EsperLegendary Creature — Sphinx RogueTivit, Seller of Secrets
Mana value6Rank#4,415
The Commander
Flying, ward 
Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)
Guide
Gameplan
Cast Tivit, vote for value, and snowball Clue and Treasure tokens every time it enters or connects in combat. Use the tokens to fuel artifact synergies, ramp into game-ending spells, and protect Tivit with ward while you grind toward a control or combo finish. You always get the most votes, so every council's dilemma trigger massively favors you.
Strengths
- Generates enormous artifact value (Clues + Treasures) that fuels ramp, card draw, and artifact payoffs
- Esper colors give access to the best removal, counters, tutors, and recursion in the format
- Ward plus flying makes Tivit hard to interact with and a reliable repeatable engine
- Blink and clone effects double or triple the council's dilemma payoff
Weaknesses
- Six mana and only triggers on ETB/combat damage, so it needs setup to snowball
- Vulnerable to board wipes and exile-based removal that ignores ward
- Token engine can be slow without payoffs to convert artifacts into wins
- Telegraphs you as a threat, drawing early removal and political heat
Key Cards
- Time Sieve — Sacrifice five artifacts (easy with Tivit's tokens) to take infinite extra turns.
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer — Turns your pile of Treasures and Clues into an army of attackers for a quick kill.
- Anointed Procession — Doubles every token Tivit's dilemma produces, exploding your artifact count.
- Teferi's Protection — Premier protection that saves Tivit and your board from wipes and lethal swings.
- Marionette Master — Converts sacrificed Treasures and Clues into massive direct damage for a finisher.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Chrome Mox) and strong tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor) to assemble Time Sieve loops faster. Lean into token doublers and free blink effects like Ghostly Flicker with Dramatic Reversal-style mana to retrigger Tivit, and tighten the manabase with fetches, shocks, and duals. Prioritize compact two-card combos so the deck doesn't rely solely on slow incremental value.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Time Sieve plus artifact tokens for infinite turns into any wincon
- ▸Marionette Master / Disciple of the Vault draining life as you sacrifice tokens
- ▸Brudiclad converting tokens into a lethal token army
- ▸Grinding the table out with card advantage and a big sphinx beatdown
Archetypes
- Artifacts — Tivit floods the board with Clues and Treasures that power artifact-matters payoffs.
- Control — Esper interaction plus repeatable card and mana advantage lets you grind opponents out.
- Combo — Treasure generation enables Time Sieve extra-turn loops and other artifact combos.
- Blink — Flickering Tivit retriggers council's dilemma for stacks of tokens each turn.
Combos
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets + Time Sieve
→ Near-infinite turns, Lock
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets + Time Sieve + Academy Manufactor
→ Lock, Infinite turns, Near-infinite turns
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets + Deadeye Navigator
→ Infinite colored mana if your opponent allows it, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets + Time Sieve + Mondrak, Glory Dominus
→ Infinite turns, Near-infinite turns, Lock
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets + Time Sieve + Anointed Procession
→ Infinite turns, Near-infinite turns, Lock
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BUW), by popularity.
