Ominous Sphinx

Creature — Sphinx    (CMC:5)

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

The sphinxes began to speak only after the Second Sun aligned. They whispered dire warnings, though no one listened.

041 HOU • ENLars Grant-West

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Legal in: Modern,Legacy,Vintage,Commander

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Ominous Sphinx {3}{U}{U} Creature — Sphinx Flying Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn. 4/4

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4/18/2017
Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.
4/18/2017
An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.
4/18/2017
An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.
4/18/2017
If a player discards a card during his or her cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.

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