Persistent Specimen
Foundations Jumpstart 473 • common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Collector number
- 473
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Scott Murphy
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
2 generic mana black mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
"The jaw bone's connected to the skull bone. The skull bone's connected to the . . . uh . . . hook thingy."— Garl, stitcher's assistant
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Persistent Specimen is a card released in the Foundations Jumpstart set, designed to function within Magic: The Gathering's 'Jumpstart' format. This format is built for accessibility, allowing players to quickly shuffle two themed decks together for a ready-to-play experience. The card serves as a recurring, low-cost creature, reflecting the design philosophy of providing reliable, thematic utility pieces that support graveyard-centric strategies in limited play environments.
The art and mechanical identity of the card align with the grim, necromantic aesthetic typical of black-aligned cards in the game. It was developed as part of the broader Foundations project, which aims to provide a stable, evergreen pool of cards for newer players while maintaining the complexity expected by veterans. Like many cards in this series, it focuses on repeatable game actions that teach fundamental mechanics of resource management and battlefield persistence.
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