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Persistent Specimen | MTG Deck Rec

Persistent Specimen

Persistent Specimen

Creature — Skeleton

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Legal in Commander
About $0.27

What it does

reanimate-self

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Art from Persistent Specimen by Scott Murphy

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