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Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Blue

2 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, Shadows over Innistrad Promos printing
Shadows over Innistrad Promos PSOI · No. 88s 2016-04-08

Card text

{2}{U}{U}
Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare
Target opponent mills thirteen cards. {3}{U}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery. // Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.
Keywords: Skulk, Transform, Mill
EDHREC rank #14328 Mythic Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

3 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

A sorcery can't be put onto the battlefield and a permanent can't transform into a sorcery. If an effect exiles Persistent Nightmare and then instructs you to return it to the battlefield, it remains face up in exile (unless that effect instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed, in which case it returns as Persistent Nightmare). If an effect instructs you to transform Persistent Nightmare, the instruction is ignored.

2016-04-08 · Wizards of the Coast

If you cause a creature to have 0 power or less, use the actual value (which may be negative) to determine whether it can block or be blocked. A creature with skulk and 0 or less power most likely won't be blocked, but it won't deal combat damage and won't trigger any abilities that trigger when combat damage is dealt.

2016-04-08 · Wizards of the Coast

Skulk matters only as blockers are chosen. Modifying either creature's power after blockers are chosen won't cause the attacking creature to become unblocked.

2016-04-08 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, Shadows over Innistrad Promos printing
Shadows over Innistrad Promos
PSOI · #88s
Mythic
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Black Knight Games · Condition LP · Foil
Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, Shadows over Innistrad printing
Shadows over Innistrad
SOI · #88
Mythic
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Black Knight Games · Condition MP