That's big. That's really big. That's really REALLY BIG! OH CRAP! Now all she wants is trample.
.Blaze.
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
The more of these there are the stupider this becomes. Yea, this is going to be the set's money card.
Arachibutyrophobia
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
this is just...sublime
God_Of_The_Smurfs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Guys, come on. This is not as good of a card as everyone says it is. While it is powerful, it encourages you to have a ton of creatures, and then to not do anything with them except sit dormant while one creature attacks. While it looks great on paper, I'm not sure this card is going to amount to anything on the battlefield.
As sweet as this thing is, I think we're used to seeing overpowered mythic white cards in core sets for a while now, between this, Baneslayer Angel, and Angelic Destiny, but I think this will have competition for awesomeness with Thundermaw Hellkite.
Totema
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
Excuse me, that sound you just heard was my jaw hitting the floor.
sarroth
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I love this card. But I don't understand why it needed to be 4 CMC instead of 5 or even 6. I'd still consider it Mythic, since that's a potentially huge bonus to one creature, and because exalted stacks. I still want it in my deck, but I'm not going to argue with anyone who thinks it's overpowered, because it is.
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
When I heard the name, I thought my dreams came true that there was finally and ooze angel creature made. However I had misheard =(
someday
mikeymillz
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Combos with creatures.
LordOfTheFlies87
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
A bit too powerful for my tastes.
UncreativeNameMaker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This will be good in any deck with plenty of creatures. It will be insane if you have other sources of Exalted and a Tormented Soul or Invisible Stalker ready to swing the turn it comes out.
Cyberium
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't enjoy the power level of this card, but cannot deny the power appeal.
A broken card. a 4CMC, 4/3 flyer is good on its own... not mentioning the exalt stacking. Some kid pulled one of these during the prerelease and won within a couple turns if it wasn't immediately answered.
You don't need 10 creatures out for this to be effective. After 2+ other creatures, it starts to get nuts.
Then you toss in faith's shield to keep your guys from getting removed.
As for this card Cardin particular....she doesn't need lifelink because you won't be attacking with her most of the time. On turn four, you play her and your other creature gets to attack with all the exalted procs. And slayers sanctuary gives that creature lifelink for you.
I wish two things were different however... If only it had a toughness of 4 and if it was about $8 instead of $19... I wouldn't run four in a deck personally, two or three will suffice.
InternetNinjacy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@God_Of_The_Smurfs
Utility creatures, bro.
My Birds of Paradise aren't attacking anytime soon. Neither are any of the Mana Myrs I used to get her out. The soldiers that I got from Conqueror's Pledge? Don't care about them too much now, I was just gonna use them for Knight-Captain of Eos anyway.
ravekiller
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Got to play her in the pre release and wow she is great. Just great going run 4 in my white black token deck
ExzcellionGamma
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, all of her OP power was seen by all.
But after looking at the art then I am in love in her beauty.
Excellent art.
Dreznin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pulled on in the prerelease and ran it to victory in a black/white exalted deck (both knights, servant, Benediction, tormented souls for unblockable attackers). Anyone that thinks this card is overrated hasn't seen how nuts things get when she hits the field. One unblockable creature on your side and she turns into a game changer if your opponent doesn't have some form of removal readily available to take her out. Didn't care that they were $20 prepurchased, I rounded out my playset that night via preorders, I honestly found her to be meaner than baneslayer. If you want to get sick, just run both (can't in Standard, but extended it will be sick).
They should just start printing Andrew Jackson's face on these cards. Not horribly broken (adding first strike or life link would have tilted that scale) but definitely above the power curve.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the best replacements for Hero of Bladehold when it cycles out. You don't get the tokens, but you do get a cumulative Battle Cry. 5/5
LordBubbles
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(5 votes)
I would trade my nonexistent child for this card.
Diab0l0
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is sick and won me a box at the prerelease yesterday. Sure, my opponent used Safe Passage once when my 12/12 trample Sentinel Spider equiped with a Ring of Kalonia attacked, but you still have all your blockers after your attack and I followed with Fungal Sprouting to add 12 more exalted 1/1 on the board.
The strength of the card is as soon as it hits the field, another of your creature will benefit from Exalted for an attack. It needs to be countered or dealth with by instant removal as soon as it enteres the battlefield (unless it's alone, then you get a turn to deal with it).
This will be extremly strong in token decks and I wonder if it might even make Fungal Sprouting playable along with it in more competitive decks. It can give you 4 token with the angel already, but potentially a lot more if you wait to attack first and cast it in your second main phase. Lingering Souls and Increasing Devotion both sounds gerat too in a deck like this!
