Angel of Flight Alabaster
Creature — Angel
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #13538
Angel of Flight Alabaster gives you a free Spirit return to hand every upkeep, which in the right deck is a continuous recursion engine stapled to a 4/4 flying body. The catch is the five-mana cost and the conditional trigger — without a steady Spirit count, it's just a vanilla beater, so it earns its slot almost exclusively in dedicated Spirit builds like Millicent, Restless Revenant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant runs Angel of Flight Alabaster in nearly half of all lists because the two cards form a self-sustaining loop — Millicent generates Spirit tokens, Angel recurs any Spirit that died, and the board refills every turn cycle.
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers cares about Spirits entering and leaving the battlefield, so Angel of Flight Alabaster's upkeep recursion translates directly into repeated triggers and incremental value off a commander that wants constant Spirit traffic.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Angel of Flight Alabaster earns consistent play, and even there it's narrowly slotted into Spirit tribal decks where its upkeep trigger fires reliably. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally invisible — five mana for a conditional card-advantage piece doesn't compete in those environments. Modern has more midrange shells that could theoretically support it, but Spirit synergy builds there lean on cheaper, more explosive payoffs and leave Angel of Flight Alabaster on the shelf. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth noting if your commander is a Spirit or generates them, since the 60-card singleton pressure makes recurring payoffs more meaningful.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Angel of Flight Alabaster is deep bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut without regret. The price reflects its narrow application: outside Spirit tribal Commander builds, demand simply isn't there to push it higher.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.