Battle Angels of Tyr
Creature — Angel Knight
Flying, myriad
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if that player has more cards in hand than each other player. Then you create a Treasure token if that player controls more lands than each other player. Then you gain 3 life if that player has more life than each other player.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos
- Price
- $24.41
- EDHREC rank
- #1721
Battle Angels of Tyr lands as a 4/4 flying lifelinker that hands your opponents treasure, cards, and life — but only to those already behind you, which means the table perception cost is lower than the text suggests. At five mana in three colors, it's the kind of card that does the political work of a group-hug piece while quietly advancing your own board, and Shilgengar, Sire of Famine exposes exactly how predatory those 'gifts' can be when your opponents' life totals are a resource you're already targeting.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine runs Battle Angels of Tyr because paying life is the engine — opponents losing life to give you triggers is a feature, not a concession. The treasures and cards accelerate the sacrifice-for-damage loop while Shilgengar converts every point of life into progress.
Giada, Font of Hope
Giada, Font of Hope wants every Angel it can find, and Battle Angels of Tyr is one of the better five-drops in the tribe — flying plus lifelink fits the defensive lifegain shell, and the political triggers help the deck survive long enough to go wide. Giada's cost reduction means Battle Angels of Tyr often lands ahead of curve.
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope cares about life totals and drip-gain effects, and Battle Angels of Tyr's lifelink plus conditional triggers synergize with that gameplan. The card and treasure gifts to opponents below your life total also generate the kind of small advantages that compound in a value-oriented white deck.
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir leads a Knights-first strategy, but Battle Angels of Tyr earns a slot as a high-impact tribal-adjacent beater that keeps the life-total gap wide enough for Jabari's first-strike triggers to matter. The conditional gifts functionally reward Jabari for maintaining board and life advantages the deck already wants.
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant runs a go-wide Dragon and Angel package, and Battle Angels of Tyr fills the five-mana slot with relevant keywords and a trigger suite that rewards the aggressive high-power gameplay Dion enables. The treasures in particular accelerate the expensive top end that Dion's strategy depends on.
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 |
Battle Angels of Tyr is a Commander card — full stop. The political trigger mechanic and the five-mana price tag are tuned for multiplayer games where life-total differentials between three or four opponents generate real value on every attack. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but entirely unplayed; the card does nothing fast enough to matter in those formats, where five-mana creatures need to close games immediately. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Battle Angels of Tyr could conceivably see play, and even there it competes for a slot in a smaller 60-card format where the political upside is compressed. Build around it in Commander or don't build around it at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
The closest budget analog is Breena, the Demagogue, which similarly rewards attacking opponents who are ahead or behind and generates card advantage without the Angel-tribal restriction — at under $3, it does the political-value work at a fraction of the cost. If you specifically want the lifelink-plus-conditional-gifts package on an Angel body, Righteous Valkyrie covers the lifegain angle for around $4, though it doesn't replicate the treasure or card-draw triggers that make Battle Angels of Tyr worth its slot in dedicated Angel lists.
Price Context
Current price
$24.41 premium tier
At $24.41, Battle Angels of Tyr sits in the premium tier — meaningful spend for a card that earns its slot in maybe two or three archetypes rather than going in every white deck. It holds value as long as Angel tribal and Shilgengar, Sire of Famine remain popular Commander builds, but it's not a card you buylist into a generic goodstuff pile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
- Giada, Font of Hope
- Niko, Light of Hope
- Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.