Does a card with Persist/Undying ever hit the graveyard?
Asked by Crayfish 8 years ago
I was wondering about the interactions between persist/undying cards and "when a creature is put into the graveyard" effects. Is the card put into the graveyard then moved, or does not hit the graveyard when undying/persist triggers? Thanks!
Example: Rendclaw Trow + Endless Whispers. Does Whispers trigger and I give the Trow to an opponent? OR does the Trow never hit the yard, so I get to keep him?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
To clarify, undying and persist are triggered abilities that trigger when a creature dies. Naturally, this means that the creature actually has to die in order for the ability to trigger. The ability will be placed onto the stack and must resolve in order to return the card to the battlefield.
By contrast, replacement effects such as that of Progenitus replace (hence the name) the event of "dies" or "goes to the graveyard" with something else, so the creature wouldn't actually die in that case.
Drilnoth says... #1
The creature does hit the graveyard before persist returns it to the battlefield, but in the example you give you would get the Rendclaw Trow back. Endless Whispers returns the creature to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step, whereas persist causes it to return long before that.
November 17, 2015 9:32 p.m.