Other alternative to Silverblade Paladin could also be the new Ajani, Caller of the Pride (flying!) or Inquisitor's Flail (not that bad since you can switch the flail to other creatures). Playing multiple Archangel on the field works too since Exalted instance stack on permanents (that might be overextending though)!
I haven't even explored the possibilities with Lifelink yet here, but suddenly, Sorin, Lord of Innistrad's lifelink vampire tokens sound somewhat more appealing!
CapnShapiro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Beautiful, best art in the set.
Auto-replacing Hero of Bladehold after rotation.
Also, @ God_of_the_Smurfs, even by herself she's an evasive 5/4 creature for 2WW; she even eats the Standard staple Restoration Angel. Your other creatures aren't just sitting there, either; your exalted helpers are blockers. You're still hitting them just as hard while maintaining a wall to stuff their attackers. If you have an evasive creature already out when you cast her, she basically says "Target creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creatures you control." I've heard hitting your opponent for lethal is pretty good.
dave78pdx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Got this beauty at the prerelease this weekend. Played WB, combining her with two Vampire Nighthawks, along with every other Exalted card I had. NIghthawk Exalted gave my opponents fits, but once this pretty lady hit the board it was GG.
Yeah... She also gives herself exalted. It could have just been printed that "all your creatures have exalted" but it looks like they separated them for laughs just so you have to digest how broken she is. Wait what? And exalted stacks? In the inistrad block which is popular for token mass-producing cards, this is just retarded -_-
When I look back on some of the older broken cards, and hear that they're making a new set, I think "well hey, they're probably learning by their mistakes as they go and won't do anything too stupid." But then they printed ghoul tree (a 10/10 for 8 that downcosts per creature in your grave yard, even though simply a 10/10 for 8 would have been great already) and now they print this which is so much more outrageous.
And as well, from what I've seen in m13, it looked a lot like they were trying their best to slow down standard, with a new counter spell in blue that costs 4 as opposed to 2 or 3, and a field wipe in white that costs 6 as opposed to 4. So why in the world would they make this? It undid their efforts of "slowing down" anything and it's just going to be game breaking! Every single standard deck that runs white is going to have 4 of these.
Blind_At_Heart
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I Like Black So I Have To Tell Everyone What Everyone Already Knows Doomblade Go For The Throat Murder Mutliate
Thank You Wizards.
chaitel
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
look at similar previous cards like junkyo bell, these cards don't have a huge effect on constructed formats. junkyo bell at least allowed you to attack with all of your creatures as well. she forces you to attack with only one creature, leaving you wide open for removal. much rather play an intangible virtue and attack with my lingering souls tokens. her saving grace is that she is a very aggressively costed, evasive creature.
imsully2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wonder if this will surpass Ajani, Caller of the Pride in value, I think so since if you're running white your big stuff will often be an angel and therefore already have flying and alot of white decks, especially exalted ones'll be using silverblade paladins so your stuff will already have double strike, his plus one is nice but not worth close to 30$ and in general I just ignore ultimate abilities since if you can pull one off you should've probably already won
DaniL
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@God_Of_The_Smurfs
You're acting as if creatures who don't attack have to sit dormant all game. Fill that deck with creatures with activated abilities, or even static ones. You end up having a wall of creatures that, when you're fighting another creature heavy deck, is ALWAYS open to block. You're protected, and if you, say, build around an invisible stalker or a tormented soul as the creature to head off your exalted attack, you've got yourself a lot of guaranteed damage.
ninjaboy05
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ZaisConsultant. That 4 mana counterspell is technically a free one and it is quite dangerous in the right hands. Also B/W Exalted here I come.
Averyck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
She's...so...pretty...
Also, the card is nice too. I like creatures that play well with others.
robinjohnson
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Infinite reflection just got broken...
tomatopotato
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
"If a creature has multiple instances of exalted, each triggers separately."
I think Exalted is interesting, but potential occurrences of Exalted 2 or Exalted 3 seem a little wonky thematically. I mean, me saying nice things to my girlfriend multiple times doesn't turn her from a 1/1 to a 4/4. No, that isn't a reference to cup size >.<;
DeliciousFish
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Killing one of these with a $0.05 Searing Spear is going to feel SO good
VirusVescichetta
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
The only thing about her that makes me sad is the lack of flavour text.
Nikeyeia
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Last time I heard, swinging for 12 in sealed on turn 5 without Rancor or any boost spell is pretty good.
