You might be saying, "but I can't win without removal with this thing out!" Aye, you can't, but let's look past that. You've bashed your opponent to -5 life with the persecutor. You have no removal, but, you, with your more efficient creature, ruled the board and are sitting at...let's say more than 10 life. In this creature-heavy Zendikar standard, odds are their overtime counterstrike will involve creatures. If their creatures are smaller, they're gonna get eaten. If they drop something BIGGER...well, what are they gonna do with that? Attack?
Things the Persecutor doesn't like:
-Wall of Denial: Oh, but how it doesn't like Wall of Denial. Gatekeeper of Malakir is probably his best bet (only bet?) in this situation.
-Baneslayer Angel: Protection from Demons! Lifelink! 5/5! Flying! Bugger me! The worst part here is that Baneslayer is the comeback kid against the Persecutor. If your opponent is in the negatives, that means you're waiting on removal, which means...
-Pacifism variants: You've nullified my demon AND kept his static ability on the table? Nooooooo! Nobody is really running pacifism variants right now. Oblivion Ring has taken up that role, but we may start seeing the sideboarding of "can't attack or block" enchantments if A.P. really starts going the distance.
-Counter Control: Control will give this lug a big snuggle every time he flaps over and swipes at them with his smoking hellsword. By the time they're into the negative health zone, they will have a big ol' grip of counterspells to protect him with. Then they'll hunker down and build up to their win condition in comfort. I have seen some canny players pointing out that there are uncounterable ways to get rid of Persey, such as Bone Splinters. Strike me as a good sideboard card for decks sporting the demon.
This thing is going for twenty bills on presale sites and on ebay. I don't expect it to go for any less unless the 2-mana counterspell makes some kind of decent comeback in Worldwake.
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