes watch reflections of what is and what is yet to come.

Serra Sphinx

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.

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.)

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sharuum the Hegemon

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

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.)

Alhammarret, High Arbiter

Flying
As Alhammarret enters, each opponent reveals their hand. You choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).

"I do not understand the future I see: the guilds subverted, the world at war, armies bent to a cruel conqueror's will."

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.

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.

Diluvian Primordial

Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

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.

Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

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.

"Your mind is too filled with foolish concerns to hear the subtle whispers that the breeze brings."

Windreader Sphinx

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

Azor, the Lawbringer

Flying
When Azor enters, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{U}. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

Magister Sphinx

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

Prognostic Sphinx

Flying
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

"It soars on the winds of dreams."
—Mu Yanling

Celestial Messenger

Flash (You may cast this card any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Yanling planeswalker.

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.

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

Sphinx of Magosi

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

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.

Sphinx Sovereign

Sphinx's Herald

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

{2}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"You've never considered the implications of dealing with another telepath, Jace."

Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
{5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"Time is like the Luxa River—though it flows in one direction, it can be diverted."

Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Champion of Wits

When this creature enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards.
Eternalize {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 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Her prophecies amaze her even as she speaks them.

Omenspeaker

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.)

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

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

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Ingot

"It reflects the purity of Mirrodin-that-was."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

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

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

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.)

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Sphinx's Decree

Each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.

Counterspell

"How easily your flames are quenched."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Sphinx's Revelation

"Like ribbons of wind and wisdom the coatls fly, twisting mystery into truth, shaping the clouds to suit their inscrutable will."
—Huatli

Favorable Winds

Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

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.)

Serum Visions

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

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

The waters that give the River Herald merfolk their name are sacred to their culture; they do not abide invaders to sail upon them.

River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

"Ghirapur's gremlin population poses a threat to the infrastructure of the fairgrounds. Threats must be eliminated."
—Sram, senior edificer

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Soldier

When Abdel Adrian enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

"Always a welcome sight breaking through the clouds."
—Talrand, sky summoner

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

The king went off to find himself. Imagine his terror when he succeeded.

Mercurial Pretender

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it has "{2}{U}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand."

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Emry enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Accurate information is a precious commodity in times of war.

Mirran Spy

Flying
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may untap target creature.

"It's a beautiful vision. Discarded debris is reborn as a singular entity."
—Urabrask the Hidden

Rusted Slasher

Sacrifice an artifact: Regenerate this creature.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

Thermal Navigator

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

You can always tell the evil one by the dagger he's sticking in you.

Evil Twin

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{U}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature."

Sakashima's Protege

Flash
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.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.

"Share your darkest secret and the Mirror will reveal your soul's essence."
—Ceri, royal mirrorkeeper

Mirrormade

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact or enchantment on the battlefield.

He knows your strengths, your weaknesses, and the shape of that unfortunate birthmark on your backside.

Clone

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

Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

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.

Identity Thief

Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile another target nontoken creature. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

She talks using riddles her disciples alone can unravel.

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.

The Gitrog Monster

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land.
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.

He knows exactly where he's going and exactly how he isn't getting there.

Flubs, the Fool

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card if you have no cards in hand. Otherwise, discard a card.

Tom Bombadil

As long as there are four or more lore counters among Sagas you control, Tom Bombadil has hexproof and indestructible.
Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control resolves, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a Saga card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Both his rank and his scars were earned in single combat against a cave bear.

Surrak Dragonclaw

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Other creatures you control have trample.

Urza, Lord High Artificer

Construct

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Indestructible
Whenever Kotis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top X cards of their library, where X is the amount of damage dealt. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Treasure

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Haste
When Cloud enters, attach up to one target Equipment you control to it.
Whenever Cloud attacks, draw a card for each equipped attacking creature you control. Then if Cloud has power 7 or greater, create two Treasure tokens.

"No more lurking in the shallows. We ride!"

Plagon, Lord of the Beach

When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
{W/U}: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.

Szadek, Lord of Secrets

Flying
If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.

Teval, the Balanced Scale

Zombie Druid

Flying
Whenever Teval attacks, mill three cards. Then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

Copy

Flying, ward {2}
Whenever another nontoken Dragon you control enters, create a token that's a copy of it, except the token isn't legendary.

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Ziatora's second-in-command has a habit of appearing when and where her enemies least expect her.

Haste
Whenever a creature you control with haste attacks, create a tapped Treasure token.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste.
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

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