Persistent Constrictor
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Zombie Snake
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 3
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander #22 (rare)
- Price
- $13.49 USD
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control.
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.)
Persistent Constrictor has 2 printings, first in Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). EDHREC ranks it #2,839 among Commander cards. It appears most in Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls decks (16,829 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Persistent Constrictor
- Endless Punishment - Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander, led by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
Commanders that run Persistent Constrictor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls: 16,829 decks
- Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 8,254 decks
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons: 2,949 decks
- Massacre Girl, Known Killer: 2,915 decks
- Aphelia, Viper Whisperer: 2,796 decks
- Gisa, the Hellraiser: 2,050 decks
- Maha, Its Feathers Night: 1,809 decks
- The Scorpion God: 1,526 decks
Often played with Persistent Constrictor
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the target creature is an illegal target as Persistent Constrictor's first ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No player will lose life.
- : If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. A creature's persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.
- : 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 as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had -1/-1 counters on it at that point.
- : If a card with persist is removed from the graveyard after it dies but before the ability trigger resolves, it won't be returned to the battlefield.
- : Once persist returns the creature, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras that were attached to it won't return to the battlefield. Equipment that was attached to it will remain unattached. Any counters that were on it won't be put on the new creature.