Angelic Cub
Creature — Cat Angel
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.56
- EDHREC rank
- #15222
Angelic Cub enters as a 1/1 and grows into a 4/4 flier with lifelink the moment you gain life — payoff and enabler in one body. The floor is low, but in any white deck that triggers life gain regularly, the ceiling lands fast and for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Angelic Cub is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format gives it the most redundant life gain triggers to reliably transform, and white life gain strategies are well-supported there. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; a 4/4 flier with lifelink is too slow and too conditional to compete with what those formats are doing on turns one and two. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where it could see play in a dedicated life gain shell, but the smaller card pool makes consistent transformation harder to engineer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.56 bulk tier
At $0.56, Angelic Cub sits firmly in bulk rare territory — easy to pick up, no financial risk. Unless it finds a home in a breakout Commander build, there's little pressure on that price in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.