Angel of Jubilation
Creature — Angel
Flying
Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1.
Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $11.58
- EDHREC rank
- #4991
Angel of Jubilation shuts off every pay-life cost and sacrifice-as-cost trigger on the table — Phyrexian mana, fetchlands, and Aether Storm-style effects all stop working — while simultaneously pumping every other nonblack, nonred creature you control. Three mana for a 3/3 flyer that combines a meaningful hate piece with an anthem is the kind of value that earns a slot without arguing for it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Giada, Font of Hope
Giada, Font of Hope is an Angel tribal deck, and Angel of Jubilation checks every box: it's an Angel that counts toward Giada's counters trigger, it pumps the whole nonblack nonred board, and it taxes opposing interaction that requires life payments. Forty-three percent inclusion across 31,000 decks reflects exactly how well it fits.
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
Avacyn, Angel of Hope runs a critical mass of Angels, and Angel of Jubilation is one of the few in that slot that doubles as a hate piece — the anthem effect stacks with Avacyn's indestructibility to make combat even more punishing for opponents. The 35% inclusion rate says most Avacyn pilots have figured that out.
Sigarda, Font of Blessings
Sigarda, Font of Blessings cares about Angels and Humans, so Angel of Jubilation pulls double duty as both a synergy piece and a soft lock against sacrifice-based removal and Phyrexian-mana interaction. That cross-tribe overlap is why it lands in roughly one in four Sigarda lists.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade wants as many flying creatures as possible, and Angel of Jubilation adds a 3/3 flyer that also buffs the entire aerial board. The anthem is particularly relevant here because Sephara decks go wide with flyers and need each attacker to count.
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight decks need to protect their commander and close games quickly, and Angel of Jubilation contributes on both axes — the anthem turns your team into a faster clock, and the no-sacrifice clause shuts off sacrifice-based removal that could answer Gisela before she takes over. Fifteen percent inclusion is lower than tribal homes but still consistent for a non-Angel commander.
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 where Angel of Jubilation does its best work — the format is thick with fetchlands, Phyrexian mana, and sacrifice outlets, and a resolved Angel of Jubilation taxes all of them while growing your board. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but barely sees play there; four mana is too slow for those formats, and the hate is too narrow to justify the tempo loss. Modern is legal but similarly unplayed — the same speed issue applies, and dedicated hate pieces in those formats tend to be cheaper and more efficient. Angel of Jubilation is fundamentally a Commander card, designed for a multiplayer environment where a 3/3 flyer with a permanent anthem has time to generate real value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Angel of JubilationAether Storm
Players can't cast creature spells; Lock
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Angel of Jubilation is out of budget, Hushbringer and Tocatli Honor Guard cover part of the enter-the-battlefield hate angle for under a dollar each, but neither replicates the anthem or the sacrifice/life-payment tax. For the pump effect alone, Glorious Anthem costs under a dollar and hits the same nonblack nonred creatures, though you're giving up a flying body and the hate text entirely — Angel of Jubilation earns its premium by doing three things at once.
Price Context
Current price
$11.58 mid tier
At $11.58, Angel of Jubilation sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough to notice in a budget build, justified in any deck where the hate text is live. It's a single-printing card with consistent demand across Angel tribal and white stax strategies, so the price reflects genuine scarcity rather than hype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Aether Storm
- Giada, Font of Hope
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope
- Sigarda, Font of Blessings
- Sephara, Sky's Blade
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.