Lesser Masticore
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Masticore
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Modern Horizons #225 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.37 USD
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
{4}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature.
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.)
Lesser Masticore has 1 printing, first in Modern Horizons (2019). EDHREC ranks it #7,692 among Commander cards. It appears most in Celes, Rune Knight decks (6,255 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Lesser Masticore most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Celes, Rune Knight: 6,255 decks
- Gev, Scaled Scorch: 1,777 decks
- Gorma, the Gullet: 1,014 decks
- Bartolomé del Presidio: 397 decks
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed: 336 decks
- Grumgully, the Generous: 295 decks
- Melira, Sylvok Outcast: 204 decks
- Long Feng, Grand Secretariat: 186 decks
Often played with Lesser Masticore
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : You must discard exactly one card to cast Lesser Masticore; you can't cast it without discarding a card, and you can't discard additional cards. If Lesser Masticore enters the battlefield without being cast (perhaps because of its persist ability) you don't discard a card.
- : 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.
- : 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 of counters on it. Lesser Masticore's persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.