Sphinx of the Steel Wind

what a monster.......is this the biggest lifelink creature EVER? plus its not even a legend? w/ a few colors protection added in for fun, the best part turns out to be it won't tap to attack, and just pumps 12 life a turn out if the situation unfolds the right way for you. Or the opponent is dumb enough to attack, and has no choice! tooooo funny. WHAT AN ANIMAL IN reanimatorrrrr!!

I love this card. When I first got it I thought " :::shrug::: whatever". But I refined my artifact decks earlier into one,got him out and my opponent couldn't do anything. They were playing red/green elemental and this was the only creature card I had for almost the whole game. Yeah I took some damage because they had more creatures than me but they dwindled quickly and I regained all that life and then some.

Cant Bant Charm him, he has pro-green. I run 2 sideboard because this card just laughs at jund and some grixis based decks. But against anything that runs white he gonna get pathed or o-ringed at the first possible chance.

Master Transmuter the Akroma Sphinx in...and you're good to go!

two word: summoning trap

or if you like 3: open the vaults

with all the blighting floating around in standard getting her to your graveyard shouldnt be too hard

the only relevant removal that this dies to is path to exile, oblivion ring and celestial purge. if you are not playing against a white deck, it is practically impervious.

Kind of pricey, but not too bad if you have sculptors or a transmuter. Pro green and red, so don't have to worry about those artifact killers. I'm running two in an Esper block deck cos well, it's big and stompy and full of rawr. BUT: Path to Exile, Excommunicate, Bant Charm, or Cancel...plus many other ways to deal with it. And that's just within the Shards block. So while tis indeed an awesome stompy for Esper, still can only give it 3 because of the fact that as a creature, there's oh so many ways to deal with it.