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Petra Sphinx

Multiverse ID: 1628

Petra Sphinx

Comments (12)

Guest1467942152
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
This card is lame, pure & simple. It doesn't even have flying!
Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Hmmm.....
Well, Magus of the Future or Future Sight for one thing.
As for the other thing.... Why on earth does this not have flying?
GrimGorgonBC
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Scry? anyone? no flying!!! lame
Guest57443454
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
One of the best examples of the disconnect between departments in the early days of magic, this and Whipoorwill should have flying...Otherwise, this is decent card....
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Along with the unsolvable riddle of why this Sphinx doesn't have flying is another unsolvable riddle: Why is she a white card? She just seems like she should be blue.
Actully, she may be a non-flyer because the designers were thinking of the Sphinx in Egypt, which doesn't have wings. Why she isn't blue, however, is a mystery for the ages.
NeoSin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Human is the answer to the riddle.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Whoa - compare the art's colours to the other printings. Something happened.
TreeTrunkMaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seems like it could work with blue, but then it requires 3 white to get out, ouch.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Random off the wall card, clearly.

Still, if this fella came back with Flying and as a blue creature for 3UU, I could see it seeing some play in casual decks. So, not terrible, but not that useful.
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
The answer to the riddle is, of course, beer.
For beer crates are carried into the bar by four legs in the morning;
The bartender serves it up in the afternoon on two;
And in the evening, the drunkard passes out in the alleyway and gets kicked in the side by three local ragamoffyns.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Dies to Murder.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card flat-out sphinx.