Sharding Sphinx
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{U}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Sphinx
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- Salvat 2011 #51 (rare)
Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Sharding Sphinx has 8 printings, first in Shards of Alara (2008). EDHREC ranks it #3,749 among Commander cards. It appears most in Urza, Chief Artificer decks (6,041 on EDHREC). 5 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Sharding Sphinx
- Eternal Bargain - Commander 2013, led by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
- Exquisite Invention - Commander 2018, led by Saheeli, the Gifted
- First Flight - Starter Commander Decks, led by Isperia, Supreme Judge
- Tinker Time - March of the Machine Commander, led by Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy
- Urza's Iron Alliance - The Brothers' War Commander, led by Urza, Chief Artificer
Commanders that run Sharding Sphinx most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Urza, Chief Artificer: 6,041 decks
- Breya, Etherium Shaper: 4,856 decks
- Leonardo da Vinci: 3,176 decks
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer: 2,702 decks
- Sai, Master Thopterist: 2,392 decks
- Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy: 1,079 decks
- Saheeli, the Gifted: 963 decks
- The Ur-Sphinx: 553 decks
Often played with Sharding Sphinx
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The only difference between a colored artifact and a colorless artifact is, obviously, its color. Unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact requires colored mana to cast. Also unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact has a color in all zones. It will interact with cards that care about color. Other than that, a colored artifact behaves just like any other artifact. It will interact as normal with any card that cares about artifacts, such as Shatter or Arcbound Ravager.
- : If combat damage is dealt to players by multiple artifact creatures you control (including, perhaps, Sharding Sphinx itself), Sharding Sphinx's ability will trigger that many times. You'll get that many Thopter tokens. You'll get just one token per creature, no matter how much combat damage that creature dealt.