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Persistent Petitioners

Creature — Human Advisor

{1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10062
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Persistent Petitioners card art
Persistent Petitioners mills four cards per tap and can do it repeatedly at instant speed — run enough copies and you can drain a library in a single turn cycle. Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, turning four cards into eight, while Syr Konrad, the Grim converts each milled card into a damage ping, giving the strategy a second axis of victory.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

51.0% of decks · synergy 0.49

Bruvac the Grandiloquent's ability to double every mill event is the single best multiplier for Persistent Petitioners — what would take twelve activations to empty a 60-card library now takes six, and with multiple Petitioners tapping in a turn that math collapses fast.

02
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

38.9% of decks · synergy 0.39

Katilda and Lier lets you cast Persistent Petitioners from the graveyard, meaning removal doesn't actually remove them — each copy you lose comes back as another activation waiting to happen, making the mill clock almost impossible to disrupt.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Persistent Petitioners genuinely thrives, because the singleton rule explicitly exempts cards with this text, letting you build a critical mass of copies that no other format can support at the same scale. In Pauper the card is legal and the common slot is cheap, but without a commander to amplify the mill the plan is slower and more exposed to disruption. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but the competitive landscape is hostile to a tap-to-mill strategy that doesn't interact meaningfully with fast combo decks. Pioneer offers a legal middle ground where Persistent Petitioners can anchor a mill deck, though dedicated mill payoffs there are sparser than in older formats.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data isn't available in the current feed for Persistent Petitioners, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given that it was printed in a widely opened set and sees most of its play in casual Commander rather than high-demand competitive formats, it has historically sat in bulk or near-bulk range — worth picking up a playset or more without much financial hesitation.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.