Gurgling Anointer
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #13575
Gurgling Anointer puts a 2/1 body on the board every time a creature dies and gets exiled — in the right shell, that's a flood of tokens with almost no upkeep. The cost is a narrow condition: exile-on-death matters, which makes it a build-around rather than a universal staple, but Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor turns that condition into a feature.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor exiles opponents' creatures that deal combat damage and triggers card draw off creatures you attack with — Gurgling Anointer converts those exiled creatures directly into 2/1 tokens, so the same creatures that refill your hand also grow your board.
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 |
Gurgling Anointer is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with the number of players, the game goes long enough for repeated exile triggers to matter, and black sacrifice or combat-damage shells have room for the slot. In Modern or Legacy, a three-mana 2/2 that produces tokens conditionally can't compete with the efficiency those formats demand. Pioneer is similarly hostile; the card would need an immediate, repeatable exile engine on the same turn to matter, and that support doesn't exist at competitive density. Commander is where Gurgling Anointer earns its place, specifically in decks already exiling creatures rather than sending them to graveyards.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Gurgling Anointer is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a commons box or throwing it into a cart to hit free shipping. Bulk rares with narrow conditions rarely climb unless they intersect a breakout deck, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the specific build that wants it, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.