Angel's Feather
Artifact
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2011
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #10203
Angel's Feather gains you 1 life whenever a white spell is cast — a trickle, not a flood, and that's the problem. Even in dedicated lifegain builds, Aerith Gainsborough aside, two mana for a passive that requires a color-dense board to matter is a cost the effect rarely justifies.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aerith Gainsborough
Aerith Gainsborough runs Angel's Feather because her lifegain triggers convert directly into card advantage, making every white spell cast a two-for-one — the Feather feeds the engine rather than sitting as a passive buffer.
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Heliod, Sun-Crowned wants lifegain triggers to distribute +1/+1 counters, and Angel's Feather provides a steady drip in white-heavy lists; it's a low-cost way to fuel Heliod's ability across a long game, even if the payoff per trigger is modest.
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's Feather is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any 60-card format — passive 1-life triggers don't move the needle where games end on turns three through five. Commander is its only real home, and even there the card is narrow: you need a white-heavy meta or a commander that explicitly rewards repeated lifegain triggers to get full value. Outside of those conditions, Angel's Feather is outclassed by lifegain options that either gain more life per trigger or come stapled to a body.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Angel's Feather is bulk — the price reflects the demand accurately. It won't appreciate; the effect is too marginal for competitive play and too redundant in casual lifegain lists to drive meaningful demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.