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Creatures with exalted you control have exalted, exalted, exalted, exalted, and exalted.
Exalted.
Mickacabra
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
This card is designed brilliantly. I have always loved the exalted mechanic and thought it was well balanced. I love how, if you control four of these and attack with one, you're looking at 20 in the air. So cool.
Magical Christmas Land aside, this card is nuts. Expect it to hit $25.
Eluem
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
So what happened to rarity being purely about complexity.. not about printing broken cards so they can profit?
Magnor_Criol
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
@Eluem: Rarity has never been about complexity. The rarity schedule is a pretty deep blend of considerations including power level of the card, frequency they want it appearing in Limited, board and game impact, iconic feel, as well as complexity and I'm sure other points I'm unaware of. (I think "money potential" is far less of a concern than most people think to R&D, though I'm also sure it's not ignored.)
OmnipotentOne
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Cool card with tokens, but it sucks only being able to attack with one creature when you have so many out.
blindthrall
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
This is just rude. Also, surprised at the lack of "yo, dawg" comments.
Hancocky
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Why this card have to appeared?! This is so freaking overpowered :-/ I hate this, also the art seems so... well, nothing special, especially for a mythic
Eddie_Antilles
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A definite four-of in any creature heavy deck with a reasonable white presence.
Just surprised that no one's mentioned Blighted Agent with this yet- insane power up on an unblockable infecter. And it's still Standard legal ATM.
5/5
Axelle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yo dawg, I heard you like exalted, so we put an exalted in your exalted so you can attack while you attack.
Worst card ever printed in the history of Magic: the Gathering.
Silence9
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Insane art insane Angel. 4.5/5.
Orangey!!!
heavyterror
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
A lot of negativity over this. You know what kills exalted? Really simple stuff like bounce and creature tap engines. SLEEP.
TheFarran
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Seems strange they didn't just print it as "Creatures you control have Exalted" like Goblin Warchief. Just seems tidier
K0rbl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How is this not a 5 *? A 4/3 Self Exalted Creature with flying (evasion) for only 2WW...not only that, it gives EVERY other creature exalted; as well potential STACKS exalted with other exalted creatures. Annnnnnd this: Sublime Archangel turn 4, Phantasmal Image/Clone into Sublime Archangel turn 5 with 2-4 Human/Spirit tokens on the board. I cast Artful Dodge from either my hand or graveyard for an Island. No counter, peace out.
Creature Scale with 2 SA, (1-4 being creatures w/out being self exalted): 1: 10 2: 12 3: 14 4: 16
Dragasm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I wish this and thundermaw hellkite weren't so pricey haha. That said, this card is just insane. Also, it needs flavor text, preferably flavor text explaining why giant black demons and vampire rogues have exalted all of the sudden.
rollinsclone
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
I'd like it better if it wasn't, you know, $25.
badboy453
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card is an awsome turn 4 win........turn 1 ......manna dork... turn 2 silver blade paladin.......turn 3 sublime archangel .......atack for 10 double strike with silver blade.....turn 4 sublime archangel in the air for 14 .....(if you dont have any other creatures) ...could be more.....run some apostal blessings and some cloud shifts and then your golden.
Plaid_Mage
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
SEPERATE INSTANCES COUNT INDIVIDUALLY!? Clone that sucker and call it a day!
TheJord01
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Not bad, but terribly overrated
ratrase
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A exalted creature that is great in a deck that have no other exalted creatures? o_O
Lyriq
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Daenerys? Is that you?
Lotsofpoopy
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Another unbelievably powerful angel in a core set. I think we will be seeing a lot of this card for a while.
pzbw7z
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a beautiful card! The art is quite nice too.
This was the main reason I was able to win a booster draft tonight.
runebloodshard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've used Sublime Archangel in my angels/goblins deck, in conjunction with Krenko, Mob Boss and Akroma's Memorial. There's something to be said about having 50+ Goblins on the board, all with flying, first strike, vigilance, haste, trample and protection from red and black. Combine that with all my creatures being exalted, attack with one goblin = at least +50/+50. My death by ant bite, goblins attack has become a one strike devastating attack.
myztikrice
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@TheFarran
Mark Rosewater addressed this on his tumblr blog, saying that basically newer players get more confused with 'All creatures you control have X' as opposed to 'X, all other creatures you control have X'. I also surmise that since this is in a core set it was also done so they could fit in both reminder texts about Exalted and what giving Exalted to other creatures does.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@blindthrall "Yo Gawd, I heard you like to be Exalted so we Exalted our Exalting so you can be Exalted while you're Exalted." St. Peter, Sublime Archangel
(the Sublime Archangel in this art happens to be female, but I'm sure some Sublime Archangels are male.)
yo dawg we heard you liked exalted so we got you some exalted to make your other creature exalted so when your creature attacks your exalted creature gets exalted and exalted, plus exalted from your other creature
But seriously folks, to make Sublime Archangel work optimally, you need a board position with several creatures, plus one creature that can go the distance (i.e. evasion, double strike, infect, and/or Inquisitor's Flail). Invisible Stalker and Fencing Ace are two low-cost options.
