Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
Legendary Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Sphinx spells you cast cost 
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.
4 / 4
- Set
- Hour of Devastation (HOU #52)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 6
- Released
- 2017-07-14
- Artist
- Adrian Majkrzak
- EDHREC rank
- #11,520
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Sphinx of Foresight
- Defiler of Dreams
- Dream Eater
- Dazzling Sphinx
- Atemsis, All-Seeing
- Windreader Sphinx
- Enigma Thief
- Sphinx of the Second Sun
- Master of Predicaments
- Sphinx of Uthuun
- Scholar of the Lost Trove
- Argent Sphinx
- Sphinx of the Final Word
- Guardian of Tazeem
- Conspiracy Unraveler
- Prognostic Sphinx
- Arbiter of the Ideal
- Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
- Kefnet's Monument
- Urza's Incubator
- Curator of Destinies
- Conundrum Sphinx
- Sphinx Ambassador
- Chancellor of the Spires
- Sphinx of Enlightenment
- Ormos, Archive Keeper
- Reflections of Littjara
- Herald's Horn
- Consecrated Sphinx
- Warden of Evos Isle
- Serum Sovereign
- Curator of Mysteries
- Riddlemaster Sphinx
- Path of Ancestry
- Rescuer Sphinx
- Panharmonicon
- Sphinx of Lost Truths
- Glyph Keeper
- Universal Automaton
- Inspired Sphinx
- Alhammarret, High Arbiter
- Quantum Riddler
- Sphinx of Magosi
- Caged Sun
- Thought Vessel
- Sphinx of Jwar Isle
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
- Raise the Palisade
- High Tide
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Defiler of Dreams
- Sphinx of Foresight
- Thought Vessel
- Sapphire Medallion
- Reliquary Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Atemsis, All-Seeing
- Windreader Sphinx
- Dazzling Sphinx
- Dream Eater
- Counterspell
- Sphinx of the Second Sun
- Enigma Thief
- High Tide
- Master of Predicaments
- Sphinx of Uthuun
- Scholar of the Lost Trove
- Argent Sphinx
- Kefnet's Monument
- Sphinx of the Final Word
- Guardian of Tazeem
- Conspiracy Unraveler
- Prognostic Sphinx
- Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
- Arbiter of the Ideal
- Urza's Incubator
- Consecrated Sphinx
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Curator of Destinies
- Conundrum Sphinx
- Sphinx Ambassador
- Chancellor of the Spires
- Mind Stone
- Reflections of Littjara
- Reality Shift
- Sphinx of Enlightenment
- Ormos, Archive Keeper
- Pongify
- Herald's Horn
- Sky Diamond
- Rapid Hybridization
- Warden of Evos Isle
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Negate
- Arcane Denial
- Serum Sovereign
- Myriad Landscape
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
Format legality
Rulings
- 2017-07-14
A pile can have no cards in it. In this case, you'll choose whether to put all the revealed cards into your hand or into your graveyard.
- 2017-07-14
In multiplayer games, you choose an opponent to separate the cards when the ability resolves. This doesn't target that opponent. Because the cards are revealed, all players may see the cards and offer opinions.
- 2017-07-14
To determine the total cost of a Sphinx spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the creature remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- 2017-07-14
Unesh's cost-reduction ability doesn't reduce the cost to cast itself.
- 2017-07-14
You (not your opponent) choose which pile to put into your hand and which to put into your graveyard.