Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Enchantment // Sorcery — Adventure

Mana cost: {5}{B}{B} // {1}{B}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

triggered — brings a card back

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

on-cast — shrinks a creature by -3/-3

on-cast — gains you 2 life

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, gain life.

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

an Adventure sorcery is cast — 77 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

  1. Lucky Clover — When Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn is cast, Lucky Clover copies a spell

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

When Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

  1. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  2. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  3. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — Caesar, Legion's Emperor puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  4. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  5. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  6. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  7. Tainted Aether — Tainted Aether puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  8. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  9. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back
  10. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn can bring back

2,759 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

When Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

255 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

  1. Spellweaver Volute — When Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn is cast, Spellweaver Volute copies a spell

433 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Virtue of Persistence is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When a creature enters thanks to Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.