Ominous Sphinx (Hour of Devastation) - Gatherer

Ominous Sphinx

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Community Rating: 5 / 5 (0 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Ominous Sphinx

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Types:

Creature — Sphinx

Card 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.

P/T:

4 / 4

Expansion:

Hour of Devastation

Rarity:

Uncommon

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Artist:

Lars Grant-West

Rulings

4/18/2017	Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.
4/18/2017	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.
4/18/2017	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.
4/18/2017	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.