Backgrounds are a new kind of card in Battle for Baldurs Gate that can act as a second commander, as long as your first commander has Choose a Background on them
Then you can tap him for three to draw, discard, and then if it was an artifact, you can exile it and make an 0/2 Thoper artifact copy of that artifact with flying
If my searching is correct, there are seemingly only 88 Sphinxes in the game, which makes sense
be glad it's not Diogenes, considering what would have to go on his card, and B
Loxi: I think if you're already in a go wide token deck, this isn't too bad for the web-slinging cost as it can provide an alright board buff and reasonably make a lot of token dorks, as well as having the Human typing
The cards in Beta were different from Alpha due to different printing technologies being used