Angelic Shield
Enchantment
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #16230
Angelic Shield gives your creatures +0/+1 and can sacrifice itself to return an enchantment to your hand — cheap protection stapled to recursion insurance. It's a fringe card: narrow enough that most decks don't want it, but genuinely useful in enchantress or token-toughness shells where both halves earn their slot.
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 Shield is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the effect is far too minor for those environments. In Commander, it finds a home almost exclusively in dedicated enchantress decks that want cheap auras to trigger constellation effects or in go-wide strategies built around toughness, where the +0/+1 anthem adds up across a wide board. The sacrifice-to-bounce mode is the more interesting half: it lets you recover a key enchantment in response to a removal spell, which has real utility but requires a specific deck architecture to exploit.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Angelic Shield is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box or a budget draft chaff pile. There's no meaningful demand driver to push the price, so expect it to stay in this range unless a future synergy card makes the bounce-an-enchantment mode specifically broken.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.