I... did not realize any of those were cards people worried about overmuch. Good thing functional reprints are a thing, eh?
Functional reprints don't at all serve that purpose. The whole point is to re-interpret an existing cardname into a new world like done with Breeding Pool, Sacred Foundry etc.
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Maybe you should realize that WotC is not some infallible institution, but that errors can be made and the Sphinx case is one of them (and Witch Engine is another cases that prove indeed this errata list have fallacies), and errors shouldn't be justified, but reported to be fixed.
con sphinx is highly played. limiting it to just masters style sets, and phyrexian oriented sets, actually scums you - the player.
Dude, in over a decade of Sphinx reprints, only 1 of those times (Amonkhet promo) was reprinted in a standard legal set, and still wasn't standard legal and extremely rare to find. So, facts over 10 years of reprinting proved that Phyrexian or not, that would change absolutely almost nothing on the life of standard players. As phyrexian it can still be reprinted in practically every supplemental sets you can think of - a Commander precon, Conspiracy, Jumpstart, Historic Anthology or anything you can think of, not only "masters" sets, and being very avaialble to players, both papers and online.
See Mirari's Wake, another mythic with relevant power level in EDH card that for flavor reason will never appear in a standard set ever again, and still was reprinted many times to be easily available for casual players too. Saying that Sphinx shouldn't be phyrexian to be more easily printed for standard is just a silly excuse and fact proves otherwise.
there has been zero link between phyrexia and amonkhet. that is a big stretch right now, on top of that a big part of amonkhet's lore would indeed link directly to making a sphinx sacred - ie consecrated. they do not have to be mutually exclusive with phyrexian. i'm not sure you're seeing how easily not linking that creature type to it lends it to being reprinted anywhere it fits without having to make leaps in story. if you make it phyrexian, any plane it appears on now has direct ties to phyrexia that you have to explain.
Repetita Juvant:
2) Who ever said Amonkeht Sphinx necessairly must have story implications? Who ever said the creature type errata of one card must have a retro-active retcon of every single past print of that card? Paladins example shows exactly why forcing a retroactive flavor to every single printing just doesn't make sense (and I'm sure it's not the only case, but that's the most blatant and fitting with the Sphinx case I can think of).
MaRo just admit lately in his blog that WotC planned to make the phyrexia errata only after they created the new Vorinclex. Which means that when they made the Amonkhet Sphinx in their mind that card was simply a Sphinx with a generic name that could fit in every single plane of the multiverse, generic exactly like something thing called Eastern or Western Paladin.
So, that Amonkhet Sphinx is just still a sphinx. there is no issue at all. The special promo printed card will always have simply the word "sphinx" for those maniacal vorthosian purists.
But the same maniacal vorthosian purists should explain me how it is acceptable to not have the Sphinx errata as Phyrexian just because of some very special reprints of that card, and at the same time they don't mind to have the original "Blessed by the hands of Jin-Gitaxias" that got a phyrexian watermark with very compleated appereance, not being phyrexian at all.
The rules said that. Every version of a black-bordered card with a specific name is treated as identical to each other version (with the official text coming from Gatherer). You can't have two different versions of a card with the exact same name (again, in black border).
Im afraid you misunderstood the sense of my question. Obviously mechanically every card with the same name must be the same gameplay wise, but that doesn't mean that flavorfully could not be different, and actually, the Paladins cases, show indeed that the logic of "flavorfully phyrexian in one printing, flavorfully phyrexian in all past printings" is indeed wrong, so WotC actually proved that they really arent that strict on that criteria.
EDIT: Another perfect case to make the Sphinx Phyrexian : Wurmcoil Engine . It was errated as phyrexian and yet, exactly as the Sphinx case, it got a masterpiece reprint in a world that technically shouldn't have phyrexians, like Kaladesh. All this proves that the argument "flavorfully phyrexian in one printing, flavorfully phyrexian in all printings" doesn't hold water and completely fall apart on front of the objective facts that WotC did.
This is an assumption, but the past dictates the future (mostly, will give a recent example why it's "mostly"). When new a new tribe is added in mass, there are usually a few different reasons all at once, such as heavily requested, opens up design space, clues to a not-so-distant future set, keeping things consistent (such as when they announced that if a creature is painted/drawn with wings, it'll have flying, as was the complaints about Blinking Spirit).
So I am betting more than naught that we'll see a return to Mirrodin or a Phyrexian Invasion on another plane w/in the next 2 years.
