Persist means When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owners control with a -1/-1 counter on it. Id like to point out that while the rules more vaguely state permanent and not creature, all of the cards that actively have the persist ability are creatures or grant it to creatures
Age has been kind to this Electric-type magnet, but Magneton's most valuable cards aren't exclusive to older sets, with a gorgeous modern promo card making an appearance among the best
You can tell how long an MTG content creator has been playing by how often they refer to Treasure tokens as Lotus Petal
The card is sitting at $255, marginally more than Hades, but it does seem to be dropping slightly
What the reprint-corrected methodology adds is a cleaner signal: by counting only the year a design first appeared , the jump is attributable to new creative output rather than reprints of old legends cycling into new sets