Angel of the Ruins
Artifact Creature — Angel
Flying
When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Plainscycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #1052
Angel of the Ruins enters and immediately exiles up to two artifacts or enchantments — that's a two-for-one removal spell stapled to a 5/6 flying body for seven mana. The cost is real, but Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists and any reanimation shell treat seven mana as a footnote when the card goes straight from graveyard to battlefield.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists mills Angel of the Ruins directly into the graveyard and then recurs it, turning a seven-mana spell into a repeatable two-permanent removal engine that resets every time the angel dies.
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine sacrifices creatures to drain opponents, and Angel of the Ruins fits as a high-value sacrifice target — a 5/6 flier that cleans up two permanents on the way in, then fuels Shilgengar's engine on the way out.
Osgir, the Reconstructor
Osgir, the Reconstructor doubles artifacts out of the graveyard, but Angel of the Ruins earns its slot as the artifact-and-enchantment sweeper that clears the path before Osgir's engine goes wide.
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Sefris of the Hidden Ways triggers dungeon progress whenever a creature hits the graveyard, so Angel of the Ruins works double duty — wiping two permanents on entry and then cycling through Sefris's dungeon chain when it inevitably dies or gets reanimated again.
Gandalf the White
Gandalf the White casts permanents from the top of libraries and reanimates legendary creatures, making Angel of the Ruins a recurrable removal piece that clears blockers and problem enchantments ahead of Gandalf's big turns.
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 |
Angel of the Ruins is a Commander card through and through — the seven-mana cost is acceptable in a 40-life multiplayer format where reanimation is plentiful and two-for-one removal on a flying body compounds over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but irrelevant; those formats end before seven mana matters, and Swords to Plowshares handles the same problem for one. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton reanimation DNA, so Angel of the Ruins sees occasional play there too, particularly in white-based graveyard strategies that want a haymaker with a built-in enters-the-battlefield payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Angel of the Ruins is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a dollar bin without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb without a reprint-driven spike or a sudden Commander surge, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.