Norn's Annex
Norn's Annex: Artifact, Commander Masters. Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays W/P On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{W/P}{W/P}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander Masters (CMM)
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Collector number
- 829
- Artist
- James Paick
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About Norn's Annex
Norn's Annex is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white artifact from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 829 in that set, with art by James Paick. It costs {3}{W/P}{W/P} to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from New Phyrexia (2011) to Commander Masters (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.21 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Norn's Annex by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Norn's Annex
Norn's Annex has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Wizards Play Network 2023 (PW23) #1 | Rare | 2023 |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) #83 | Rare | 2023 |
| The List (PLST) #NPH-17 | Rare | 2020 |
| New Phyrexia (NPH) #17 | Rare | 2011 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Norn's Annex, newest first.
- If you control Norn's Annex, your opponents can choose not to attack with a creature with an ability that says it must attack.
- If a player attacks with more than one creature, that player chooses how to pay each cost individually. For example, if you attack with two creatures, you may pay {W} for one cost and 2 life for the other.
- If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- Multiple Norn's Annexes controlled by the same player will each impose a cost to attack. Players choose how they pay each cost individually. For example, if a creature you control is attacking a player who controls two Norn's Annexes, you may pay {W} for one cost and 2 life for the other.
- Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
- As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
- To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
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