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"Find me cards equivalent to: Sphinx's Approach"

There are no direct equivalents to Sphinx's Approach because of its unique any number in deck rule and its special Sphinx search effect. Closest blue instants that draw cards and search for creatures are:

  • Dig Through Time (instant, card draw, exile for effect)
  • Fact or Fiction (instant, card draw)
  • Fierce Guardianship (rare deck-building exception, but not draw/search)
  • Whispering Madness (draw/discard, trades hands)
  • Concentration (instant, pure draw, but no tutoring)

None match the exact Sphinx's Approach combination (repeatability, tutor Sphinx, any-number-in-deck). Closest in spirit: Dig Through Time (exile for reward) and Merchant Scroll (instant, blue, tutor). In conclusion, Sphinx's Approach is essentially unique among blue instants.

Found Cards

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Dig Through Time

Fact or Fiction

Fierce Guardianship

Merchant Scroll

Sphinx's Approach

Whispering Madness

Dig Through Time #137 Instant

Variations: v1 v2 v3
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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 8
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Delve

    Rules

  • Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
  • Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
  • You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

    Fact or Fiction #41 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Rules

  • Piles may be empty.

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    Tcgplayer 0.22 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

    Fierce Guardianship #55 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Rules

  • It doesn't matter whose commander you control. Any one will do. If you have two commanders, you just need to control one of them.
  • Once you begin casting this spell, players can't take any other actions until you're done casting it. Notably, they can't try to remove the commander you control to make you pay its cost.

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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

    Merchant Scroll #2824 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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  • Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.

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    Cardkingdom 7.99 USD
    Manapool 5.16 USD / 6.07 USD
    Tcgplayer 5.01 USD / 6.94 USD
    Cardmarket / 8.34 EUR 8.04 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, thenshuffle

    Sphinx's Approach #442 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • The last ability of Sphinx's Approach lets you ignore the "four-of" rule. It doesn't let you ignore format legality. For example, during a Reality Fracture Limited event, you can't add cards named Sphinx's Approach from your personal collection.

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    Cardmarket 0.5 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Draw two cards. Then you may exile this spell and four cards named Sphinx's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Sphinx creature card, put it onto the battlefield, thenshuffle A deck can have any number of cards named Sphinx's Approach.

    Whispering Madness #207 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cipher

    Rules

  • Each player draws cards simultaneously. If this causes a player to draw more cards than are left in their library, that player will lose the game. If this causes all players to do so, the game is a draw. (In multiplayer games, multiple players drawing from an empty library will cause those players to lose although the game may continue.)
  • You’ll draw cards before deciding which creature (if any) Whispering Madness will be encoded on.
  • If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.
  • If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.
  • If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.
  • If the spell with cipher doesn’t resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its owner’s graveyard and won’t be encoded on a creature.
  • If you choose not to cast the copy, or you can’t cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You won’t get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.
  • If you want to encode the card with cipher onto a noncreature permanent such as a Keyrune that can turn into a creature, that permanent has to be a creature before the spell with cipher starts resolving. You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.
  • The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.
  • The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it’s encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won’t trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
  • The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spell’s resolution, just after the spell’s other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.
  • You cast the copy of the card with cipher during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore timing restrictions based on the card’s type.
  • You choose the creature as the spell resolves. The cipher ability doesn’t target that creature, although the spell with cipher may target that creature (or a different creature) because of its other abilities.

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    Cardkingdom / 17.99 USD 3.49 USD
    Cardmarket 2.64 EUR / 8.77 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 10.75 USD 2.44 USD
    Manapool 1.79 USD / 9.83 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)