A few blocks and Attrition activations later, and after each of Blood Artist, Falkenrath Noble, and Harvester of Souls had triggered eight times, I was up to a comfortable 53 life and Gerrard was down to 33
Once in play the persist ability lets the Shepherd sit as insurance against wrath effects for all the non-persist creatures you might have, or any that already used their persist ability once
If we take a look at Arena's Store, we can deduce that common card styles are set at 400 gems , uncommon styles are 600 gems , a rare card style costs 1,000 gems , and mythic styles come in at 1,200 gems
The good news: you can handle all of this cleanly, with about ten minutes of setup and a tiny bit of discipline
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