Alternately, you can use Sublime Archangel with walls so that you can go on the offense while maintaining a strong defense. You don't have to use actual walls; Lingering Souls will work fine.
Unfortunately, you may still have to be wary of board-wipe (even ones as weak as Electrickery), since the Archangel isn't going to help your other dudes survive. If you have a strong enough board position to make full use of the Archangel, it seems safer to use Collective Blessing as a win method (assuming you can generate ).
Of course, it's ultimately a 4-drop that attacks for 5 in the air alone or for 4 in the air as part of a group. That's far from bad. The question is: in what white deck is it the best card you can play for 4 mana? Only time and relentless testing will tell.
Or if they print an hexproof, double striking Aegis Angel. That would do it.
MightySqueeth
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Strictly worse than a lemon. Ya know... because it's sub lime... HIGH FIVE!!!
Anyone?..
No?
Barjin-N-Blastum
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Oooooooh. I get it. If I have this and 20 chump tokens, and I attack with ONE chump token, he goes over with +21/+21. Because THIS gives them each exalted and she also has it. Must be time to take this OUT of my trade pile.
This is why they make instant speed removal. This is also why they make creatures hexproof.
BowbeforeZod
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Oh why wizards, why can't we get an angel lord for standard? Is it too much to ask? If we had an angel lord that would give hex proof to all angels, then this angel lover right here would be most pleased. Then I would Sublime Archangel my opponent with glee! Knowing that he will have a much harder time in defeating me.....muhahaha but other than her weakness to removal, I would say she is one of my favorite angels.
Of course, like many bombs, it dies to removal - plus it's awesome power from giving everything exalted has the drawback of turning future removal into pseudo-fogs (by killing a creature after its declared as an attacker). Having said that, if left unchecked, this card is obviously an absolute powerhouse. Being a 4 mana card, its not uncommon for it to land after 2 other creatures are already on the board. That's already +3/+3 for one of the other two creatures. Next turn, in that situation without any new creatures she'd swing for 7 evasive damage. The thing is, even on her own she's above the curve - swinging for 5+ evasive the turn after she comes out.
I've put her into a GW Soul Foundry deck to take advantage of the theoretical heaps of creatures, and truth be told she's probably won the majority of the games out of all my win cons. Given that I run Fauna Shaman and Noble Hierarch/GSZ + Dryad Arbor, it's not uncommon for me to land her on turn 3, then play a second copy on turn 4 and swing for lethal across turn 4 and 5. As I said above - this card is just another reminder of how darn important removal is in the majority of decks.
SquiddyFish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
How to turn any white deck into an exalted deck with one card =D
Seth346
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
So first they give baneslayer angel with just double white... THEN they give this thing to white!!! To be pared with something like silverblade paladin.... COME ON WIZARDS!!!! They do this to annoy the good players... I gaurentee it.
Lord_Ascapelion
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
My girlfriend pulled one of these in a pack, so she stuck it into her R/U/G/W soulbond deck for the heck of it. This deck also included Infinite Reflection to use on Wolfir Silverheart. So she managed to get both cards in her hand that game and well... let's just say she won that multiplayer game.
Continue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Remember when 4 mana would get you a 3/3 flyer? Yeah, so do I. Apparently that's not good enough anymore. A 4/3 flyer for that cost is already pretty good, and giving her exalted makes her very competitively playable.
But this... this is just too much...
hot4boys
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
THE LE REDDIT MEME ARMY LEEJUN LOVES THIS CARD! 5 STARS IF YOU AGREE LOL XD!
theRenamer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have two of these. Yeah, my friends hate me.
patronofthesound
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Comparing junkyo bell to this is like comparing your grandma to megan fox.
Cmon, name should be hint enough. One is sublime... The other, well, junk.
This card is too good. It is both extremely offensive and stalwartly defensive. You probably underestimate the power of letting all your creatures hang back except one. Best part, it has a strong impact as soon as it hits, so even if it dies on your opponents next, youve reaped a healthy benefit in two combats, before it ever even attacks. This is one of those cards that has to die, immediately, or you die. That is its power. Bask.
