The card is okay, is has its weaknesses: like the window between summoning it with 3 materials and attaching a 4th material leaves it very vulnerable plus the usual floodgate. But if you pull it off you get a good boss monster
The hazy deck overall really hinders this card, not being able to run spell/traps is a big downside
Not really Hydra can attach more material though only 1. Pillar is okay but if you start running more spell/traps your sphinx effect will never resolve
There's a skill that guarantees you get Sphinx's effect off always unless you have 0 cards in your deck. It's "Aroma Tactics", always see the top card of your deck. This way you can run many Pillars and not risk.
Tried it, bricks more often than any normal not tiered deck, traps do work in your first turn but after you just depend of top decking. labyrinth builder gets you the xyz first turn but with the drawback I mentioned above
Well, there are drawbacks both ways. I do use trap cards because there are some cards from the opponent that need to be stopped before Basiltrice can be set up. But it’s not an easy setup anyway.