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Dockworker Drone
Artifact Creature — Robot
This enters with a +1/+1 counter.
When this dies, put this creature's counters on target creature you control.
Quickspell on 1/1 creature that enter with …
9 months ago
When Dockworker Drone dies while Isilu, Carrier of Twilight Flip is on the battlefield, when the drone returns to the battlefield due to Persist, does it die due to the -1/-1 counter, or does the persist counter and its own +1/+1 counter cancel out and it just enters as a 1/1 without any counters? Both counters are replacement effects that modify how the creature enters and intuitively I‘d think they cancel out, but the game is sometimes odd in that regard.
I looked up the ruling on MTGWiki, but it wasn’t clear to me. It only refers to persist triggering, but the phrase „despite the state-based action of +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters ‚canceling each other out‘“ is irritating.
„If a permanent with a +1/+1 counter on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to reduce its toughness to 0 or less or have lethal damage marked on it, it won't return to the battlefield despite the state-based action of +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters "canceling each other out". As the permanent last existed on the battlefield, it had a -1/-1 counter on it, so persist won't trigger.“
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Persist#:~:text=battlefield.-,If%20a%20permanent%20with,so%20persist%20won't%20trigger.
