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Heartmender
Creature — Elemental
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a -1/-1 counter from each creature you control.
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.)
Rulings (7)
When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.
Jun 7, 2013
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.
Jun 7, 2013
If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
Jun 7, 2013
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