First printed in Shards of Alara (2008)
All 8 prints
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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #235, 2023
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Starter Commander Decks (SCD) #59, 2022
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The Brothers' War Commander (BRC) #94, 2022
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Jumpstart (JMP) #176, 2020
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Commander 2018 (C18) #101, 2018
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Commander 2013 (C13) #56, 2013
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Salvat 2011 (PS11) #51, 2011
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Shards of Alara (ALA) #55, 2008
Sharding Sphinx 
Artifact Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
In the last 30 days 0.0% of Commander decks played it (3 of 6150). Most played in Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar.
Combos
5 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.
- Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases…: Breath of Fury + Sharding Sphinx + Thopter Engineer
- Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases…: Breath of Fury + Roar of Resistance + Sharding Sphinx
- Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases…: Breath of Fury + Mass Hysteria + Sharding Sphinx
- Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases…: Breath of Fury + Sharding Sphinx + Urabrask the Hidden
- Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases…: Breath of Fury + Fervor + Sharding Sphinx
Legality
Constructed
- Standard Not legal
- Pioneer Not legal
- Modern Legal
- Legacy Legal
- Vintage Legal
- Pauper Not legal
- Future Standard Not legal
- Historic Legal
- Timeless Legal
- Alchemy Not legal
- Penny Dreadful Legal
- Premodern Not legal
- Old School 93/94 Not legal
Singleton
- Gladiator Legal
Commander formats
- Commander Legal
- Duel Commander Legal
- Pauper Commander Not legal
- PreDH Legal
- Tiny Leaders Not legal
- Oathbreaker Legal
- Brawl Legal
- Standard Brawl Not legal
- Competitive Brawl Legal
