Magister Sphinx
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ArchenemyARC · #89
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Sphinx
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.01 € · 1.42 $
- Mana value
- 7
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 5
- Colour
- White Blue Black
Card text
Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Steven Belledin
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-06-18
Flavour text
"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."
Rulings
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.
This ability is not optional.
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.
