Part of me wants to use this to protect the phylactery of a Phylactery Lich. Not very efficient, given how color-intensive PL is, but the idea makes me giggle.
I passed this up to order an Archon of Justice...I'm comfortable with my choice.
Scytzo
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Kallia of the Vast has a new friend. Not very efficient unless cheated in, though.
majinara
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(7 votes)
It's nice and balanced card. Not too powerful, and I wouldn't currently know any deck of mine I'd add it to, but it's still an ok card. 3/5
MrBarrelRoll
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(14 votes)
How has no one mentioned Spellskite? This gal protects Spellskite from being destroyed, while Spellskite protects her by making any removal that doesn't say "exile" fizzle.
Also, non-standard combos! Play Dual Nature then this, resolving Dual Nature's trigger first. Make the token protect the original, and the original protect the token. Enjoy having 2 indestructible 5/5 filers.
Also, Followed Footsteps. Each new Angel comes into play protecting the Angel that came into play the turn before. Angels protecting Angels? ANGELCEPTION.
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
If you are wondering about the name, "aegis" is Greek for shield.
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I just don't like it... If you play it for six mana it will be the biggest target on your field... and it's the only one that it can't protect :( Because of that, its ability doesn't seem as useful. The art is so beautiful though.
Dr.Pingas
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Duh. Use her to make That Which Was Taken indestructible. Then give her a Divinity Counter. Yeah.
Laguz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Pretty cool that your opponent has to use two removal spells instead of one...unfortunately, both your guys are still dead and you didn't gain any card advantage. Obviously a bomb in any limited format, but white has access to so many killer 5 drops that there just isn't any real reason to play this.
BuffJittePLZ
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Every time I played this card at the pre-release (sealed), she won me games. With a Stave off to protect her from the first kill spell, I usually had the game in the bag after that.
voyager1
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
I really wish the angel could make itself indestructable. It's likely that it will be the biggest creature you have, and therefore the best candidate for protection.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@mrbarrelroll The duel nature combo doesn't work. Since both abilities go on the stack simultaneously, you have to target a permanent with Aegis Angel's ability before the token is made.
reddaemon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nice card in limited though has its limitations. I played red and Combust worked very well :P. Combust destroys this even if you have Spellskite out too :D
Kitty_the_Kat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think a lot of people are missing the potential environment that this creature will be playing in. Sure there will be Titans to contend with, but this is meant to support your Titans, not swing like a drunken lumberjack. This is meant to be played after you drop one of your Titans to protect it from removal. I would like Making my Sun Titan Indestructible while I revive smaller guys with "enter the battlefield" effects.
Maybe not too competitive right now, but its obvious that there is a slowdown coming, at least for Standard. And in that environment a couple (or even 1) of these could be used to round out the mana curve with a few Titans.
For right now I don't think I can justify giving this a 4/5, but perhaps a 3.5 for having future potential.
Radagast
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like this angel. It is properly costed for its size (5/5 flyer with cool ability for 6) and making something else indestructible has to be useful.
Maybe too costly for Standard, but amazing in Commander since it protects everything from other creatures to combo engines.
Khavrion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What about Glimmerpoint Stag? It says the creature is invincible as long as you control the Aegis Angel: so you can summon her and make a friend indestructible, bounce her out, and get a new one. Since technically you still control the Angel, then you get two indestructible creatures :D
And the correct name for this card was probably Guardian Angel. Too bad they used that name already.
armogohma
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Khavrion
When you flicker Aegis Angel, she returns to paly as a new object with no relation to her previous existence. The target of the old angel permenantly returns to destructability, white the new angel's taregt becomes indestructible.
Oh and Aegis is a great name. Anyone who has felt the power of the Aegis Shield in Final Fantasy should be able to appreciate the nature of this angel's effect.
Studoku
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@MasterOfEtherium- That's either the cleverest thing you've ever said in a comment or one of the dumbest. It's a shame that I just can't consider a world where you say something clever.
Nice card- especially with the aforementioned spellskite combo. Should be fun in EDH too- you can never have too many ways to keep your general around.
HitTheGoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually, I do believe this + Spellskite is protected by Combust, because Spellskite's ability doesn't counter, nor prevent the damage, it just redirects it. Just like you can cast redirect in response to Combust to send it somewhere else.
Edit: Right, nvm, sometimes I forget that Spellskite isn't blue, just its ability is.
Redo19
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Q: Would Turn To Frog cause the creature targeted by this to lose indestructible? Hypothetically speaking. I know you could easily just turn it on Aegis Angel instead if you really wanted to.
necava01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
turn to frog does work against this card, because it deactivates the ability.
tobiecote
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It is a great support card, I've tested it with Darksteel Plate . Can take a serious advantage when comes the Wrath Of God.
A: Indestructible is not an ability. The words " is indestructible," is an ability. Aegis Angel holds the ability, so if you Turn to Frog on her, her target would become vulnerable. I think. I'm sure about the first part, not the second.
Using Turn to Frog on her target will not remove it's indestructibility.
TARDIS79
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
After playtesting with this I can say that this 6 mana is too much for what this card does. It would've been better if it say made all other angel creatures indestructible or gave a +1/+1 to all angels.
sincleanser
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You need to play two of her at the same time.
bramabull100
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If a player temporarily loses control of Aegis Angel does indestructibly return once that player regains control of Aegis Angel?
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@bramabull100 No, then no permanent would be indestructible. That triggers when she enters the battlefield, not when you gain control of her.
I haven't seen an answer for this, but as far as I understand, Turn to Frog would not cause her target to lose it's indestructibility because the ability was already triggered, and you still control her even though she's been transformed into a frog...
