Magister Sphinx

Artifact Creature — Sphinx

Flying

When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

Combos

• Bolas's Citadel + Magister Sphinx + Sorin Markov

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

legendofa on

2 weeks ago

Ferropede and Thrull Parasite are a little fragile, but they're very good at keeping finality counters away. Magister Sphinx has a big mana cost, and it's a niche meta card, but can help reign in someone's life total if it's getting out of control, or just set up a lethal attack. Sharuum the Hegemon could be fun here.

I'm not sure you're getting full value out of Altar of the Wretched  ^Flip. What's the intent here? You get one sacrifice, some draw, some self-mill, and a potentially big but not especially versatile creature. And the creatures in the deck are generally small to mid-sized, so you have to dump a lot of future value into what's basically a big-but-not-huge beater. Am I missing something?

With no Rooms, Keys to the House isn't any better than Wanderer's Twig or Traveler's Amulet. Armillary Sphere, Moonsilver Key or Wayfarer's Bauble might be better--a little more expensive to use, but more utility.

Stoic Rebuttal is on-theme, but Counterspell is just better.

There's kind of a Thopter token subtheme here. Does it feel like it's working?

SirHipHopHippo on Thoptical Illusion

2 years ago

Cuts: 1. Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 2. Emry, Lurker of the Loch 3. Enthusiastic Mechanaut 4. Flamewar, Brash Veteran  ^Flip 5. Goldbug, Humanity's Ally  ^Flip 6. Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter 7. Jhoira, Ageless Innovator 8. Magister Sphinx 9. Myr Battlesphere 10. Myr Moonvessel 11. Myr Retriever 12. Ratchet, Field Medic  ^Flip 13. Scrap Trawler 14. Sharuum the Hegemon 15. Shimmer Myr 16. Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle 17. Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer 18. Brainstorm 19. Reality Heist 20. Thirst for Knowledge 21. Mirrodin Besieged 22. The Antiquities War 23. Imposter Mech 24. Sculpting Steel 25. Shorikai, Genesis Engine 26. Dance of the Manse 27. Faithless Looting

carpecanum on Queza, Augur of Agonies

3 years ago

Magister Sphinx is a creature but its one of my favorites . If you get extra life you could spend it on Aetherflux Reservoir

legendofa on Commander without the Legendary Rule

3 years ago

I'm going to go with, as always, Alara. TypicalTimmy already mentioned Godsire and Maelstrom Archangel, and I'm going to add Prince of Thralls, Hellkite Overlord, Blood Tyrant, and Magister Sphinx.

(For the curious, Empyrial Archangel and Sphinx Sovereign are the other two cards in the {4}MNNO cycle. Either of them would work as well, I just don't find them quite as interesting.)

carpecanum on Sefris of the Hidden Ways

3 years ago

Magister Sphinx is great to drop on people, especially late game when somebody is running away with lifegain

KBK7101 on I Control the Best Thing!!

3 years ago

Sorin Markov has a minus ability that does the same thing as Magister Sphinx in case you want to double up on that effect. Mystic Reflection could be crazy here with all the cloning. Helm of the Host, too!

liquid_water on Death by Sphinxation

3 years ago

Does your playgroup let you run Magister Sphinx as a commander, or is that a typo?

wotanaz1337 on What Conversations do you not …

4 years ago

Ramble Sadly, I've seen it happen multiple times at a few LGS'. Last time was last Wednesday. I was admittedly ahead on board but the one guy had 12 commander damage on me with Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider and had just thrown down a mana doubling enchantment. I've seen that deck just explode after he has mana doublers out.

I cast Magister Sphinx and took him out with my faerie tokens from Alela, Artful Provocateur. He stormed off saying it was b.s. and that I could have chumped etc.

Yes, I could've but I only had enough to keep myself alive for maybe two turns against commander damage. He was gunning for me due to, again, having the best board state and I didn't cry about it. He saw a threat and was doing something about it.

I also had a Sephara, Sky's Blade I then convoked the following turn. Another reason not to chump. Sephara is one of my curve-topping beaters.

Anyway, the guy had played stuff like Golos 5C and won flat-out with Expropriate against my draft-chaff Talrand in previous weeks. Also, Eldrazi stuff against basically slightly upgraded pre-cons from the other three players.

Everybody else took his powerful combos and/or cards in stride. None of the other people got more upset than a sigh of resignation. We all just shrugged and moved on to the next one.