Magister Sphinx
- Mana cost
- {4}{W}{U}{B}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Sphinx
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Archenemy #89 (rare)
- Price
- $2.25 USD
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Magister Sphinx has 4 printings, first in Conflux (2009). EDHREC ranks it #7,040 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Ur-Sphinx decks (4,599 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Magister Sphinx most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Ur-Sphinx: 4,599 decks
- Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign: 4,137 decks
- Aminatou, the Fateshifter: 665 decks
- The Celestial Toymaker: 444 decks
- Tawnos, Solemn Survivor: 221 decks
- Dromar, the Banisher: 66 decks
Often played with Magister Sphinx
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : This ability is not optional.
- : For a player's life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted player's life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player's life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, this ability basically causes the team's life total to become 10, but only the targeted player is considered to have actually gained or lost life.