This card brings the scale up to 6, for all cards forever, that's how good it is. And even then, it's probably a 7.
MauGibrin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yes, it's a very strong card, worthy of its Mythic Rare status. Only problem I have with this card is that it gives "Double Exalted" to creatures that already have Exalted. And that is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s. I know Wizards decided to do it so this card could be useful in decks where all (or most of the) creatures already have Exalted, but it feels like granting "Double Flying" to a crature and saying that it can't be blocked with creatures with "normal" flying...
At the very least, this could be a Legendary creature, no?
GlintKawk42
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
EXTREMELY overpowered. however, doesn't mean I won't be running it in my Esper Exalted deck.... 5/5
Spockawitz92Y
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Just another super powered core set angel, nothing new here! But I will say I liked the return of exalted in M13 even if this was the only card that made it possible. 5/5
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That's an excessive amount of power on a single card. Interesting idea, but absurdly poorly designed and a prime bit of evidence for WotC's abuse of the "Mythic" rarity.
Imagine if only that rarity hadn't been made.
Wormfang
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
it's fine, she gets eaten by apocalypse hydra just look at the art.
talcumpowder0046
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Creatures are boring.
ojchahine6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh so she's beautiful and has amazing abilities? Sounds like my art history professor whom I have a huge crush on!
I really, really don't get the "stop complaining, there's a way to beat it" comments. There's a way to beat EVERYTHING, it doesn't detract from the unbalanced cards. Imagine this in a token soldier deck with cards like Raise the Alarm, or spirits and humans. Anything really, that produces creatures really fast. It's insane. Giving all your creatures exalted should be an enchantment that costs 5-6 mana, not sitting on a creature that's already incredibly efficient for its cost.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Epic nonbo with battalion. I like the art and the idea of the effect, but it is undercosted. They could have at least made the creature less efficient (like a 2/3 flying for instance).
However, even with that said, the effect isn't even that powerful. Exalted is okay, but not amazing, and if you have enough creatures to make this truly threatening, then you are probably overextended and asking for a board wipe.
Then again, the turn you play it, you could just end up killing them with your storm crow from all that exalted damage.
TheMurderousKitten
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I find it amusing how so many people here downplay the exalted ability because spot removal can shut it down. First of all, that assumes your opponent has spot removal in hand, with enough mana to play it, every single turn. It might happen once or even a couple of times, but removing one creature still leaves whatever other ones you've managed to get on the board, all of which are untapped, ready to block and help out with the exaltation next round. You might as well argue that all creatures suck because your opponent can play Fog. All it does is delay the pain.
Second, there are plenty of ways to counter spot removal. Counterspells, for instance. Or you could just throw down Mom and let her protect whichever creature is attacking this turn. Will it always work? Of course not. But that doesn't mean this card is any less awesome.
theMaGaRicH
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Unbelievable...
atemu1234
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Should have costed at least one more, or have been legendary.
the_nonaffiliated
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
exalted sliver really fun in sliver decks guys, like, don't knock it
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
"Seems strange they didn't just print it as "Creatures you control have Exalted" like Goblin Warchief. Just seems tidier." --TheFarran
It looks tidier indeed. But it does make a difference as long as this card is on a zone other than the battlefield. If there were a card that would allow you to search your library for creature with exalted, you could search for Sublime Archangel. Yet if there were a card that gets you a creature with haste, you couldn't choose Goblin Warchief.
I'll end this late comment by jumping on the bandwagon of players that dislike the fact that this is yet another Mythic with an unnecessarily high power level. Yet, as with Baneslayer, I'd have been okay with it if just it would require more colored mana. wouldn't have made it weaker, but harder to splash. You simply shouldn't get this for .
K34
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see why this is ranked as mythic.
