Enigma Thief
- Mana cost
- {5}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Sphinx Rogue
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Zendikar Rising Commander #4 (rare)
- Price
- $0.43 USD
Prowl {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Sphinx or Rogue.)
Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.
Enigma Thief has 1 printing, first in Zendikar Rising Commander (2020). EDHREC ranks it #11,202 among Commander cards. It appears most in Anowon, the Ruin Thief decks (3,410 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Enigma Thief
- Sneak Attack - Zendikar Rising Commander, led by Anowon, the Ruin Thief
Commanders that run Enigma Thief most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Anowon, the Ruin Thief: 3,410 decks
- The Ur-Sphinx: 1,906 decks
- Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign: 1,376 decks
- Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign: 638 decks
- Isperia the Inscrutable: 163 decks
- Zareth San, the Trickster: 21 decks
- Alhammarret, High Arbiter
Often played with Enigma Thief
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a nonland permanent changes control while it's the target of Enigma Thief's ability, that permanent won't be a legal target as the ability resolves. Any remaining legal targets will be returned to their owners' hand.
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a prowl cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- : You can cast a spell for its prowl cost any time in a turn after a creature you control of a matching type has dealt combat damage to a player. It doesn't matter if that player left the game, if that creature left the battlefield or left your control, or if that creature no longer has a matching type.
- : Prowl compares the creature types of the spell with the creature types of the creatures that dealt combat damage to players this turn. Normally this means that you can cast Enigma Thief for its prowl cost only if a Sphinx or Rogue dealt combat damage to a player, but if an effect causes the spell to have other creature types, the prowl ability is also satisfied by a creature with those additional types having dealt combat damage to a player.