"Atemsis , All Seeing: Death by Knowledge"

"Atemsis , All Seeing: Death by Knowledge"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD 

Atemsis is the kind of card that you want to build around. I can see it now.It saw me seeing it. It saw me building something. Then it got disappointed that I did not build it at all and moved on to that Slivers deck I never got to doing because I got the First Sliver in my Modern Horizons box...Anyway.

This Sphinx is a 4/5 flyer costing 3 colorless and 3 blue mana. It has the ability to let you filter your hands by drawing 2 cards and discarding a card for a blue mana and 2 mana of any color.

And when it deals damage to an opponent you get to check your hand  , reveal it and if you have cards with at least 6 different converted mana costs that opponent who just got damaged loses the game.

The flavor of this card is that with all the knowledge that it will let you accumulate you will be able to see all possible futures and determine the best possible outcome for victory. 

It seems to me that someone was watching a certain Marvel movie where a certain Sorcerer Supreme looked into 14 millions plus futures to see the lone chance of winning.

So Atemsis , Sees all that you are planning and it will be able to stop them all. Except for a well timed spot removal like Go for the Throat for example.

Well now that I got that out of my system Atemsis is one of those needed Sphinx Commanders and could keep Unesh company as my friend Ram said.

When playing Atemsis it is great if you have a Spellbook or Reliquary Tower so that you can always have more than a full hand in case you are just drawing lands and not getting those different mana costs in.

If you have the Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator you can sink all of that unli mana into a Mystic Archeologist to keep drawing 2 cards! Or use the new Spectral Sailor for those end of turn or sudden shenanigans. And if you have the different CMC that you need...Attack!!! 

Atemsis should draw enough attention when it is on the battlefield even if it is not your commander. You just have to give a little more respect to a card that can let you win in one swing. If John Wick can kill someone with a book. Atemsis can surely kill you with just knowledge.