Glaciers was the ultimate in anti-Red for a minimal upkeep it turned all Mountains into Plains
What the reprint-corrected methodology adds is a cleaner signal: by counting only the year a design first appeared , the jump is attributable to new creative output rather than reprints of old legends cycling into new sets
The card is sitting at $255, marginally more than Hades, but it does seem to be dropping slightly
Persist means When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owners control with a -1/-1 counter on it. Id like to point out that while the rules more vaguely state permanent and not creature, all of the cards that actively have the persist ability are creatures or grant it to creatures
In constructed formats, you might be able to pack a red deck with thirty different ways to blast a creature to hell and back, but in limited you might only have two or three such spells