Sphinx of the Steel Wind
Premium Deck Series: Graveborn 9 • mythic
- Set
- Premium Deck Series: Graveborn
- Collector number
- 9
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana white mana blue mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black · Blue · White
- Artist
- Kev Walker
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green
No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Sphinx of the Steel Wind was originally released in the 2009 set Shards of Alara, designed by Mark Tedin. The card was conceived as a high-cost, powerful creature representing the Esper shard, a plane defined by its fusion of artifice and living tissue. Its design, featuring protection from green and white and the life-linking ability, was intended to serve as a formidable threat in control-oriented decks, rewarding players for successfully maneuvering it onto the battlefield.
The version from Premium Deck Series: Graveborn, released in 2011, features the signature reflective foil treatment characteristic of the series. This curated deck focused on graveyard recursion, providing players with powerful threats that could be cheated into play from the discard pile. The illustration by Mark Tedin emphasizes the creature's metallic, imposing nature, and upon its release, the card became a staple choice for reanimator strategies, valued by players for its ability to stabilize games through its combination of evasion and lifegain.
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