
Card text
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
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Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Power / toughness
4/4
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Card text
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Ominous Sphinx
Ominous Sphinx (41) is a Blue Creature — Sphinx from Hour of Devastation (HOU). It costs {3}{U}{U}, has mana value 5 and is a 4/4. It is printed at Uncommon rarity. The one keyword in its text is Flying. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 5 more formats.
Hour of Devastation is a main expansion, released July 2017.
Flying Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
Card details
- Card number
- 41
- Set
- Hour of Devastation (HOU)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 14 July 2017
- Rarity
- Uncommon (U)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Creature — Sphinx
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Ominous Sphinx
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