Probably my favorite multicolor card of all time. This little lady has won me a lot of games.
Fragskull
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(20 votes)
A Red, White, and Blue Angel?! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Rainyday2012
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(18 votes)
A blue, white and red angel? France! France! France!
Milliardo_MV
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
A beautifully designed card that's well balanced and very powerful. Just evasion combined with haste and vigilance makes this a powerhouse. It’s like Arkoma with half the attack power and half the price but without the protection.
ZioKai
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Check out her sister Stoic Angel. This was the perfect card for finishing in the old Goblin Trenches deck archtype back in the day.
garbagegatherer
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(17 votes)
A White, Red, and Blue Angel? Netherlands! Netherlands! Netherlands!
capitalR
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(16 votes)
red, white, and blue? U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A!
bokwinkle0
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Well designed card. Hits all the marks. It's extremely powerful, but also extremely difficult to cast on turn 4. Just well done.
Powereslave
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
A powerhouse of a card. Represents each of the 3 colors excellently. White (Vigilance), Red (Haste), and Blue (flying).
It deserves a reprint with the new card frame and art that isn't so...ugly.
4.5/5
Omenchild
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(8 votes)
AMERICA, FLYING! Haha Team America lulz
EvilCleavage
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(11 votes)
France SUX! God Bless AMerica. I'm gonna make a deck called the U.S.A. dream team! 4 lightning angels, and uhhh... that's it!
nibelheim_valesti
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@EvilCleavage - Don't forget Numot...
achilleselbow
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Numot, Rakavolver, and Lightning Angel for the patriotic deck of your choice.
skew
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Ah, the all-time classic. My only wish is reprint with new frame and nice flavor text.
The art is, in my opinion, quite good, except there's too much red on the outfit - red hair would be enough.
DacenOctavio
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(9 votes)
It's America Angel.
cats_and_me
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Interesting synergy with Raka Sanctuary, because she both activates that enchantment ~and~ survived the mandatory pinging if she's the only creature on the board.. Red is probably a very important color for vigilance decks, because not only is this card the best creature with vigilance in the game, red also provides access to Seize The Day! :)
divine_exodus
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(8 votes)
Lightning Angel is effectively out of lightning bolt range. Well done wizards!
TPmanW
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
White angels already get 2 of the three abilities more often than not. They should've given it umm... some really blue effect.
AmericanVigor
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(9 votes)
America for the win.
faisjdas
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I LOVE off colour angels. Mono white angels are just soooo boring. We get new pretty terrible one in every set, and each is pretty much outclassed by our good friend BSA.
Off-colour angels are just so much more interesting. This girl especially.
Duskdale_Wurm
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Yea gotta love America. R/W/U decks...
Superllama12
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Why aren't the mana symbols in WUBRG order?
Feralsymphony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If they don't reprint it in the M:tG Commander set coming up...
Nagoragama
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
The Time Spiral version is one of the most elegant cards ever printed.
kidpokerpro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Amazing card. When I found out about this card, I immediately built a deck around her and her sister the Stoic Angel. Wowzer, she's a game changer boys and girls, if you run an agro-deck you can have this pretty lady out on turn 3! (it usually happens in my deck) couple that with stoic angel and a few other creatures with vigilance and your opponent can't defend themselves fast enough. And no need for wasting space with control because they come out so fast! 5/5 without a doubt.
If you doubt this card's power, try searching the gatherer for creatures with Flying and Haste. A 3/4 with Vigilance on top at the mana cost of is almost too good to be true. Incredible to say the least, my favorite card of all time.
@Alesbra: It appears that you've forgotten what card advantage is, young dragon. Having to use two cards to mimic the solidarity of a Lightning Angel, while simultaneously having a gimpy toughness of 2 (not only in range of Lightning Bolt but also in range of Shock) means your little ploy doesn't even get "clever points." The Cheese Stands Alone on this one; and by cheese, I mean Lightning Angel.
Bummer we didn't see a reprint in the Commander deck - that one was a little under-powered, but I guess they wanted to save all the Angels for the Heavenly Inferno to maintain thematic integrity.
igniteice
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Powereslave The artwork is anything but ugly. RK Post's artwork is some of the best. He's right up there with Raymond Swanland.
GracefulInferno
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
In lieu of all those keywords, we should just give her errata.
"Lightning Angel enters the battlefield untapped and attacking."
OmegaSerris
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
So much wasted space, this just begs for flavor text. :-( I think it is the border that makes this card look ugly. In a newer border (Hint, Hint, Wizards...) I think this art would look just fine. I never liked that vomit-looking gold texture.
For those whom disagree with her color-to-ability ratio, it's very simple. Flying Vigilance Haste
Sure flying is pretty popular in , especially on Angels but really, it lines up so well like this. Plus, Vigilance (before it was keyworded) was more of a ability back in the day, so all three of these work very well for this color combination.
Stray_Dog
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Reprint for blazes! I want one for my "wing commander" deck.
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Though I'd love to spill my American Pride all over a Gatherer page, they haven't yet made a card that represents us. This is just an angel with good abilities. It doesn't symbolize our country because of its mana cost. It's all right though, since the entire game is an American concoction. Every card in it is an American card. And pretty much every country in the world plays some Magic. That's a win right there.
Kalam19
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wonder when this will get reprinted again. Seems like it would be a reasonable reprint
Hunted0Lesser
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The colours... they're so... beautiful.
Seriously though, there are only four cards with this colour combination (see 1.) and this is the first and the only non-legendary.
A white, blue, and red angel? Norway! Norway! Norway!
Seriously though, lots of countries' flag uses the colour scheme red, white and blue. Getting all patriotic because this card matches your country's flag in particular is kinda silly...
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"AMERICAAAAAAAA!" I love how the first way they put red/white/blue on a card it was an angel made for combat.
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It deserves a reprint with the new card frame and art that isn't so...ugly.
4.5/5
The art is, in my opinion, quite good, except there's too much red on the outfit - red hair would be enough.
Off-colour angels are just so much more interesting. This girl especially.
@Alesbra: It appears that you've forgotten what card advantage is, young dragon. Having to use two cards to mimic the solidarity of a Lightning Angel, while simultaneously having a gimpy toughness of 2 (not only in range of Lightning Bolt but also in range of Shock) means your little ploy doesn't even get "clever points." The Cheese Stands Alone on this one; and by cheese, I mean Lightning Angel.
Bummer we didn't see a reprint in the
The artwork is anything but ugly. RK Post's artwork is some of the best. He's right up there with Raymond Swanland.
"Lightning Angel enters the battlefield untapped and attacking."
For those whom disagree with her color-to-ability ratio, it's very simple.
Sure flying is pretty popular in
Seriously though, there are only four cards with this colour combination (see 1.) and this is the first and the only non-legendary.
1. "http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&color=+
Stupid link...
Seriously though, lots of countries' flag uses the colour scheme red, white and blue. Getting all patriotic because this card matches your country's flag in particular is kinda silly...
I love how the first way they put red/white/blue on a card it was an angel made for combat.