How does SBA are checked in this situation?
A Kitchen Finks with a -1/-1 conter on it, and then the player uses Dromoka's Command to fight a creature with power 1 or higher and give Kitchen a +1/+1 counter. Since there's two SBA to check (+1/+1 with -1/-1 conter and lethal damage), which is applyed first?
Thanks for the help!

All state-based actions are checked at the same time, not one at a time. After the Command is done resolving, we have two state-based actions that want to apply: the game wants the Finks to go to the graveyard since it has lethal damage marked on it, and the game wants to remove the +1/+1 and the -1/-1 counter from the Finks, and both happen at the same time. Since there's never a point where the Finks is on the battlefield and it doesn't have a -1/-1 counter on it, persist will not trigger for the Finks.

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