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
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

wallisface on Permanent Destruction

4 hours ago

Some thoughts:

• I would be playing Ashen Rider instead of Angel of Despair, as the mana-costs are irrelevant (the games not going long enough to cast either) but exiling instead of destroying is much stronger (particularly as there's a bunch of indestructible cards and lands available).

• Zirda, the Dawnwaker seems very weak/useless here, as for the cost of getting it into play you could have just triggered Necrotic Sliver anyway. Though Necrotic Sliver also feels very slow clumsy regardless of whether there's a cost reduction. Personally I'd be thinking just running 8 creatures, the Ashen Rider and Angel of Despair, would serve you better.

• You need some proactive ways to pitch your high-mana creatures into the graveyard for reanimation. Bone Shards could be good for this purpose, running the full playset of Collective Brutality would also be helpful.

• I'd suggest running a single Unburial Rites so that you can fetch up a reanimation effect in a pinch with Unmarked Grave.

My changes would be something like removing the 4x Necrotic Sliver, 2x Zirda, the Dawnwaker, 2x Inquisition of Kozilek, 2x Unmarked Grave, and 1x Footsteps of the Goryo, and in their place adding in 4x Ashen Rider, 1x Collective Brutality, 1x Persist, 1x Unburial Rites, and 4x Bone Shards

Icbrgr on Modern Horizons Light

1 month ago

I am curious if players would be interested in a Modern format which included cards that Modern horizons sets have retroactively made old standard cards legal into the format but excluded cards that were created out of the aether.

• Solitary Confinement

• Counterspell

• Braids, Cabal Minion

• Flame Rift

• Quirion Ranger

These would be example of cards that would be legal because they were previously existing cards that went through standard at some point.

• The One Ring

• Thought Monitor

• Solitude

• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

• Ignoble Hierarch

• Persist

would be examples of cards that would not be allowed because they never went through standard.

The follow-up question would be does Magic the Gathering have a preexisting cardpool that is not on the reserved list to create such a format and keep it healthy/diverse? And could this be done while keeping Modern and Legacy/vintage separate identities? In theory in such a format we would certainly lose Force of Negation but could possibly get access to Force of Will if it were to be printed or made legal.

Origins of My Intentions

I have always loved the idea of Modern because it was a non rotating format that I could find a home for both old and new cards... but at the same time I wasnt an active player/investor in the very beginnings of magic... I always felt gatekept from paper legacy play because I would never be able to in a fiscally responible way get access to all the tools available to me due to the reserved list... and I respect that for what it is.... for a longtime I felt gatekept from Entering Modern simply because of the price of Fetchlands and thank god they have been meaningfully reprinted so now are far more accesible.

But With Modern horizons it just feels sad knowing that Modern is ultimatly a soft rotating format based on the whims of whatever comes in the next Modern Horizons set....or some set like the Lord of the rings set whichj just comes into modern for some reason.

This is kinda what is pushing me towards Pioneer.... but I just cant help but feel frustrated.... Dont get me wrong I honestly don't hate Modern Horizons in its entirety I was really happy about getting access to old magic cards and that felt fun and cool to me...like a taste of getting into legacy or something.... but something about legacy I NEVER had interest in was random spinoff product entering the format.... Commander cards...Universes beyond cards... Planchase cards ect ect.

Currently the top 3 deck in Modern

• The One Ring Tron

• Crashing footfalls Cascade

• Rakdos Scam

Azoth2099 on Kaalia's Treasure Trove

3 months ago

lhetrick13

Nice Kaalia of the Vast list! Loving some of these picks, like Rune-Scarred Demon, Burning-Rune Demon, Vilis, Broker of Blood, Hoarding Broodlord & Ancient Copper Dragon.

