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Angel of Vitality

Creature — Angel

Flying
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Foundations
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2072
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Angel of Vitality card art
Angel of Vitality turns every life gain trigger into +2 life instead of +1 and pushes your starting ceiling to 25 — that math compounds fast in dedicated lifegain shells. It's the card that makes Aetherflux Reservoir lethal several turns earlier, and in Giada, Font of Hope it flies in as an Angel that immediately pays for itself in the tribal count.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Giada, Font of Hope

Giada, Font of Hope

66.2% of decks · synergy 0.53

Giada, Font of Hope runs every Angel it can trust, and Angel of Vitality earns its slot twice over — it's on-tribe for Giada's +1/+1 counter engine and doubles the life gain that white Angel lifegain synergies stack up across a long game.

02
Hope Estheim

Hope Estheim

40.7% of decks · synergy 0.38

Hope Estheim cares deeply about your life total as a resource, and Angel of Vitality's doubling effect means every incidental gain translates to a wider margin for Hope Estheim's cost-reduction and trigger conditions.

03
Will, Scion of Peace

Will, Scion of Peace

36.3% of decks · synergy 0.33

Will, Scion of Peace reduces spell costs based on life gained each turn, so Angel of Vitality's doubling effect directly translates to cheaper spells — more life gained means more mana saved.

04
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

32.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant rewards high life totals with card advantage and triggers, and Angel of Vitality accelerates the pace at which Bilbo clears the thresholds that matter.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Angel of Vitality does its best work — lifegain is a supported archetype with enough redundancy that doubling each instance is a meaningful engine piece rather than a marginal bonus. In Modern and Pioneer, dedicated lifegain decks exist but the competition at two mana is stiff, and Angel of Vitality rarely makes the cut over pieces with more immediate board impact. Legacy and Vintage have no practical home for it. Oathbreaker can support it in the same lifegain shells that Commander does, just at a smaller table scale. Angel of Vitality is legal in Standard but that format lacks the density of lifegain payoffs to make it a build-around.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Angel of Vitality isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. It's a casual-demand card with no competitive constructed presence, which historically keeps reprinted uncommons like this accessible.

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