Chancellor of the Spires

Chancellor of the Spires

Creature — Phyrexian Sphinx

Mana cost: {4}{U}{U}{U}

How we read this card

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards.

static — mills a card

Flying
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: mill a card, cast an instant, cast a sorcery, an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Kethek, Crucible Goliath — Kethek, Crucible Goliath can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Mass Polymorph — Mass Polymorph can put Chancellor of the Spires onto the battlefield from your library

12 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Sphinx attacks — 144 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. The Ur-Sphinx — When Chancellor of the Spires attacks, The Ur-Sphinx mills a card

a Sphinx enters the battlefield — 149 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign — When Chancellor of the Spires enters, Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign triggers

a Phyrexian attacks — 495 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Vulpine Harvester — When Chancellor of the Spires attacks, Vulpine Harvester brings a card back

a nontoken Phyrexian enters the battlefield — 496 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Darksteel Splicer — When Chancellor of the Spires enters, Darksteel Splicer makes a token

a Phyrexian enters the battlefield — 524 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Essence of Orthodoxy — When Chancellor of the Spires enters, Essence of Orthodoxy puts a counter on a permanent

a card is milled — 772 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — When a permanent makes a player mill a card thanks to Chancellor of the Spires, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors puts a counter on an Advisor

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

When an instant is cast thanks to Chancellor of the Spires:

  1. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  2. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — draws you 1 card
  4. Arasta of the Endless Web — makes a token
  5. Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands — taxes the table
  6. Geometric Nexus — puts that spell's mana value charge counters on itself
  7. Mage Hunter — makes a player lose 1 life
  8. Bonus Round — copies a spell
  9. Rod of Absorption — exiles it
  10. Eye of the Storm — exiles it

424 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Primeval Bounty — When Chancellor of the Spires is cast, Primeval Bounty makes a token

90 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Chancellor of the Spires is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When Chancellor of the Spires enters, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.