Cerulean Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
Flying
: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #28625
Cerulean Sphinx is a 4/3 flyer for six mana with a morph ability that lets you bounce it to hand at instant speed — relevant primarily as a blink reset or combat trick, not as a standalone threat. Six mana for a 4/3 with no enters-the-battlefield effect is a steep ask in any format, and the morph trick rarely justifies the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cerulean Sphinx is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, six mana for a vanilla-statted flyer with a situational bounce ability is well below the power floor — blue has Sphinx of Magosi, Consecrated Sphinx, and a dozen other sphinxes that do meaningfully more for the same cost or less. In Legacy and Vintage, it isn't remotely on the radar given the density of broken threats available. Modern has long since left six-mana do-nothing creatures behind.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Cerulean Sphinx sits firmly in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its play rate. Don't expect that floor to move — there's no competitive demand and no casual archetype desperate enough for a six-mana 4/3 to push the price anywhere.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.