First printed in Conflux (2009)
All 4 prints
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #247, 2022
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #519, 2022
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Archenemy (ARC) #89, 2010
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Conflux (CON) #116, 2009
Magister Sphinx 
Artifact Creature — Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."
5/5
- Illustrated by
- Steven Belledin
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (3)
- This ability is not optional.
- For a player's life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted player's life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player's life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, this ability basically causes the team's life total to become 10, but only the targeted player is considered to have actually gained or lost life.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
7 combos, the most popular first:
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game: Archfiend of Despair + Magister Sphinx
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game: Ezio Auditore da Firenze + Magister Sphinx
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game: Magister Sphinx + Wound Reflection
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game: Magister Sphinx + Warlock Class
- Target player loses the game: Hidetsugu's Second Rite + Magister Sphinx
- Infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game: Aria of Flame + Magister Sphinx + Plague Drone
- Target opponent loses the game: Aria of Flame + Magister Sphinx + Tainted Remedy