Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare MTG Card

Card setsReleased in 3 setsSee all
Converted mana cost4
RarityMythic
TypeCreature — Nightmare
Abilities Skulk
Power 1
Toughness 1

Text of card

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) When Persistent Nightmare deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

"It seemed so real!"

Text of card Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) When Persistent Nightmare deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

"It seemed so real!"

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Printings

The Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare Magic the Gathering card was released in 3 different sets between 2016-04-08 and 2023-03-21. Illustrated by Sean Sevestre.

#ReleasedNameCodeSymbolNumberFrameLayoutBorderArtist
12016-04-08Shadows over Innistrad PromosPSOI 88s2015TransformBlackSean Sevestre
22016-04-08Shadows over InnistradSOI 882015TransformBlackSean Sevestre
32023-03-21Shadows over Innistrad RemasteredSIR 902015TransformBlackSean Sevestre

Legalities

Magic the Gathering formats where Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare has restrictions

FormatLegality
HistoricbrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
OathbreakerLegal
GladiatorLegal
PioneerLegal
CommanderLegal
ModernLegal
VintageLegal
DuelLegal
ExplorerLegal
PennyLegal
TimelessLegal

Rules and information

The reference guide for Magic: The Gathering Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare card rulings provides official rulings, any errata issued, as well as a record of all the functional modifications that have occurred.

Date Text
2016-04-08 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 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 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.
2016-07-13 For more information on double-faced cards, see the Shadows over Innistrad mechanics article (http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/shadows-over-innistrad-mechanics).