Sphere

Sphere
Land Type
(Subtype for land cards)
Statistics	10 cards 10% 90% as of Modern Horizons 3
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type:"Sphere"

Sphere is a nonbasic land type used for cards that depict the Spheres of New Phyrexia.

Description

Spheres were introduced in Phyrexia: All Will Be One. There are exactly nine cards with the Sphere typeline, corresponding with the Spheres of New Phyrexia. Five of these form a colored cycle at common. The remaining four were then designed top down and put at rare.

Layer #	Card	Color	Corresponding sphere
1	The Monumental Facade		The Glorious Facade
2	Mirrex		The Mirrex
3	The Autonomous Furnace		The Furnace Layer
4	The Hunter Maze		The Hunter Maze
5	The Surgical Bay		The Surgical Bay
6	The Dross Pits		The Dross Pits
7	The Fair Basilica		The Fair Basilica
8	The Mycosynth Gardens		The Mycosynth Gardens
9	The Seedcore		The Seedcore

Other

• Monument to Perfection can search for a Sphere card. It is the only card that cares about the subtype Sphere. Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres, from the same set, doesn't interact with Spheres.
• Planar Nexus has the subtype due to its ability to have all non-basic land types, but it is not written on its typeline.
• Artifacts or Enchantments named Sphere (e.g. Commander's Sphere, Capture Sphere) can't have the Sphere type.

Rules

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 205.3i Lands have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called land types. The land types are Cave, Desert, Forest, Gate, Island, Lair, Locus, Mine, Mountain, Plains, Power-Plant, Sphere, Swamp, Tower, and Urza’s. Of that list, Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, and Swamp are the basic land types. See rule 305.6.