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Shadowmoor (SHM | #49 | 2008-05-02)
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River Kelpie

3UU
Creature — Beast
Artist: Jeff Easley
All artists: Jeff Easley , Greg Hildebrandt , Tim Hildebrandt

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.

Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

3/3
U
$0.28 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Shadowmoor 49 Regular Nonfoil $2.20
Shadowmoor 49 Regular Foil $16.96
Commander 2019 93 Regular Nonfoil $0.57
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander 166 Regular Nonfoil $0.28
Tales of Middle-earth Commander 524 Borderless Nonfoil $5.35
Tales of Middle-earth Commander 524 Borderless Foil $6.12

Price History

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Printings (4)

River Kelpie — Shadowmoor
Shadowmoor
#49 Rare $2.20
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Jeff Easley
River Kelpie — Commander 2019
Commander 2019
#93 Rare $0.57
Regular Nonfoil
Jeff Easley
River Kelpie — Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
#166 Rare $0.28
Regular Nonfoil
Jeff Easley
River Kelpie — Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
#524 Rare $5.35
Borderless Nonfoil Foil
Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt

Rulings

2013-06-07 wotc
When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.
2013-06-07 wotc
The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.
2013-06-07 wotc
If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.
2013-06-07 wotc
If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.
2013-06-07 wotc
If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.
2013-06-07 wotc
If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
2013-06-07 wotc
If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
2008-05-01 wotc
River Kelpie doesn't give you the ability to cast spells from graveyards. Its second ability merely triggers whenever a spell is cast this way (by using Memory Plunder, for example).
2008-05-01 wotc
If you play a land card from a graveyard (by using Crucible of Worlds, for example), only the first ability triggers. That's because the land (which isn't a spell) is put directly onto the battlefield from the graveyard.
2008-05-01 wotc
If you cast River Kelpie itself from your graveyard (by using Yawgmoth's Will, for example), neither ability triggers. The first ability doesn't trigger because River Kelpie is put onto the stack; the second ability doesn't trigger because it works only while River Kelpie is already on the battlefield.
2008-05-01 wotc
If you cast another artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell from a graveyard, only the second ability triggers. That's because the card is put onto the stack, not onto the battlefield.
2008-05-01 wotc
If River Kelpie and another permanent are each put onto the battlefield from a graveyard at the same time, River Kelpie's first ability will trigger twice. (It will see the other permanent entering.)

Format Legality

Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Not Legal
Timeless Not Legal
Gladiator Not Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Not Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Legal