FarisV
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@K34 Here's why she's Mythic: Sublime Archangel - 4 drop requiring only a double splash of white, non-legendary, 4/3 creature with evasion that gives any creature attacking alone +1/+1 for each creature you control with exalted, and she gives each creature exalted. Let's break this down. As many have already said, a 4/3 flier for 4cmc is already - at the very least - playable, and the fact that she gives all creatures exalted PLUS she's not legendary is almost over the top. Consider her in a good token deck, perhaps even an EDH with Rafiq of the Many and a Luminarch Ascension and you are talking some serious power. With all of white's defensive power, building a deck around her and keeping her alive - assuming she resolves - long enough to be effective shouldn't be terribly hard. Say you do have Rafiq for EDH, which enables you to play blue meaning counters and removal at your disposal and you have her. She's also a viable option for cards like Stolen Identity or the expensive and ever-loved Rite of Replication, which would just be absolute overkill and win-more if you actually manage to pull that off. Green means you could use Gaea's Cradle so your token army would feed your mana, and every creature you control adds +1/+1 to that double strike from Rafiq when you attack. Crazy, crazy power right there. I'm terrible at laying out specific plays and examples of early game wins, but I've seen a boros soldier tribal deck win with her on turn 5, and it would've been turn 4 if the exalted attacker hadn't been returned to owner's hand. 6 other creatures + Sublime, swing with Sublime = she is base 4/3 with +7/+7 flying. 11 damage with 10 toughness, straight to the face if they have no solution. She can be a big threat that demands an answer, and a good thing about exalted means that if you're making good use of it, you'll still have all your other creatures to block with. So, she's low costed, white splashable, decent even without giving other creatures exalted, and a non-legendary angel, which means angel tribal just got another decent addition, even though she can be good in many decks.
And while I've been writing all this, I've been thinking about how fun that Rafiq deck just might be... time to see what I can throw together and might have to go out and get myself one of these ladies for some new EDH fun times.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is exactly the reason I dont play competitive magic. Well cards like this. Just beyond broken for the sake of the mythic tag, without much thought behind it. She is strong so bust out wallet and run x3-x4, or whatever the netdeck tells you to do. Hur dur.
LOLdrackan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really need this for my exalted deck. SSOOOOO MUCHHHH
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While it looks great on paper, I'm not sure this card is going to amount to anything on the battlefield.
someday
Some kid pulled one of these during the prerelease and won within a couple turns if it wasn't immediately answered.
You don't need 10 creatures out for this to be effective. After 2+ other creatures, it starts to get nuts.
Kruin striker, champion of the parish, mikaeus, the lunarch, knight of glory, ajani, caller of the pride, curse of stalked prey, silverblade paladin, slayer's sanctuary and call to serve... Makes for big, scary creatures coming at your with flying and double strike.
Then you toss in faith's shield to keep your guys from getting removed.
As for this card Cardin particular....she doesn't need lifelink because you won't be attacking with her most of the time. On turn four, you play her and your other creature gets to attack with all the exalted procs. And slayers sanctuary gives that creature lifelink for you.
I wish two things were different however... If only it had a toughness of 4 and if it was about $8 instead of $19... I wouldn't run four in a deck personally, two or three will suffice.
Utility creatures, bro.
My Birds of Paradise aren't attacking anytime soon. Neither are any of the Mana Myrs I used to get her out. The soldiers that I got from Conqueror's Pledge? Don't care about them too much now, I was just gonna use them for Knight-Captain of Eos anyway.
But after looking at the art then I am in love in her beauty.
Excellent art.
3 CMC - Silverblade Paladin
4 CMC - Subline Archangel (bond to the Paladin)
5 CMC - Increasing Devotion
?????
PROFIT!
Sure, my opponent used Safe Passage once when my 12/12 trample Sentinel Spider equiped with a Ring of Kalonia attacked, but you still have all your blockers after your attack and I followed with Fungal Sprouting to add 12 more exalted 1/1 on the board.
The strength of the card is as soon as it hits the field, another of your creature will benefit from Exalted for an attack. It needs to be countered or dealth with by instant removal as soon as it enteres the battlefield (unless it's alone, then you get a turn to deal with it).
This will be extremly strong in token decks and I wonder if it might even make Fungal Sprouting playable along with it in more competitive decks. It can give you 4 token with the angel already, but potentially a lot more if you wait to attack first and cast it in your second main phase. Lingering Souls and Increasing Devotion both sounds gerat too in a deck like this!
Other alternative to Silverblade Paladin could also be the new Ajani, Caller of the Pride (flying!) or Inquisitor's Flail (not that bad since you can switch the flail to other creatures). Playing multiple Archangel on the field works too since Exalted instance stack on permanents (that might be overextending though)!
I haven't even explored the possibilities with Lifelink yet here, but suddenly, Sorin, Lord of Innistrad's lifelink vampire tokens sound somewhat more appealing!
Auto-replacing Hero of Bladehold after rotation.
Also, @ God_of_the_Smurfs, even by herself she's an evasive 5/4 creature for 2WW; she even eats the Standard staple Restoration Angel. Your other creatures aren't just sitting there, either; your exalted helpers are blockers. You're still hitting them just as hard while maintaining a wall to stuff their attackers. If you have an evasive creature already out when you cast her, she basically says "Target creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creatures you control." I've heard hitting your opponent for lethal is pretty good.
