Angelic Intervention
Instant
Target creature or planeswalker you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn. If it's a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything with that quality.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #9506
Angelic Intervention saves a creature or planeswalker from any single source of damage or destruction — board wipe, combat, removal — for one white mana at instant speed. It's a clean, cheap trick, and the reason Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon lists run it at a 24% clip is straightforward: protecting a combo piece at this price point is almost free.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon is the engine, and losing it mid-combo to a removal spell or a board wipe means starting over — Angelic Intervention stops that cold for a single white mana, keeping the token generation rolling without interruption.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Angelic Intervention is legal across every major constructed format and finds its best home in Commander, where a single removal spell can blow up a turn's worth of setup. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, it's too narrow — Flusterstorm and Spell Pierce protect combo pieces more efficiently — but in Commander the card's single-target focus is actually a feature, not a liability. Pauper is where it has the most untapped potential outside EDH, since indestructible at instant speed for one mana is genuinely above rate in a format light on protection effects.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Angelic Intervention is firmly bulk — the kind of card you throw in a trade binder and forget about. Bulk protection spells rarely spike unless a specific commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.