First printed in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026)
Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior
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.)
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: Remove any number of counters from target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
2/2
- Illustrated by
- Kai Carpenter
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (3)
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.007 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL), Premier Draft | 52.7% | -2.3 | +0.2 | 7109 |
| Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL), Sealed | 56.2% | -0.3 | -3.8 | 878 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
14 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Ashnod's Altar + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Phyrexian Altar + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Altar of Dementia + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity + Viscera Seer
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB…: Carrion Feeder + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity + Umbral Collar Zealot
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity + Woe Strider
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity + Yahenni, Undying Partisan
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Bloodflow Connoisseur + Reveillark + Rhys, the Evermore + Solemnity
