Cauldron of Souls

Public decks that run Cauldron of Souls

• Breed Lethality - Commander 2016, led by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
• Breed Lethality - Commander Anthology Volume II, led by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Commanders that run Cauldron of Souls most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Henzie "Toolbox" Torre: 2,922 decks
• Horobi, Death's Wail: 1,976 decks
• Celes, Rune Knight: 1,439 decks
• Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 1,339 decks
• Gev, Scaled Scorch: 917 decks
• Herigast, Erupting Nullkite: 855 decks
• The Scorpion God: 804 decks
• Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons: 544 decks

Often played with Cauldron of Souls

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Tower of Coireall
• Squee's Toy
• Oasis
• Kithkin Spellduster
• Heartmender
• Sacred Armory
• Nefashu
• Scale of Chiss-Goria
• Tooth of Chiss-Goria
• Gravebind

Rulings

• 2008-05-01: If a nontoken creature that gains persist this way is put into a graveyard, that card will be returned to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. However, because it’s a new object with no relation to its previous existence, the returned creature will not have persist.
• 2013-06-07: 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.
• 2013-06-07: 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.
• 2013-06-07: 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.
• 2013-06-07: When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.
• 2013-06-07: 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.
• 2013-06-07: If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
• 2013-06-07: 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.