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I am hopping by turn 6 that the game is well in my favor and the right cards are in my hand, I guess this card could help you if you are drawing tons of lands and not enough "win" cards.  I would have liked to have seen something like "When oponent draws a card, bounce 2 target permanents", for 6 mana.

Jan 18, 2011 -- 7:05AM, 12three45 wrote:

Obviously you've never played against tidespout tyrant.

Against, no.  With, yes.

Dunno why I would play this card unless I was playing Commander.

I think they shoulda just give him something a little more unique and then made it Legendary. I'm tired of Sharum Commander Decks, we could use another Legendary Sphinx that didn't have anything specific to do with artificats to go in a Mono Blue Spinx Commander Deck.


Anyways, this Sphinx absolutely LOVES Dream Fracture .


Edit: I should also say, as far as art goes I think the art for this card is really weak.

Jan 17, 2011 -- 9:12PM, Qmark wrote:

Six mana, huh?

I'm sure there's plenty of silly possible, but drawing cards in the lategame is pretty much win-more, if even that.  How many cards are really going to come out of something that's swinging for four in the air?

I don’t know… Drawing cards in the late game, when your hand is normally less full and you’re searching for gas, looks great to me. A 4-power flier, while nothing to scoff at, is not exactly game over on the spot, and it is very possible that your opponent kills Consacrated Sphinx before you can finish him with it, so I don’t see how it’s just “win more”. But if he’s tapped out when you play the Sphinx, or his removal is main phase only,  you draw at least two cards off it, and if it gets killed after that, that’s at least a 3-for-1. I’m not saying this is a card for constructed duels; it’ll probably end up being just as rejected as its close cousin Sphinx of Magosi . But still, if you compare the two, while Consacrated kills a lot more slowly, which isn’t too problematic for a control deck, it’s more efficient at drawing cards. Drawing for no mana after the initial investment is of course superior to paying each time, in that you can use your mana to play what you drew. So I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility entirely.

In multiplayer, this is just a house, provided that your deck can take advantage of it. Ideally, it would mean having something more threatening (in terms of winning the game) to play after the Sphinx, as well as a good amount of removal.

Something else of note is that such a card advantage granting fattie is exactly the kind of thing you want to accelerate into. Mana accelerating cards are extra mana sources that can become dead fast, so using them to play something that draws a lot of cards to compensate is ideal. I dream of playing Consacrated Sphinx turn 3 on my free-for-all table, with the help of a one-mana accelerator and either Lotus Cobra or Coalition Relic . I think I’ll be trying to build around him, probably in a Bant shell.