Even more than just providing added value, persist is particularly interesting in the ways it interacts with +1/+1 counters among other effects
Worse is unplayable, better is where you want to be
Each deck contains two face legends, fifteen other new-to- Magic cards, and a foil-etched display commander
Some even tried to keep up with the T2 (Standard) in their own way, but most simply used the cards they had regardless of the set and often didn't even know about the existence of formats
meant for limited and legal in eternal formats) There is an ancillary 100 card Purple Reign Commander Expansion
Oviya does something very similar, allowing the player to put a creature or artifact onto the battlefield from their hand for the low cost of a single green mana, and subsequently gives any artifacts put onto the battlefield this way two +1/+1 counters