Legion Angel
Creature — Angel Warrior
Flying
When this creature enters, you may reveal a card you own named Legion Angel from outside the game and put it into your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.50
- EDHREC rank
- #24787
Legion Angel enters as a 4/3 flying body and immediately pulls another copy from outside the game — but only if you've built around stacking multiples in your sideboard or wishboard. In formats where that setup isn't available, it's just a vanilla four-drop, and four mana for a 4/3 flier doesn't clear the bar in 2024.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Legion Angel's entire value proposition depends on having copies in reserve outside the game, which makes it almost exclusively a 60-card Constructed card. In Pioneer and Modern it saw brief consideration in white weenie and Angel tribal sideboards, but the four-mana cost made it too slow against linear aggro and too fragile against counterspells for combo. Commander effectively kills the card — you can only run one copy in the 99, so the triggered ability never fires, and you're left with a 4/3 flier for four that does nothing unique in a format running Lyra Dawnbringer and Baneslayer Angel at the same slot. Legacy has the raw card quality to make Legion Angel irrelevant on power alone.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.50 bulk tier
At $0.50, Legion Angel is firmly bulk, and that price is unlikely to move without a reprint into a competitive format where the outside-the-game clause actually functions. Pick up copies freely if you're building an Angel tribal 60-card deck, but don't expect the card to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.