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Lingering Tormentor Eventide MTG card

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Lingering Tormentor

CREATURE — SPIRIT Uncommon
Eventide EVE #36 EDHREC #15,159
$0.65
-3.0% 7 days

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Lingering Tormentor Price Summary

Lingering Tormentor's current headline price is $0.65.

Lingering Tormentor Printings & Prices

1 printings

Lingering Tormentor has 1 tracked printing across 1 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes.

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Lingering Tormentor Rules Text & Legality

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Creature — Spirit — mana cost {3}{B}

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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.)

"The bogeyman doesn't disappear when you close your eyes."

Lingering Tormentor is legal in Modern, Legacy and Commander, and not legal in Standard, Pioneer and Pauper.

standard
Not legal
pioneer
Not legal
pauper
Not legal

Lingering Tormentor Rulings

5 most recent
  • Jun 7, 2013 If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
  • Jun 7, 2013 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.
  • Jun 7, 2013 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.
  • Jun 7, 2013 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.
  • Jun 7, 2013 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.

Reprints & Reprint Risk

2 printings

Lingering Tormentor has been reprinted 2 times.

Set Date Rarity Treatment
EVE #36 2008-07-25 Uncommon Standard
EVE #36 2008-07-25 Uncommon Standard

Lingering Tormentor in Commander

Lingering Tormentor is the #15,159 most-played card on EDHREC, down 313 places over the last 30 days.

Lingering Tormentor FAQ

How much is Lingering Tormentor worth?

Lingering Tormentor is worth about $0.65 for its cheapest playable printing as of Sep 23, 2026.

Is Lingering Tormentor legal in Commander?

Yes — Lingering Tormentor is legal in Commander. It is also legal in Modern and Legacy.

Has Lingering Tormentor been reprinted?

Yes — Lingering Tormentor has been reprinted 2 times, with 1 printings tracked on The Index.

Why is Lingering Tormentor cheap?

Lingering Tormentor trades at about $0.65 — 2 reprints keep supply plentiful, and Commander demand is modest (#15,159 on EDHREC).