Sharding Sphinx
Commander 2013 56 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Collector number
- 56
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Michael Bruinsma
- Market price
- $0.25
What it does
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.
Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Sharding Sphinx was originally introduced in the Shards of Alara set in 2008, designed as a powerful rare creature representing the Esper shard, a plane defined by its mastery of artifact-based magic. The card was selected for the Commander 2013 release to provide a synergistic engine for players focusing on artifact strategies, particularly within the blue color identity, where it incentivizes swarming the battlefield with artifact creatures.
The illustration by Michael Bruinsma emphasizes the metallic, sleek, and ether-infused aesthetic characteristic of the Esper faction. By depicting a sphinx composed of shifting, modular components, the artwork reflects the card's mechanical ability to multiply artifact tokens, a design choice that was well-received by players for its thematic cohesion and its effectiveness in multiplayer formats.
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