Persist

Sorcery

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

Icbrgr on Grog - Grixis Tempo Smash

1 month ago

omg I love this! I'm running a hollow one variant but I really like how this list seems to play around Orcish Bowmasters by not playing Burning Inquiry/Goblin Lore! Great call with the LOTR creatures and Persist!

Davinoth on K'rrik, Manipulator of Life (Totals)

2 months ago

Deck looks like a lot of fun to play! You have quite a few inefficiencies but after having read through the comments I see no fault in your build path! Sometimes throwing together a stack of cards you like in a color you like is all it takes to have fun! :)

I would recommend adding some Reanimation spells to the deck! There's some great budget options in things like Victimize and Persist, but also Animate Dead and Reanimate are much cheaper than they once were!

ACrispyTaco on PLEASE HELP (LF SUGGESTIONS/FEED BACK)

3 months ago

Nice deck so far. I also really like Zombies and have a zombie recursion themed deck. Check it out for some ideas. Gravewater

I would consider adding Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Cauldron of Souls By themselves they can keep your zombies on the field, but when they are both on the field together their abilities cancel each other out and will keep zombies coming back over and over until they are removed.

Also pulling Rot Hulk from the Graveyard with cards like Persist comboed with Gray Merchant of Asphodel is disgusting.

Im not a huge fan of most Planeswalkers except Liliana, Dreadhorde General is pretty good. They tend to get focused down quick and some their best abilities require a minimum of 3-4 turns to get built up.

Hope this helps!

wallisface on Card Discussion: Grim Discovery

8 months ago

The problems with it, as I see:

• It's sorcery speed and two mana, which is both very slow and quite high-mana for a card that doesn't apply any pressure at all (it's not affecting the board state, and only setting you up for future-turn plays). Scam decks typically rely on applying constant pressure - they're not designed to out-grind the opponent, their plan is to cause early-game havoc and then win while the opponent is trying to stabilize from their turn-1 trauma. I don't think Grim Discovery is a good fit in that regard.

• In regard to trying this in a Yawgmoth, Thran Physician brew, I just don't see them wanting this kind of effect. They already have tons of ways to fetch creatures into play, and so can get additional copies of whatever happened to die. Plus they have Agatha's Soul Cauldron which does a much better job of turning the graveyard-creatures into huge value. They also don't want to have to rely on the graveyard too-heavily, as that's going to be one of the primary ways the opponent will be attacking the deck post-sideboard.

• Generally speaking, the card is only barely creating a net-positive in card-advantage, and only really in the form of a land. That's a pretty low return considering that the card costs 2 mana, and only puts these cards into hand. Compare this to Unearth or Persist which get the creature into play immediately and so have immediate impact - while they're not giving you a land with their effects, they're giving you some virtual mana-advantage by yeeting the creature into play instead of making you have to go to the trouble of casting it.

imo it's not seeing play because it's just not any good. It's really slow, barely creates any kind of meaningful card-advantage, is liable to be useless if your deck is already graveyard focused (because your opponent will bring hate), and there are just much stronger effects in this vein which more proactively advance the boardstate.

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM! (Scapeshift + Analyst)

9 months ago

I really need to go through and update the deck’s description (lots has changed since ban update) but really liking my new concept of Burning-Rune Demon + Persist tech to get Primeval Titan in hand with a threat on board. Might actually be better than the namesake card against removal, since we don’t need extra mana for Tolaria West shenanigans.

Still playing around with numbers, and I do sort of miss Elvish Reclaimer as well, going to keep playtesting before revamping the entire description.

RangerOfPower on 7-Drop Tribal

9 months ago

king-saproling I've actually tested Street Wraith and Gitaxian Probe and wasn't really a fan. These cards don't really give me confidence if a starting hand is keepable or not. With my luck, they turn into the worst card I could cantrip into and end up bricking my hand haha.

If I can find more room for ramp Farseek would be the first include. Dark Ritual is close too, but I think Sacrifice would be a better fit as a ritual for this deck. For Unmarked Grave and Persist, there just aren't enough good non-legendary 7 drops (bummer, I know). And I just straight up can't afford Intuition.

But all that said, Dance of the Dead seems like a fantastic include. I don't know how I missed this one before but this is exactly the type of card this deck needs.

And I was skeptical about Mesmeric Orb since unlike all the other selfmill effects in the deck, it doesn't help find lands. But the sheer volume of cards it mills might outweigh the downside of not replacing itself with a land. I'm definitely gonna test this one out.

Thanks for the ideas!

king-saproling on 7-Drop Tribal

9 months ago

Also Mesmeric Orb might be neat here

king-saproling on 7-Drop Tribal

9 months ago

This is a really neat deck! What do you think of these? Gitaxian Probe, Street Wraith, Dark Ritual, Farseek, Intuition, Dance of the Dead, Unmarked Grave, Persist