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CardName: Sphinx of Addled Whims Cost: 2rr Type: Creature - Sphinx Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Flying, haste A the beginning of your end step, choose another nonplaneswalker permanent at random. Sphinx of Addled Whims becomes a copy of that permanent until the beginning of your next upkeep. Untap Sphinx of Addled Whims. If Sphinx of Addled Whims becomes an Aura or an equipment this way, you may attach it to a creature of your choice. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare
Sphinx of Addled Whims
  Flying, haste
A the beginning of your end step, choose another nonplaneswalker permanent at random. Sphinx of Addled Whims becomes a copy of that permanent until the beginning of your next upkeep. Untap Sphinx of Addled Whims. If Sphinx of Addled Whims becomes an Aura or an equipment this way, you may attach it to a creature of your choice. 4/4
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See Challenge # 109.
This is hilarious :D I love that it gets to attack as a 4/4 flyer during your combat step, but for everyone else's turns it's... something else! But nobody can predict what!
(Actually, most of the time it'll be a land. Which is a bit boring. Can it say "nonland permanent at random"?)
I left open the possibility of it imitating a land both as a drawback and protection from most Sorcery-speed removal. Your query made me think about whether or not this should copy planeswalkers, though. That would be almost totally useless unless you had the new Teferi's emblem. Maybe this should either not copy planeswalkers, or it should spell out leung you use its abilities at instant speed if it copies one... Though that's awfully specific and wordy for a rare.
Added untap to make copying after attacking less useless.
Ugh, turning into a planeswalker would have the same effect as turning into a Graft or Modular creature: it'd die at SBA speed due to no counters :/
Sadly I suspect most noncreature permanents it can turn into would be just as useless. Equipment you wouldn't get to attach; Auras would again make this just die; many global enchantments would be redundant. It's the kind of ability that looks more fun than it actually is, I suspect.
Oh, you're right. :-(
I get the impression that this would just end up a better card if it read "creature or artifact at random". Solves a lot of the 'problems', and doesn't really seem like the card is restricting itself to a person playing with it. Only the designers would stress over something like this.
I ended up really liking the last line, though.
Yeah, that last line does make it a lot more usable, and is pleasing in a Johnny/Melvin kind of way.
If I can ever convince people around me to do a BOO draft, I'm going to take this and see how it plays (if I remember).