Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign card art

Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Legendary Creature — Sphinx MV 6

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2017-07-14

    You (not your opponent) choose which pile to put into your hand and which to put 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

    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

    Unesh's cost-reduction ability doesn't reduce the cost to cast itself.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Every version of Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.