Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign 4UU
Flying
Sphinx spells you cast cost 2 less to cast.
Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or another Sphinx enters the battlefield under your control, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent seperates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard
4/4
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras. Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power. Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza. Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall. Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana. Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die. Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
"We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side."
"Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?"
"Yes."
"So shouldn't we—"
"No."
'Sphinx spells you cast cost 2 less to cast.' on a card that costs 6 mana to cast...
Gameplay-wise, it's there to finally lead your janky, casual sphinx edh-tribal deck and that's about it, nothing else to see here. What irritates me the most is how come this thing is NOT a sphinx goat, I mean just look at it!
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
'Sphinx spells you cast cost 2 less to cast.' on a card that costs 6 mana to cast...
The whole point I guess is that you can loop sphinxes with this in play. If every 3-originally-5-mana sphinx gets you another 3-originally-5-mana sphinx, you can start playing two sphinxes a turn. Or yo can hold up Counterspell mana while putting big threats into play. You know, just in case the 4/4 for 6 gets to live until your next turn. And if it does not, you at least got a super-Impulse off of it!
Legendary monoblue sphinx that doesn't suck, my prayers have been heard! Although I was just getting fond of the idea of letting Kefnet lead my Sphinx deck in EDH...
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Good draw in multiples. The second one costs you 2UU and you get two mini Fact or Fiction triggers. Leave the original and beatdowns for 4 after you most likely draw four. I could see this being a finisher in Control decks due to the sheer selective card advantage of top decking the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th copies. It has to compete with Gearhulk, which has a faster clock, flash, and more spell versatility though, so, it might never see play as that finisher.
Also worth mentioning that Curator of Mysteries would become a 4/4 flier for UU. Lot of other Sphinxes are 5 CMC. While this guy is not efficiently costed, he definitely makes the rest of the Sphinxes very efficiently costed.
Eh, it's fine that they're doing Sphinx tribal and support EDH in regular sets and the abilites are cool and all, but ... mono-U? I would want my sphinx commander to be WUB at least.
Good draw in multiples. The second one costs you 2UU and you get two mini Fact or Fiction triggers. Leave the original and beatdowns for 4 after you most likely draw four. I could see this being a finisher in Control decks due to the sheer selective card advantage of top decking the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th copies. It has to compete with Gearhulk, which has a faster clock, flash, and more spell versatility though, so, it might never see play as that finisher.
Also worth mentioning that Curator of Mysteries would become a 4/4 flier for UU. Lot of other Sphinxes are 5 CMC. While this guy is not efficiently costed, he definitely makes the rest of the Sphinxes very efficiently costed.
I'm amazed there hasn't been eight posts going "Maybe one of the decks in this years commander is Sphinx tribal", bravo folks.
As for the card itself, 6 mana does seem a little high for this. 5 seems right for the effect and a 4/4 or for 6 it could have been a bit bigger than it is, but overall I do like this card. The sphinx tribal support does seem a tad tacked on, but I have no problem with it.
As for the rest, this is obviously meant to be a Sphinx tribal Commander. Not sure why anyone would be miffed at it.
Well, if you'd followed the thread (or searched for Sphinxes - Sphinxii? (Googles) - apparently Sphinges) you'd realise that a lot of good Sphinges are white/blue and a number of the ones from Alara are Esper. Thus, it's really, really poor as a Sphinx Commander.
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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign 4UU
Flying
Sphinx spells you cast cost 2 less to cast.
Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or another Sphinx enters the battlefield under your control, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent seperates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard
4/4
UBRJeleva, Nephalias Scourge: ...and the storm arrivedRBU
BGHapatra, Vizier of PoisonsGB
WAvacyn, Angel of Hope: Avy, Baby!W
Mono blue EDH tribal...probably doesn't want a lot of heavy critters, but I'll still take it.
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
"Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?"
"Yes."
"So shouldn't we—"
"No."
- From Canyon Minotaur
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Gameplay-wise, it's there to finally lead your janky, casual sphinx edh-tribal deck and that's about it, nothing else to see here. What irritates me the most is how come this thing is NOT a sphinx goat, I mean just look at it!
Edit: Abolutely nuts with Argent Sphinx plus all the artifact based ramp that you`re going to need anyway.
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The whole point I guess is that you can loop sphinxes with this in play. If every 3-originally-5-mana sphinx gets you another 3-originally-5-mana sphinx, you can start playing two sphinxes a turn. Or yo can hold up Counterspell mana while putting big threats into play. You know, just in case the 4/4 for 6 gets to live until your next turn. And if it does not, you at least got a super-Impulse off of it!
-Plateau, troll philosopher
Also worth mentioning that Curator of Mysteries would become a 4/4 flier for UU. Lot of other Sphinxes are 5 CMC. While this guy is not efficiently costed, he definitely makes the rest of the Sphinxes very efficiently costed.
As for the rest, this is obviously meant to be a Sphinx tribal Commander. Not sure why anyone would be miffed at it.
Except 'Legendary'?
You would sacrifice one but still get both the original and 2nd copies trigger.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
Boring simply because it doesnt do anything fancy new, and its terrible small for its manacost.
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As for the card itself, 6 mana does seem a little high for this. 5 seems right for the effect and a 4/4 or for 6 it could have been a bit bigger than it is, but overall I do like this card. The sphinx tribal support does seem a tad tacked on, but I have no problem with it.
http://ancientegypt.wikia.com/wiki/Crioshinx
Like serpopard, taken directly from the Egyptian mythology.
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UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
Well, if you'd followed the thread (or searched for Sphinxes - Sphinxii? (Googles) - apparently Sphinges) you'd realise that a lot of good Sphinges are white/blue and a number of the ones from Alara are Esper. Thus, it's really, really poor as a Sphinx Commander.