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Sphinx of Lost Truths (69)

ZEN · Zendikar · rare

Mana cost
Mana value	5.0
Type	Creature — Sphinx
Rarity	rare
Colors	U
Power / Toughness	3 / 5
EDHREC rank	20036

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

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• 2009-10-01: Sphinx of Lost Truths behaves differently than other cards with kicker. Its "enters" ability always triggers, and it checks whether it *wasn't* kicked. The two possible results are as follows: -- When an unkicked Sphinx of Lost Truths enters, you draw three cards, then discard three cards. -- When a kicked Sphinx of Lost Truths enters, you draw three cards.
• 2024-11-08: If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
• 2024-11-08: To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
• 2024-11-08: If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
• 2024-11-08: If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
• 2024-11-08: If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
• 2024-11-08: The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

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