Putrid Goblin

Creature — Zombie Goblin

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.)

Too stupid to survive, too dumb to die.

2 / 2

Set

The List (PLST #MH1-101)

Rarity

Common

Mana value

2

Released

2024-08-02

Artist

Winona Nelson

EDHREC rank

#3,808

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos 210

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Format legality

Rulings

• 2019-06-14

  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.

• 2019-06-14

  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. Putrid Goblin’s persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.

• 2019-06-14

  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.

• 2019-06-14

  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.