Vexing Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2003
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1185
- Illustrator
- Lars Grant-West
- Found in
- Coldsnap MTGO Redemption Foil · Coldsnap MTGO Redemption · Coldsnap Booster Pack
Plays as: Card Draw · Ltb Trigger
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Rulings
2 · latest Dec 8, 2022 · one tap opens all
- WotCDec 8, 2022
Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if Vexing Sphinx has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either discard four cards or sacrifice it.
- WotCOct 1, 2008
Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep
” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay 
or sacrifice the permanent.