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Angel of Indemnity

Creature — Angel Warrior

Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Encore {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#3480
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Angel of Indemnity card art
Angel of Indemnity enters, returns a permanent from your graveyard to the battlefield, and then does it again when it dies — two triggers on a 5/4 flying lifelink body for six mana. The cost is real, but commanders like Preston, the Vanisher and Quintorius, History Chaser turn that enter-the-battlefield trigger into a looping engine rather than a one-time bonus.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

63.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Quintorius, History Chaser is the natural home for Angel of Indemnity — every time the Angel enters or dies, Quintorius triggers off the spell being cast from the graveyard, and the Angel's own recursion keeps restocking the yard to do it again.

02
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

43.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine wants a steady stream of Angels to sacrifice for blood tokens, and Angel of Indemnity's dies trigger means each sacrifice recovers a permanent, turning Shilgengar's engine into a self-replacing loop.

03

Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant

36.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant rewards casting spells from unusual zones, and Angel of Indemnity recurring itself from the graveyard feeds that pattern while the lifelink body stabilizes boards long enough for Joshua to close the game.

04
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

24.4% of decks · synergy 0.24

Yuma, Proud Protector mills constantly, and Angel of Indemnity landing in the graveyard early becomes a free recovery target — once it enters, you get your permanent back and a threat that reburies itself on death.

05
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.13

Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd blinks creatures to generate card advantage, and Angel of Indemnity's enter-the-battlefield trigger fires each time Phelia flickers it, turning a single Angel into a repeating recursion engine over the course of a game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Angel of Indemnity is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage the six-mana cost is prohibitive — those formats have no interest in a fair recursion trigger when Reanimate and Animate Dead exist. Oathbreaker could use it in the right shell but the format's smaller life totals and faster games make the investment questionable. Commander is where the card earns its slot: multiplayer games go long enough that six mana is reachable, graveyard synergy is endemic to the format, and a self-recurring 5/4 lifelink flier generates real advantage across multiple turns.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,206 decks
Preston, the VanisherAngel of IndemnityFelidar Guardian

Preston, the VanisherAngel of IndemnityFelidar Guardian

Exile all nonland permanents opponents control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking of permanents; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Angel of Indemnity is bulk — pick it up in any trade binder or throw it in a cart without thinking about it. The price reflects Standard ineligibility and casual-format demand, not the card's power ceiling in the right Commander shell.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.