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Log in RULINGS 2024-09-20 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

Its easy for a niche card to be strong within its niche - and sometimes a card like that is simply so strong that it takes a deck from being a fun idea into a crushing way to play Commander - but its far rarer for a card to work in decks that its not intended for

There are downsides to going Naya, however: we need to run more nonbasic lands for a consistent 3C manabase, so it's much harder to run cards like Ruination and Magus of the Moon

The alternate commander, Celes, buffs characters with +1 counters if they come back from the graveyard