Curator of Destinies

Fact or Fiction, rebuilt as a body. That old instant asked you to look at the top five, split them into two piles, and hand your opponent the choice of which pile you keep; the tension lived in the opponent's read on what you needed against what they could afford to give. This Sphinx keeps the split-and-choose skeleton but rearranges every knob. You still sort your top five and your opponent still chooses which pile you take, but the sort is now into a face-down pile and a face-up pile, so half the decision is made blind: the piece you can control is exactly the piece your opponent evaluates without seeing. The "can't be countered" clause on top is where the design shows its intent. That is a strange thing to hang on a six-mana body that already carries flying and closes as a 5/5, until you notice it is aimed squarely at the mirror of blue decks that would otherwise trade a two-mana answer for your value engine. The card wants to resolve, and it is willing to pay in card slots for the guarantee. Everything after that is the familiar prisoner's-dilemma minigame that split-pile draw has always run on, now stapled to a flier that keeps flapping after the piles are sorted and one of them has fed your graveyard.