🦁 Ancient Sphinx Pet in Grow a Garden — Prismatic

Ancient Sphinx is the Prismatic pet of the Anubis Egg, with a 0.5% hatch chance, or 1 egg in 200. It has two abilities, and both take something from you first: Ancient Guardian destroys three Rare or Legendary plants to push other plants 12 hours ahead with Mirage, and Ancient Protector removes 3 age from pets to refresh cooldowns and hand out XP.

Last verified November 8, 2026 against the Ancient Sphinx page, the Anubis Event page and the ability data on the Grow a Garden wiki.

📋 Ancient Sphinx at a glance

⚡ What Ancient Guardian does

The wiki's text: Occasionally destroys 3 Rare or Legendary plants to grow plants by 12h and apply Mirage! Per the ability data, every 23 minutes 20 seconds at base weight the Sphinx destroys 3 Rare or Legendary plants in your garden (plants with favorited fruit are skipped) and advances the growth of 3 other plants by 12 hours. Every fruit on those advanced plants gets the Mirage mutation (×25). The number of plants advanced rises to 6 at 100 kg; the number destroyed stays at 3.

That makes it a trade: three cheap plants for 36 hours of growth (12 hours on each of three plants) plus Mirage on all their fruit. The text doesn't say how it picks either set of plants, so keep favorited fruit on any Rare or Legendary plant you want to keep.

⚡ What Ancient Protector does

The wiki's text: Occasionally drains 3 age from your pets to refresh cooldowns and grant XP! The ability data: every 33 minutes 20 seconds at base weight it removes 3 age from pets and refreshes the ability cooldown of 3 pets in your garden (6 at 100 kg), and each of those pets gains 15,000 XP. The text doesn't say whether the 3 age come off one pet or several, or whether the refreshed pets are the same ones that lose age.

Refreshing cooldowns means the other pets' abilities fire again right away, so the Protector is strongest next to pets with long cooldowns. The XP partly offsets the lost age: 15,000 XP is more than an early age costs but much less than an age in the hundreds (see the age calculator).

📈 Ancient Guardian stats by weight

📈 Ancient Protector stats by weight

From the wiki's ability data (a base value, a step per kg and a cap). Pet mutations add more on top; the pet mutations list has them. Counts between whole numbers are shown as the formula gives them; the wiki doesn't say how the game rounds them.

Both cooldowns lose about 1% per kilogram and halve by 50 kg (11:40 and 16:40). The plant and pet counts double by 100 kg. The XP grows slowly, 15 per kilogram, so at 100 kg it is 16,500; the 30,000 cap is out of reach for any realistic weight. The pet KG calculator turns age into kg.

🥚 How to get it

Only the Anubis Egg and the Premium Anubis Egg hatch it, 0.5% each. The Anubis Egg comes from the Anubis Archaeology rewards (stages 5, 8, 12 and 19, five eggs per run) and from the Anubis Coin Shop for 3,000 Anubis Coins, 149 Robux or 149 Trade Tokens, with a 25% stock chance after 6 excavations. It hatches in 4 hours; the Premium egg hatches in 30 seconds. A Sepulchral Ancient Sphinx is the rarest result (5%) of the Sepulchral Premium Anubis Egg, itself a 1% result of the Premium Anubis Egg.

⚡ See Ancient Sphinx's ability at your pet's weight → Cooldowns, chances and amounts at any age up to 500, with pet mutation boosts.

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Other Anubis Event pets

• 🦂 Hiero Scorpion (Prismatic)
• 🦩 Bennu (Mythical)
• 🐍 Uraeus (Legendary)
• 🪲 Apshait (Rare)

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