TYPE
Artifact Creature — Sphinx

ABILITY
Flying When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

POWER/TOUGHNESS
5/5

FLAVOR TEXT
"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

ILLUSTRATOR
Steven Belledin

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

LANGUAGES
DE EN ES FR IT JP PT RU ZH-CN ZH-TW

RULINGS

• 2009-02-01 For a player’s life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted player’s life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player’s life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
• 2009-02-01 This ability is not optional.
• 2010-06-15 In a Two-Headed Giant game, this ability basically causes the team’s life total to become 10, but only the targeted player is considered to have actually gained or lost life.