Gabriel Angelfire
Legendary Creature — Angel
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose flying, first strike, trample, or rampage 3. Gabriel Angelfire gains that ability until your next upkeep. (Whenever a creature with rampage 3 becomes blocked, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Chronicles Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25306
Gabriel Angelfire is a six-mana 4/3 flying, trample, first strike creature that rotates one keyword ability per upkeep — impressive on paper, fragile in practice. Six mana for a body that dies to any Doom Blade and requires a full turn cycle before it does anything unusual is not a trade most powered tables will accept.
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 |
Gabriel Angelfire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in all of them. In Commander, a six-mana creature needs to either win the game on the spot, generate immediate card advantage, or be near-unkillable — Gabriel Angelfire does none of those things. Legacy and Vintage have access to everything ever printed and will never spend a slot on a vanilla-rate six-drop with a delayed upside. Oathbreaker is the one context where an older, flavor-forward card might find a home in a themed build, but even there, Gabriel Angelfire competes against decades of strictly better options.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Gabriel Angelfire isn't currently available, but as a Reserved List card with negligible competitive demand, copies tend to surface in the $1–5 range at most vendors — collectible curiosity more than playable commodity. Pick one up if you're completing an old-border collection or building a deliberately retro Commander deck; don't expect the price to move on gameplay merit.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.