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Persecute
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ninth Edition9ED · #151
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.35 € · 0.43 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- D. Alexander Gregory
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-07-29
Flavour text
"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind." —John Dryden, "The Hind and the Panther"
Rulings
The color is chosen on resolution.
