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CardName: Guardian Sphinx Cost: {5} Type: Artifact Creature - Sphinx Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Rules Text: Flying Whenever a creature dies, its controller draws a card. Flavour Text: What is understood only after death? Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare

Guardian Sphinx
{5}
 
 R 
Artifact Creature – Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature dies, its controller draws a card.
What is understood only after death?
Illus. goldfishkang
5/5
Updated on 04 Jul 2017 by Vitenka

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2017-06-30 11:04:30: Vitenka created and commented on the card Guardian Sphinx

­Coerced Confession + Deadly Knowledge

Mill+card draw {u/b}, and card draw whenever blocked {u}.

So my card should be {c}? And slower than an enchantment. So a creature. And draw cards when something happens to creatures.

And there's a theme of 'forcing' in there; so to sorta keep the mill; make the draw non-optional.

Hard to find a state balance for this. Cant be too good, since it's artifact.

I was tempted by 3/3 for {3}; but kinda has to fly since it became a sphinx. So bumped up to the 5. While a very efficient creature; if just used as such it's likely to let your opponent draw a few cards. You really need to pair this up with tokens and sweepers for best effect. Though sweeping an opponents token army to deck them is also hilarious.

­Fecundity on a big flyer will be very popular in certain green-black sacrifice decks. Making it non-optional is indeed hilarious against those token decks. I like it!

Thanks. Oh! And I had a tab lying around for Challenge # 115 for ages. Guess this counts as the start of it :)

cycle of five... artifact, planeswalker, sorcery, instant, land... Seems legit :)

LOL. Yeah, I'd like to see that card types sphinx cycle :)

Wish; command.

­Sphinx's Curse, Sphinx's Bargain, Land of the Sphinx, Guardian Sphinx and Phix, the Σφίγξ.

None are quite so clever as this; but they mostly all play into draw+discard theme.

2017-07-04 11:06:37: Vitenka moved the card Guardian Sphinx from Community Mashup Set into Multiverse Design Challenge

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