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
Cards will come from a variety of sets but mainly from the Commander sets
This combination of both print treatment and varied artwork will best maximize the visual effect to allow for your cards to pop, both on the battlefield and in a curated binder
Surely, thats part of the decks functionality, but if I am consistently upsetting my friends for the sake of victory and, in turn, immediately becoming the problem once any match starts, no one in the pod would be pleased not even myself
Some of the cards in C/D/E tiers could be swapped around or ranked differently inside their tier depending on the day, but on the whole, thats where I stand with the late WoTC overachievers