Wait what? And exalted stacks?
In the inistrad block which is popular for token mass-producing cards, this is just retarded -_-
When I look back on some of the older broken cards, and hear that they're making a new set, I think "well hey, they're probably learning by their mistakes as they go and won't do anything too stupid." But then they printed ghoul tree (a 10/10 for 8 that downcosts per creature in your grave yard, even though simply a 10/10 for 8 would have been great already) and now they print this which is so much more outrageous.
And as well, from what I've seen in m13, it looked a lot like they were trying their best to slow down standard, with a new counter spell in blue that costs 4 as opposed to 2 or 3, and a field wipe in white that costs 6 as opposed to 4. So why in the world would they make this? It undid their efforts of "slowing down" anything and it's just going to be game breaking! Every single standard deck that runs white is going to have 4 of these.
Doomblade
Go For The Throat
Murder
Mutliate
Thank You Wizards.
You're acting as if creatures who don't attack have to sit dormant all game. Fill that deck with creatures with activated abilities, or even static ones. You end up having a wall of creatures that, when you're fighting another creature heavy deck, is ALWAYS open to block. You're protected, and if you, say, build around an invisible stalker or a tormented soul as the creature to head off your exalted attack, you've got yourself a lot of guaranteed damage.
Also, the card is nice too. I like creatures that play well with others.
I think Exalted is interesting, but potential occurrences of Exalted 2 or Exalted 3 seem a little wonky thematically. I mean, me saying nice things to my girlfriend multiple times doesn't turn her from a 1/1 to a 4/4. No, that isn't a reference to cup size >.<;
Exalted.
T4: Sublime Archangel
T5: Phantasmal Image, Phantasmal Image, Swing 20
Magical Christmas Land aside, this card is nuts. Expect it to hit $25.
I hate this, also the art seems so... well, nothing special, especially for a mythic
Just surprised that no one's mentioned Blighted Agent with this yet- insane power up on an unblockable infecter. And it's still Standard legal ATM.
5/5
Orangey!!!
Creature Scale with 2 SA, (1-4 being creatures w/out being self exalted):
1: 10
2: 12
3: 14
4: 16
This was the main reason I was able to win a booster draft tonight.
Mark Rosewater addressed this on his tumblr blog, saying that basically newer players get more confused with 'All creatures you control have X' as opposed to 'X, all other creatures you control have X'. I also surmise that since this is in a core set it was also done so they could fit in both reminder texts about Exalted and what giving Exalted to other creatures does.
"Yo Gawd, I heard you like to be Exalted so we Exalted our Exalting so you can be Exalted while you're Exalted." St. Peter, Sublime Archangel
(the Sublime Archangel in this art happens to be female, but I'm sure some Sublime Archangels are male.)
so we got you some exalted to make your other creature exalted
so when your creature attacks your exalted creature gets exalted and exalted, plus exalted from your other creature
(as per blindthrall's request)
T1: Forest, Avacyn's Pilgrim
T2: Plains, Silverblade Paladin unpaired
T3: Plains, Sublime Archangel paired with Silverblade Paladin, attack for 10 on the ground if I think I can get away with it
T4: Forest, Increasing Devotion/Geist-Honored Monk/Sublime Archangel, attack with Sublime Archangel for 20-24 in the air
But seriously folks, to make Sublime Archangel work optimally, you need a board position with several creatures, plus one creature that can go the distance (i.e. evasion, double strike, infect, and/or Inquisitor's Flail). Invisible Stalker and Fencing Ace are two low-cost options.
Alternately, you can use Sublime Archangel with walls so that you can go on the offense while maintaining a strong defense. You don't have to use actual walls; Lingering Souls will work fine.
Unfortunately, you may still have to be wary of board-wipe (even ones as weak as Electrickery), since the Archangel isn't going to help your other dudes survive. If you have a strong enough board position to make full use of the Archangel, it seems safer to use Collective Blessing as a win method (assuming you can generate
Furthermore, spot-removal tends to utterly devastate Exalted strategies. While Invisible Stalker, Geist of Saint Traft, and Sigarda, Host of Herons don't have a problem as attackers, you still need to protect your Archangel, and there aren't currently many good ways to do that (Elgaud Shieldmate, Ring of Evos Isle, and Mask of Avacyn).
