Annex Sentry
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When this creature enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less until this creature leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #8673
Annex Sentry enters, exiles any nonland permanent until it leaves — that's a Banishing Light stapled to a 2/3 lifelink body for three mana. The cost is that the permanent comes back when Annex Sentry dies, which means it belongs in decks that can flicker it repeatedly or sacrifice it on command, not as a straight removal spell. Elesh Norn effects that double the trigger on entry make the exile that much harder to undo.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn's proliferate engine keeps Annex Sentry tapped down permanently: the exile trigger fires, and the oil counters needed to phase it out stack fast enough that the enchanted permanent rarely returns.
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa proliferates every combat, which accelerates the oil-counter clock on Annex Sentry and turns a temporary exile into a near-permanent lock while Ixhel swings overhead.
Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Vishgraz, the Doomhive floods the board with toxic Mites, and Annex Sentry's lifelink body contributes to the life-total swing that makes the poison clock lethal faster.
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines doubles every enters-the-battlefield trigger, so Annex Sentry exiles two nonland permanents on entry — and with flicker effects in the 99, that scales into a one-sided permanent lock.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Annex Sentry is a Commander card through and through — the oil-counter mechanic is incremental enough that it needs a proliferate shell or repeated flicker to pull ahead, and 100-card singleton gives it the supporting cast it wants. In Modern and Pioneer it's outclassed by cheaper, unconditional removal that doesn't hand the permanent back when it dies. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a three-mana 2/3 with a conditional payoff. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where a phyrexian-tribal or proliferate signature spell might make Annex Sentry worth a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Annex Sentry is bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without thinking about cost. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow homes tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no risk buying in.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.