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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Legendary Creature — Sphinx · {4}{U}{U} · Blue commander

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Unesh or another Sphinx you control enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

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What Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhenever Unesh or another Sphinx you control enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your gr
• Static ability · cost_reductionSphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What an Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign deck needs

Plays as cost reducer. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
• cheap, dense sphinx spells (it makes them cheaper)
• sphinx creatures (its text counts them)

The Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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