I only have one question about this angel, as it has a weird wording that I, at least, have never seen before;
Does her enters the battlefield effect uses the stack or not on activation?
The way its worded sounds like it doesn't, which would be exceptionally fine in cases when I have more than one good target. However, rulings on it don't mention that.
Mike-C
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
So I can play Baneslayer for 5 cmc and get all kinds of extra goodies for 1 less mana or play her a turn later, lose the goodies but make another permanent... LIKE the Baneslayer I played last tuuuur-URN, indestructible?? Oh, ok well that's cool :)
Your enchantment is indestructible and your angel (and all the other dudes you have) has hexproof and regeneration.
Try it. It's fun.
DarthParallax
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Avacyn, Angel of Hope is what we MAGIC fans like to describe as "strictly-- WAIT, WHAT THE?!?!!??!?"
This card is utterly obsolete. @.@
sarroth
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
@Darth Parallax: Because Avacyn, Angel of Hope makes all of your permanents inderstructible, herself included, you think she's strictly better? Phew, I am getting tired of people throwing out the term strictly better. Aegis Angel costs 6, Avacyn costs 8; if you want something in play quicker than Avacyn, Aegis Angel is better. Aegis Angel has {W}{W} in her cost, Avacyn has {W}{W}{W} in her cost, making Aegis Angel easier to play in multicolor decks. Avacyn is legendary, so she dies to the legend rule, including from Clone effects, a decent enough number of which don't even target so giving Avacyn shroud or hexproof wouldn't save her where Aegis Angel wouldn't die from that. The two are better in different situations against different metagames, so saying one is strictly better than the other is strictly wrong.
Both fit into a Kaalia of the Vast Commander deck, because Kaalia is only a 2/2 and she really likes to swing for the fences, so she needs protection against those 2/2 and higher defenders.
swords_to_exile
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo's with That Which Was Taken. Protect it with this, then protect this with it.
Lavrant
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I like when the artist actually draws an angel who looks ready for battle, rather than one who looks ready for a goth rave of a dinner party. (I'm looking at you, Avacyn).
CaptainBlue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Her ability is an "enters the battlefield" type ability. I believe because of this it's a triggered ability that does use the stack. You could compare it to Yeva's Forcemage's ability except instead of having an "until the end of turn" end condition it lasts "for as long as you control Aegis Angel". I don't believe Turn to Frog would remove the indestructibility because it doesn't remove Aegis Angel from one's control; it simply would change her creature type, power/toughness and remove her triggered ability which would've already triggered isn't a constant effect ability like that of Platinum Angel's.
She might seem a little pricey but she's a 5/5 with flying for even if you disreguard her unique ability so altogether she's solid at rare. Also, her art is literally amazing. I just stared at it the first time I saw it.
4.5/5
Equinox523
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't know if this was the intent, but its mechanic of protecting something as long as it's around hearkens back to Guardian Angel, if that card was a creature (and wasn't bad). I wouldn't be disappointed if I pulled this from a pack - great artwork, and a decent creature. Not necessarily game-ending, but an interesting and fairly uncommon design space.
TheVizier
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@NoobofLore: Now that Indestructible is a keyword ability, Turn to Frog and other "remove abilities" cards will make Aegis Angel's target vulnerable.
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Also, non-standard combos! Play Dual Nature then this, resolving Dual Nature's trigger first. Make the token protect the original, and the original protect the token. Enjoy having 2 indestructible 5/5 filers.
Also, Followed Footsteps. Each new Angel comes into play protecting the Angel that came into play the turn before. Angels protecting Angels? ANGELCEPTION.
The duel nature combo doesn't work. Since both abilities go on the stack simultaneously, you have to target a permanent with Aegis Angel's ability before the token is made.
Maybe not too competitive right now, but its obvious that there is a slowdown coming, at least for Standard. And in that environment a couple (or even 1) of these could be used to round out the mana curve with a few Titans.
For right now I don't think I can justify giving this a 4/5, but perhaps a 3.5 for having future potential.
Maybe too costly for Standard, but amazing in Commander since it protects everything from other creatures to combo engines.
And the correct name for this card was probably Guardian Angel. Too bad they used that name already.
When you flicker Aegis Angel, she returns to paly as a new object with no relation to her previous existence. The target of the old angel permenantly returns to destructability, white the new angel's taregt becomes indestructible.
Oh and Aegis is a great name. Anyone who has felt the power of the Aegis Shield in Final Fantasy should be able to appreciate the nature of this angel's effect.
Nice card- especially with the aforementioned spellskite combo. Should be fun in EDH too- you can never have too many ways to keep your general around.
Edit: Right, nvm, sometimes I forget that Spellskite isn't blue, just its ability is.
Aegis Angel holds the ability, so if you Turn to Frog on her, her target would become vulnerable.
I think.
I'm sure about the first part, not the second.
Using Turn to Frog on her target will not remove it's indestructibility.
No, then no permanent would be indestructible. That triggers when she enters the battlefield, not when you gain control of her.
Does her enters the battlefield effect uses the stack or not on activation?
The way its worded sounds like it doesn't, which would be exceptionally fine in cases when I have more than one good target. However, rulings on it don't mention that.
Your enchantment is indestructible and your angel (and all the other dudes you have) has hexproof and regeneration.
Try it. It's fun.
This card is utterly obsolete. @.@
Both fit into a Kaalia of the Vast Commander deck, because Kaalia is only a 2/2 and she really likes to swing for the fences, so she needs protection against those 2/2 and higher defenders.
She might seem a little pricey but she's a 5/5 with flying for
4.5/5
If you like trolling the rest of the table, anyway. Now I'm somewhat tempted to do that, actually...