Rhys, the Evermore
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed #354 (rare)
- Price
- $0.43 USD
Flash
When Rhys enters, another target creature you control gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)
{W}, {T}: Remove any number of counters from target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Rhys, the Evermore has 3 printings, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). EDHREC ranks it #11,096 among Commander cards. It appears most in Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight decks (1,453 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Rhys, the Evermore most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight: 1,453 decks
- Yuna, Hope of Spira: 246 decks
- Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal: 172 decks
- Havi, the All-Father: 105 decks
- Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings: 104 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai: 96 decks
- Ao, the Dawn Sky: 79 decks
- Colonel Autumn: 44 decks
Often played with Rhys, the Evermore
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the target creature dies but that card leaves the graveyard before the persist ability resolves, it won't be returned to the battlefield.
- : 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 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.