phantasmal image not working
opponent copied my woodfall primus in a vintage cube draft game. phantsmal image was targeted and died as it was supposed to but once in graveyard it still came back as the game thought it was woodfall primus and still had the persist ability. once in graveyard i don't believe it is the same card so it shouldn't have the ability to do this.
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Blazer97x#68323
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Rezzahan#77802
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Persist, like all dies triggers, is a leaves-the-battlefield trigger. And those trigger based on the game state PRIOR to the death of the creature. The persist trigger will track the card, whatever it may be, into the graveyard, and pull it out again. The Image does not have persist in the graveyard, but that's irrelevant. What matters is, that the card had persist on the battlefield.