One case where this reasoning is most likely not the case (which feels more like either a meme, per se, or a goofy 1-off is Scuttletide, as I do not see having any more crab lords will come about (buuuuut, who knows... I may have some deep fried crow in the future; WotC have done Stranger Things...[like make "Contraptions" a real thing years after it was announced as a red herring {that was a joke, I meant to mislabel :rofl:}]).
Functional reprints don't at all serve that purpose. The whole point is to re-interpret an existing cardname into a new world like done with Breeding Pool, Sacred Foundry etc.
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Maybe you should realize that WotC is not some infallible institution, but that errors can be made and the Sphinx case is one of them (and Witch Engine is another cases that prove indeed this errata list have fallacies), and errors shouldn't be justified, but reported to be fixed.
Dude, in over a decade of Sphinx reprints, only 1 of those times (Amonkhet promo) was reprinted in a standard legal set, and still wasn't standard legal and extremely rare to find. So, facts over 10 years of reprinting proved that Phyrexian or not, that would change absolutely almost nothing on the life of standard players. As phyrexian it can still be reprinted in practically every supplemental sets you can think of - a Commander precon, Conspiracy, Jumpstart, Historic Anthology or anything you can think of, not only "masters" sets, and being very avaialble to players, both papers and online.
See Mirari's Wake, another mythic with relevant power level in EDH card that for flavor reason will never appear in a standard set ever again, and still was reprinted many times to be easily available for casual players too. Saying that Sphinx shouldn't be phyrexian to be more easily printed for standard is just a silly excuse and fact proves otherwise.
Repetita Juvant:
2) Who ever said Amonkeht Sphinx necessairly must have story implications? Who ever said the creature type errata of one card must have a retro-active retcon of every single past print of that card? Paladins example shows exactly why forcing a retroactive flavor to every single printing just doesn't make sense (and I'm sure it's not the only case, but that's the most blatant and fitting with the Sphinx case I can think of).
MaRo just admit lately in his blog that WotC planned to make the phyrexia errata only after they created the new Vorinclex. Which means that when they made the Amonkhet Sphinx in their mind that card was simply a Sphinx with a generic name that could fit in every single plane of the multiverse, generic exactly like something thing called Eastern or Western Paladin.
So, that Amonkhet Sphinx is just still a sphinx. there is no issue at all. The special promo printed card will always have simply the word "sphinx" for those maniacal vorthosian purists.
But the same maniacal vorthosian purists should explain me how it is acceptable to not have the Sphinx errata as Phyrexian just because of some very special reprints of that card, and at the same time they don't mind to have the original "Blessed by the hands of Jin-Gitaxias" that got a phyrexian watermark with very compleated appereance, not being phyrexian at all.
Im afraid you misunderstood the sense of my question. Obviously mechanically every card with the same name must be the same gameplay wise, but that doesn't mean that flavorfully could not be different, and actually, the Paladins cases, show indeed that the logic of "flavorfully phyrexian in one printing, flavorfully phyrexian in all past printings" is indeed wrong, so WotC actually proved that they really arent that strict on that criteria.
EDIT: Another perfect case to make the Sphinx Phyrexian : Wurmcoil Engine . It was errated as phyrexian and yet, exactly as the Sphinx case, it got a masterpiece reprint in a world that technically shouldn't have phyrexians, like Kaladesh. All this proves that the argument "flavorfully phyrexian in one printing, flavorfully phyrexian in all printings" doesn't hold water and completely fall apart on front of the objective facts that WotC did.
This is an assumption, but the past dictates the future (mostly, will give a recent example why it's "mostly"). When new a new tribe is added in mass, there are usually a few different reasons all at once, such as heavily requested, opens up design space, clues to a not-so-distant future set, keeping things consistent (such as when they announced that if a creature is painted/drawn with wings, it'll have flying, as was the complaints about Blinking Spirit).
So I am betting more than naught that we'll see a return to Mirrodin or a Phyrexian Invasion on another plane w/in the next 2 years.
One case where this reasoning is most likely not the case (which feels more like either a meme, per se, or a goofy 1-off is Scuttletide, as I do not see having any more crab lords will come about (buuuuut, who knows... I may have some deep fried crow in the future; WotC have done Stranger Things...[like make "Contraptions" a real thing years after it was announced as a red herring {that was a joke, I meant to mislabel :rofl:}]).
If this is true it would make the Sphinx errata even more sadder as it already is.