persist card mtg Best Cards in (2026) — Top Picks for Commander & Beyond 1 counter on it. Persist (#42) (borderless)

An additional 5% of Play Boosters feature art cards with a gold-stamped artist signature or the Planeswalker symbol

Legendary Creature - Zombie Phyrexian Recursion (CTRL to add secondary) Removal Sheoldred Menace When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice

Making everyone lose two life each time they cast a noncreature spell is really punishing for spellslinger or artifact/enchantress decks in particular

For example, a player can't cycle Eternal Dragon or return an Eternal Dragon from their graveyard to hand if Pithing Needle naming Eternal Dragon is on the battlefield

Lorans Escape Weve seen 1-mana tricks that give hexproof and indestructible be popular so far, and Loran's Escape is another solid one

I suspect Voidmage will not remain in the A cube long at all with his ever declining play time unless a really juicy wizard lord is printed