Pointed Discussion

Inverse Voice of the Provinces, now with increased flying!

6 mana? It's expensive, but it seems like the perfect card to play the turn after you play Conjurer's Closet.

Yup. Cloudshift and the like. Better than it looks.

Still too expensive for what it can do, but the angel in the background is gorgeous.

This will fit very well into a Selesnya deck, with Populate and all that good stuff...

CAPTAIN PLANET
HE'S A HERO

That makeup reminds me of Empire of the Sun.
"We are the people"?

The card is like a boring and underpowered Splicer

Is this supposed to be a fixed geist of saint traft ?

Entreating the Angels bounce by bounce.

Things to note about this card:

1. You get two creatures.
2. Bounce tricks.
3. Creature/Token copy tricks.

Yup, Lavaz is trying to take over the world through the Gateless.

Don't forget Populate. Selesnya can have fun with this card, too.

ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST AND HIS LOYAL WARD.

2.5/5. That guy looks like he's been huffing the incense and the angel is coming to the party.

This with Conjurer's Closet/Populate. >_<

I guess someone has to explicitly mention Restoration Angel, but no, this punk probably won't see the light of a constructed sideboard.

Good for populate, but pretty crappy for anything else (outside limited).

It's not great, obviously, but it's clearly usable with flicker effects and populate.

I smell sweet tricks with Angel of Glory's Rise (figuratively of course).

In limited use this in an Orzhov deck with Midnight Recovery. The angel makes a great cipher target as well!

Is he holding a dawn charm?

Better than he looks, but that still isn't very good.

3.5/5

I'm honestly surprised that this card isn't rated higher than it is right now; these Angel tokens aren't easy to come by in Magic. A mere 10 cards can produce a 4/4 Angel, and only 8 of those cards allow the Angel to stay on the battlefield for longer than one turn.

If you're playing casually like most of us are, many of these cards are out of your reach due to price or general accessibility. A card like Urbis Protector is a simple way to get your token with no strings attached, and for a fairly reasonable mana cost, too. This card even stands up decently to widely-used cards like Serra Angel, assuming you're going to flicker or populate your way into more tokens.

Personally, I love the flavour of this card more than anything else. The fact that Boros angels are now abandoning Aurelia tells us a lot about the nature of angels in general. Angels are loyal to causes and ideals, not so much to individuals. If a leader like Aurelia is no longer representing the virtues that her angels live to embody, they simply won't follow her any longer. Clearly the Gateless Movement has some moral appeal behind it.

I just wish the writers had focused more on the Gateless Movement at the end of the RTR block.