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[QUOTE=olataro]When a permanent is sent to exile, does it loses all the counters present on it?[/quote]

Yes.

400.7. An object that moves from one zone to another becomes a new object with no memory of, or relation to, its previous existence. There are six exceptions to this rule:

The exceptions all deal with effects that need to be able to track the moving object in order to function. None of the exceptions involve counters.

[quote]Eg: argent sphinx goes to exile after receiving 2 poison counters?[/QUOTE]

How are you doing that? Getting poison counters on creatures? I can't think of a way...

I mean if my argent sphinx was poisoned by 2 poison counters and went to exile, would the poison counters be removed from it?

Hmm, so that means planeswalkers are vulnerable to exile to. If i exile a planeswalker, does it mean the planeswalker will have no counters when it returns?

Poison counters can't be assigned to creatures. I assume you're speaking of damage done to Argent Sphinx by a creature with Infect; creatures with Infect deal damage to players in the form of Poison counters, but to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters. As with any other counter, these counters will fall off when the Sphinx changes zones.

Planeswalkers always enter the battlefield with the number of loyalty counters in their bottom right counters; it's simply written into the rules of the game. Exiling and returning a 'walker will simply reset them to their starting value.

Nice. Which means we could strategise its power! Thx!