I've found that a mix of Reanimator and Stax is the best way to not only keep the deck from being overtaken, but to also increase it's resiliency & reduce it's reliance on it's Commander cheating Creatures into play to get the wheels spinning, as the deck itself cheats them into play intrinsically with the Commander's effect adding extra spice for a very focused yet multipronged strategy. Far more powerful & consistent than doubling up on triggers as a deck philosophy imo.

Underworld Breach, Entomb, Buried Alive, Unmarked Grave, Persist, Reanimate, & Final Parting are all crazy good in this context. Certain key Stax pieces like Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Drannith Magistrate & Grand Abolisher will stop whatever your opponents are trying to do while you advance.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded is way too good not to include in the list, though. It's synergy with Dockside Extortionist can straight up win you the game immediately if you have enough life to pay for combo assembly in this theoretical Reanimator build. I'd also recommend Ancient Gold Dragon, as it gives you insane board pressure in addition to nuking everyone in conjunction with Dragon Tempest. Sneak Attack is also empowered in this Reanimator approach, especially with the emphasis on ETBs.

I think the deck needs a bit more card draw & Tutors, though, especially for the budget. Vampiric Tutor, Enlightened Tutor & Gamble just got reprinted, so they're decently cheap right now. Scroll Rack, Sensei's Divining Top, Esper Sentinel, Archivist of Oghma, Dark Confidant, Dark Tutelage & of course Necropotence are worth consideration. Tectonic Reformation could also be very powerful here considering how many lands you're running. Cards like Valakut Awakening  ^Flip & Into the Fire can be deceptively powerful with other utility outside of just drawing cards.

Lastly, I'd recommend both Mother of Runes & Giver of Runes. Excellent protection.

Balaam__ on Griselbrand Storm (Win Turn 1)

3 months ago

I think the card slot Persist occupies could be better filled by something else. The only viable target is Chancellor of the Tangle and that card alone doesn’t really validate its inclusion. Consider a play set of Dark Ritual instead, as fast mana seems to be a priority here.

The_Warleader on Mind Blast -Modern

7 months ago

Sweet deck! Very reminiscent of an old-school legacy deck Draco-Blast. Here's some ideas for this:

I think you need, at the least, a playset of Lightning Bolt to finish off your opponents after you've hit them once. I don't think you can expect to hit them twice, and if you hit one of your eight 15 cmc targets, you'll put them into bolt range if they've shocked themselves or fetched twice. It also is nice to just have some sort of creature removal main board, since the format is so fast and creature-dependent.

Sphinx of Foresight seems a bit too ambitious at 4 mana to achieve what you want it to. I would just cut those for 4 Serum Visions.

I think you only need the eight 15 drops in Autochton Wurm and Shadow of Mortality. I would cut the rest. If you play too many of these cards your draws will be too gunked up with cards that don't do anything. You're goal is probably just to hit them once with one of these, so in theory you only need to see one per game.

I would play temples over the crystal grottos ( Temple of Epiphany , etc.)

The Summoning Trap idea I think might be a bit too cute as you aren't really playing many creature spells that will get countered. But maybe if you play more surveil cards you could play a playset of Persist ? Something to consider anyway.

Hope this helps, good luck!

NiceKrispyTreat on Inalla's Xerox Machine

7 months ago

Ended up replacing Mirror Gallery with Vela the Night-Clad. Also replaced Passwall Adept and Wanderwine Prophets with Persist and Molten Echoes.

aholder7 on

7 months ago

You could try to go more into the reanimation cheat out creatures strat and use Persist on top of unearth.

NiceKrispyTreat on Inalla's Xerox Machine

8 months ago

Plan to cut: - Passwall Adept - Wanderwine Prophets - Probably some other stuff

Might add: - Persist for combo with Dualcaster Mage and Ashnod's Altar OR combo with Dualcaster Mage, Molten Echoes, and Viscera Seer - Molten Echoes for combo with Bloodline Necromancer and Viscera Seer - Phyrexian Altar for combo with Dualcaster Mage and Persist - Disallow - Mystic Remora