You can use this in conjunction with effects like Helm of the Host to make copies of powerful creatures, or just pay for itself by copying a Treasure token
Its best when paired with creatures that trigger off attacks or at the beginning of combat, like Hellrider and Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
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
Tierlist No Rank Grade it yourself Table of contents About Mutilate Mutilate, Sorcery, designed by Eric Peterson first released in Feb, 2002 in the set Torment and was printed exactly in 8 different ways
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With that in mind, if a scene existed in both games, we had our choice of showing it as the original game did, how the modern version interpreted it, or a unique fusion of both
