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Equivalent cards to Vexing Sphinx (Blue Sphinx creatures with similar effects—flying, card draw, upkeep/discard themes):
1. Vexing Sphinx itself
2. Enigma Sphinx — Blue, flying Sphinx, has card filtering and recursion but not cumulative upkeep/discard.
3. Sphinx of Foresight — Blue, flying Sphinx, manipulates the top of your library, some card draw similarity.
4. Consecrated Sphinx — Blue, flying, draws cards when opponents draw (no upkeep/discard).
5. Sphinx of Lost Truths — Blue, flying, draws and discards cards (not cumulative, but similar themes).

There isn't an exact match for cumulative upkeep—discard and card draw for age counters, but these are the closest similar blue Sphinxes.

Found Cards

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Consecrated Sphinx

Enigma Sphinx

Sphinx of Foresight

Sphinx of Lost Truths

Vexing Sphinx

Consecrated Sphinx #7023 Creature — Sphinx

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 6
Power/Toughness: 4/6
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  • Creature
  • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
  • Languages:
    EDH Bracket Attr:
    Game Changer
    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • If each player controls a Consecrated Sphinx, their abilities will cause each other to trigger until one player chooses not to draw cards.
  • The ability triggers once for each card an opponent draws. You choose whether to draw two cards as each of those abilities resolves.
  • You may either draw two cards or not draw at all. You can't choose to draw only one card.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 224.41 USD
    Cardmarket 250 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

    Enigma Sphinx #178 Artifact Creature — Sphinx

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 5/4
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
  • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Cascade Flying

    Rules

  • After Enigma Sphinx's middle ability triggers, if Enigma Sphinx is removed from your graveyard in response, it won't be put into your library.
  • If you control an Enigma Sphinx that's owned by another player, it's put into that player's graveyard from the battlefield, so Enigma Sphinx's middle ability won't trigger.
  • If you have zero or one card left in your library when Enigma Sphinx's middle ability resolves, Enigma Sphinx is put on the bottom of your library.
  • A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
  • Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.
  • Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.
  • If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
  • The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.
  • When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.
  • You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.25 EUR / 0.1 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.26 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.26 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top. Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

    Sphinx of Foresight #55 Creature — Sphinx

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
  • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Scry

    Rules

  • If you reveal two Sphinxes of Foresight from your opening hand, you'll scry 3 twice; you won't scry 6. Any cards you put on top of your library the first time you scry 3 will be part of the second time you scry 3.
  • A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 1.49 USD 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.37 USD / 0.75 USD
    Manapool / 0.65 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.85 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep. Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

    Sphinx of Lost Truths #69 Creature — Sphinx

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 3/5
    Types:
  • Creature
  • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying Kicker

    Rules

  • Sphinx of Lost Truths behaves differently than other cards with kicker. Its "enters" ability always triggers, and it checks whether it *wasn't* kicked. The two possible results are as follows: -- When an unkicked Sphinx of Lost Truths enters, you draw three cards, then discard three cards. -- When a kicked Sphinx of Lost Truths enters, you draw three cards.
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.46 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.65 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.25 USD / 0.8 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked,discardthree cards.

    Vexing Sphinx #50 Creature — Sphinx

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 4/4
    Types:
  • Creature
  • SubTypes:
  • Sphinx
  • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.
  • Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if Vexing Sphinx has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either discard four cards or sacrifice it.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket / 1.71 EUR 0.25 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.3 USD / 0.5 USD
    Manapool / 2.43 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 5.99 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Flying Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an agecounteron this permanent, thensacrificeit unless you pay its upkeep cost for each agecounteron it.) When this creature dies, draw a card for each agecounteron it.