Enigma Sphinx: Artifact Creature - Sphinx, Commander 2018. Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into On Mana Grove.
Enigma Sphinx is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white, blue and black artifact creature from Commander 2018 (C18), a Commander product released in August 2018. It is collector number 178 in that set, with art by Chris Rahn. It costs {4}{W}{U}{B} (four generic, one white, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is white, blue and black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Alara Reborn (2009) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.56 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card 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.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.56 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Enigma Sphinx by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
Enigma Sphinx has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
Printing
Rarity
Year
The List (PLST) #C18-178
Rare
2026
Planechase Anthology (PCA) #89
Rare
2016
Planechase 2012 (PC2) #89
Rare
2012
Alara Reborn (ARB) #106
Rare
2009
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Enigma Sphinx, newest first.
If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.
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.
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.
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 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.
A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
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