Sphinx's Revelation
Instant
You gain X life and draw X cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- RNA Guild Kit
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #3310
Sphinx's Revelation refills your hand and pads your life total in one instant-speed shot — the bigger the X, the more dominant the swing. Will, Scion of Peace turns that life gain into cost reduction, making this one of the most efficient draw spells in its color pair.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Will, Scion of Peace
Will, Scion of Peace reduces spell costs based on life gained, and Sphinx's Revelation is a single spell that can generate ten or more life in one cast — the synergy is direct and recursive, letting you chain spells the same turn you resolve it.
The Archimandrite
The Archimandrite rewards you for running multicolored spells across multiple colors, and Sphinx's Revelation's white-blue identity slots cleanly into that strategy while refueling the hand that keeps the engine running.
Hope Estheim
Hope Estheim cares about life gain triggers, and Sphinx's Revelation delivers a single massive burst of life that fires that engine once at instant speed — often at the end of an opponent's turn when it hurts most.
Kangee, Sky Warden
Kangee, Sky Warden is a blue-white tempo commander that wants to stay ahead on cards, and Sphinx's Revelation provides the kind of end-of-turn refuel that keeps the hand full without tapping out on your own turn.
Elenda and Azor
Elenda and Azor's second ability lets you draw cards and gain life when you cast instants during your end step, which Sphinx's Revelation satisfies while doubling up on the life gain that Elenda's half of the card rewards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sphinx's Revelation is a late-game staple — the format's longer games and higher life totals mean you regularly cast it for six or more, which is where it becomes backbreaking. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in control shells that can reach the mana to make X meaningful, though faster threats have largely pushed it out of those formats' competitive tiers. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more broken draw spells, so Sphinx's Revelation is almost never the right call there. The card's real home has always been Commander, where instant speed and life gain combine to make it a genuine finisher for blue-white control strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Sphinx's Revelation is bulk by price but not by impact — it's cheap because supply is high, not because the card is weak. For under a dollar, it's an easy include in any blue-white Commander deck that can reliably produce six or more mana.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.