Magister Sphinx

Artifact Creature — Sphinx    (CMC:7)

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

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

89 ARC • ENSteven Belledin

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Legal in: Modern,Shards of Alara Block,Legacy,Vintage,Freeform,Prismatic,Tribal Wars Legacy,Classic,Singleton 100,Commander

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Magister Sphinx {4}{W}{U}{B} Artifact Creature — Sphinx Flying When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10. 5/5

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2/1/2009
This ability is not optional.
2/1/2009
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.
6/15/2010
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.

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