Quote Originally Posted by darkgh0st View Post
For thoughts:
- Sphinx doesn't ride well with the deck's current creature types if you are dependent on Cavern.
- Currently used card drawing engines come in at least a turn earlier in forms of Staff of Nin and Coercive Portal, which just gets better on the long run. One time use Oracle, which nets an unpredictable amount of cards is what you are trading those for. If you run Oracle with Staff or Portal, chances are you don't need Oracle.
- Looks really good the sooner you can empty your hand, while having your opponent at lots still, probably on a Welder and/or Daretti shell. Then again you'd probably want to drop threats instead of drawing cards.
I ran 3-4 games with the sphinx and found that more than often it would net me one to three cards, feeling each time like I'd rather be dropping a power creature. I don't think I'll revisit it.