Ominous Sphinx

Name
Ominous Sphinx

Mana Cost

Type
Creature — Sphinx

Set
Hour of Devastation

Rarity
Uncommon

Text

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.


Flavor Text

The sphinxes began to speak only after the Second Sun aligned. They whispered dire warnings, though no one listened.


Power/Toughness
4/4

Number
#41

Other Prints
Amonkhet Remastered

Legal Formats
Brawl | Commander | Duel | Gladiator | Historic | Legacy | Modern | Oathbreaker | Pioneer | Timeless | Vintage

Availability
Magic Online | Paper

Rulings

(18/04/2017)
An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.


(18/04/2017)
An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.


(18/04/2017)
Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.


(18/04/2017)
If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.


Artist
Lars Grant-West

Cardmarket Trend

Translations
Language iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage iconLanguage icon