Creatures with persist have to die for the ability to trigger, which means they do hit the graveyard first as part of this process
The only difference is it doesn't put your graveyard back into your deck
To get to your big blue sphinxes faster Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is a salty way, but rightfully so, Misleading Signpost does impressive redirecting work and sticks around as a good blue mana rock, and Midnight Clock does the same, except sing a bibbity-bobbity-boo and it gives you a bunch of fresh cards, thankfully it does not specify Enchanted Carriage
It produces so much value on ETB and attacks, and regardless of how the votes break, youre up five artifacts for the Time Sieve combo
Again, the card ended up being a bit more powerful than I anticipated
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