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CardName: Sphinx of Kahakai Cost: 4uu Type: Creature - Sphinx Pow/Tgh: 6/6 Rules Text: Flying {1}{g}{w}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Kahakai, then gain 1 life for each +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Kahakai. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Toakoa Rare |
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: Put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Kahakai, then gain 1 life for each +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Kahakai.
The activated ability already requires green and white mana additionally requiring a Forest and a Plains... that is very niche/mostly redundant on this ability.
There is a reason the static ability of Arctic Aven requires a Plains, but the activated ability doesn't explicitly.
I'd say this is surprisingly blunt-force-trauma for a blue-sphinx. So while the "only if you control" is pretty much trinket text; it's also useful flavour for explaining that while, yes, Sphinx are typically considered cunning riddlers - this is the old fashioned kind who sits at a crossroad and throws people off of cliffs.
How does that "only if" text explain that where the "
" does not though?
And really... The activated ability really doesn't add that much blunt-force to the 6/6 french vanilla flier that you get out of this in a mono-blue deck. If anything the life gain and counters play into blue's long game perspective.
Additional explanation required?
Sphinx of Magosi reference.
It's not though. Magosi doesn't have an activation restriction
I meant the card as a whole. The restriction can probably go.