Gravelgill Axeshark

Mana Value

5

Rarity

common

Gravelgill Axeshark

Creature — Merfolk Soldier

{4}{U/B}
Color Identity: B U

Card Text

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Power/Toughness: 3/3

Keywords

Persist

Set

Shadowmoor

(SHM)

EDHREC Rank

#29,161

If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they’ll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can’t return to the battlefield.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player’s persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player’s persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won’t trigger and the card won’t return to the battlefield. That’s because persist checks the creature’s existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.

Wotc — June 07, 2013

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