persist mtg cards Price 1 counter on it Using Cayth with persist cards

+2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you."

Killian, Decisive Mentor and Eriette, the Beguiler are solid commanders for building around auras

From Bloomburrow , the deck gained Flamecache Gecko, which can add a "free" creature to the battlefield, and its discard-and-draw ability has excellent synergy with Agatha's Soul Cauldron

And that's something you have to understand to play this deck

Thanks to the energy mechanic, the deck has a ton of play, and each game (or even each turn) has a bunch of small choices about when and how to spend our energy, which is a fun challenge