Persistent Specimen
Creature — Skeleton · 
Persistent Specimen is part of 4 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Crystalline Crawler and Bhaal, Lord of Murder.
Persistent Specimen
Creature — Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- Mana value
- 1
- Power/Toughness
- 1/1
- Color identity
Frequently combined with
The cards that most often join Persistent Specimen across all of its 4 combos.
Roles in combos
Persistent Specimen can stand in for these generic cards, so it also fits the combos that require them.
- Creature Castable for One Colored Mana
- Creature with MV<=1
- Creature Castable with Two or Less Mana
- Creature with MV = 1
What Persistent Specimen provides to the combos it is part of.
- Creature with "Pay Mana: Return this creature from GY to BF"
Combos with Persistent Specimen
4 combos legal in Commander.
Color Identity: B, R, G
Cards in combo:
Bhaal, Lord of Murder
Persistent Specimen
Crystalline Crawler
Ashnod's Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: B, R, G
Cards in combo:
Bhaal, Lord of Murder
Persistent Specimen
Cryptic Trilobite
Phyrexian Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: B, R, G
Cards in combo:
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Crystalline Crawler
Umbral Collar Zealot
Persistent Specimen
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite colored mana
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite surveil
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Color Identity: B, R, G, W
Cards in combo:
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Crystalline Crawler
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Persistent Specimen
Results in combo:
Infinite artifact tokens
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite colored mana
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite self-discard triggers
Infinite draw triggers
Infinite rummaging
Infinite Blood tokens
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
