Card

Murderous Redcap

Mana cost {2}{B/R}{B/R}

Creature — Goblin Assassin 2/2

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 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.)

Part of 52 known combos, 29 of them two-card. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Uncommon · SHM · #192
Cheapest printing
€0.73
EDHREC salt
0.33
Color identity
Black, Red
Keywords
Persist

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Celes, Rune Knight, Gev, Scaled Scorch, Metallic Mimic, First Day of Class, Grumgully, the Generous, Rhythm of the Wild, Uncivil Unrest, Cathars' Crusade, The Great Henge, Renata, Called to the Hunt, Solemnity, Arwen, Weaver of Hope, Master Chef, Tromell, Seymour's Butler, Railway Brawler, Bloodspore Thrinax, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Warden of the Grove, Bioengineered Future, Thunderous Velocipede, Surrak and Goreclaw, Master Biomancer, Juniper Order Ranger, Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder, Zameck Guildmage, Combine Guildmage, Cayth, Famed Mechanist, Support Mission, Captain Kathryn Janeway (early with Celes, Rune Knight, Cathars' Crusade, The Great Henge, Juniper Order Ranger)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

52 known combos, 29 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2013-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
  • 2013-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2013-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2008-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    Murderous Redcap’s power is checked at the time the ability resolves. If it’s left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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