Of course, it's ultimately a 4-drop that attacks for 5 in the air alone or for 4 in the air as part of a group. That's far from bad. The question is: in what white deck is it the best card you can play for 4 mana? Only time and relentless testing will tell.
Or if they print an hexproof, double striking Aegis Angel. That would do it.
Anyone?..
No?
If we had an angel lord that would give hex proof to all angels, then this angel lover right here would be most pleased. Then I would Sublime Archangel my opponent with glee! Knowing that he will have a much harder time in defeating me.....muhahaha
but other than her weakness to removal, I would say she is one of my favorite angels.
I've put her into a GW Soul Foundry deck to take advantage of the theoretical heaps of creatures, and truth be told she's probably won the majority of the games out of all my win cons. Given that I run Fauna Shaman and Noble Hierarch/GSZ + Dryad Arbor, it's not uncommon for me to land her on turn 3, then play a second copy on turn 4 and swing for lethal across turn 4 and 5. As I said above - this card is just another reminder of how darn important removal is in the majority of decks.
But this... this is just too much...
Cmon, name should be hint enough. One is sublime... The other, well, junk.
This card is too good. It is both extremely offensive and stalwartly defensive. You probably underestimate the power of letting all your creatures hang back except one. Best part, it has a strong impact as soon as it hits, so even if it dies on your opponents next, youve reaped a healthy benefit in two combats, before it ever even attacks. This is one of those cards that has to die, immediately, or you die. That is its power. Bask.
This card brings the scale up to 6, for all cards forever, that's how good it is. And even then, it's probably a 7.
At the very least, this could be a Legendary creature, no?
Imagine if only that rarity hadn't been made.
Guess I'm making a White/Blue exalted deck now.
However, even with that said, the effect isn't even that powerful. Exalted is okay, but not amazing, and if you have enough creatures to make this truly threatening, then you are probably overextended and asking for a board wipe.
Then again, the turn you play it, you could just end up killing them with your storm crow from all that exalted damage.
Second, there are plenty of ways to counter spot removal. Counterspells, for instance. Or you could just throw down Mom and let her protect whichever creature is attacking this turn. Will it always work? Of course not. But that doesn't mean this card is any less awesome.
really fun in sliver decks guys, like, don't knock it
It looks tidier indeed.
But it does make a difference as long as this card is on a zone other than the battlefield.
If there were a card that would allow you to search your library for creature with exalted,
you could search for Sublime Archangel.
Yet if there were a card that gets you a creature with haste, you couldn't choose Goblin Warchief.
I'll end this late comment by jumping on the bandwagon of players that dislike the fact that this is yet another Mythic with an unnecessarily high power level.
Yet, as with Baneslayer, I'd have been okay with it if just it would require more colored mana.
Sublime Archangel - 4 drop requiring only a double splash of white, non-legendary, 4/3 creature with evasion that gives any creature attacking alone +1/+1 for each creature you control with exalted, and she gives each creature exalted.
Let's break this down.
As many have already said, a 4/3 flier for 4cmc is already - at the very least - playable, and the fact that she gives all creatures exalted PLUS she's not legendary is almost over the top. Consider her in a good token deck, perhaps even an EDH with Rafiq of the Many and a Luminarch Ascension and you are talking some serious power. With all of white's defensive power, building a deck around her and keeping her alive - assuming she resolves - long enough to be effective shouldn't be terribly hard.
Say you do have Rafiq for EDH, which enables you to play blue meaning counters and removal at your disposal and you have her. She's also a viable option for cards like Stolen Identity or the expensive and ever-loved Rite of Replication, which would just be absolute overkill and win-more if you actually manage to pull that off. Green means you could use Gaea's Cradle so your token army would feed your mana, and every creature you control adds +1/+1 to that double strike from Rafiq when you attack. Crazy, crazy power right there.
I'm terrible at laying out specific plays and examples of early game wins, but I've seen a boros soldier tribal deck win with her on turn 5, and it would've been turn 4 if the exalted attacker hadn't been returned to owner's hand.
6 other creatures + Sublime, swing with Sublime = she is base 4/3 with +7/+7 flying. 11 damage with 10 toughness, straight to the face if they have no solution. She can be a big threat that demands an answer, and a good thing about exalted means that if you're making good use of it, you'll still have all your other creatures to block with.
So, she's low costed, white splashable, decent even without giving other creatures exalted, and a non-legendary angel, which means angel tribal just got another decent addition, even though she can be good in many decks.
And while I've been writing all this, I've been thinking about how fun that Rafiq deck just might be... time to see what I can throw together and might have to go out and get myself one of these ladies for some new EDH fun times.