Tokens are removed from the game when theyre put into a zone besides the battlefield, so tokens with persist will cease to exist before persist can put them back into play
That said, all of this is here to serve three major purposes: one, to get old timers up to speed on everything theyve missed out on since the good ol days two, to get fakers acclimatized to the rules in order to maintain a high level of authenticity (and therefore believability) three, to learn the rules to therefore know how to properly break them The latter is one of the driving forces of my own artistic career, which I first realized after reading about the concept from Calvin & Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson
Back in 2022, a PSA 10-rated shadowless Charizard from 1999 sold for $420,000 in a PWCC Marketplace auction
Fiend Hunter and Leonin Relic-Warder are amazing with them, as if you return them to hand with their ETB triggers on the stack, the permanent theyre removing will be exiled permanently