The times when this is most backbreaking is when you play a mana accelarent on turn 1 and 2 and then drop this on turn three, sending your opponent back to the stone age in terms of their chances of developing in the game
In other words, that's free card advantage with every Sphinx that enters
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Printed in 1993s Alpha set, this blue sorcery forces all players to shuffle their hand, graveyard, and library together before drawing seven fresh cards
Boring deckbuilding that becomes "UGx deck can run Hermit and Oracle to win", and thus you end up with twenty different UGx decks that look the same
The Bat creature type was first introduced in Magic: The Gathering's Homelands set released back in 1995