Metropolis Reformer
Creature — Angel Cleric
Flying, vigilance
You have hexproof.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine: The Aftermath
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4606
Metropolis Reformer enters the battlefield and immediately makes your entire team hexproof and gives you a life payment for every non-combat damage source that targets you — on a 2/4 flier for three mana. The Blazing Sunsteel pairing is the headline: equip it to the Reformer, let something deal non-combat damage to you, and the damage-doubling loop turns into a kill with the life drain trigger stacking. Giada, Font of Hope decks run it because it's an Angel that protects the board while paying for its own slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Giada, Font of Hope
Metropolis Reformer is an Angel that pulls double duty in Giada, Font of Hope — it enters with a +1/+1 counter from Giada's anthem trigger and immediately wraps the whole team in hexproof, protecting the angels you've already invested mana into.
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy cares about creatures with power equal to or greater than their toughness, and Metropolis Reformer's hexproof-granting clause shields your other brawlers from spot removal while Wayta's fight triggers are on the stack.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade already gives her flier board lifelink, so Metropolis Reformer's non-combat damage rider stacks on top — any burn spell aimed at your face also pads your life total, making the whole setup resilient to pinpoint disruption.
Sigarda, Font of Blessings
Sigarda, Font of Blessings runs an Angel and Human tribal shell that wants hexproof as a blanket protection effect, and Metropolis Reformer delivers exactly that while also qualifying for Sigarda's hand-smoothing ability.
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine sacrifices Angels to reanimate bigger ones, but you want those Angels to survive long enough to be worth sacrificing — Metropolis Reformer's board-wide hexproof keeps the pipeline intact by blanking targeted removal.
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 |
Commander is where Metropolis Reformer actually lives: three mana for a flying body, board-wide hexproof, and a damage-to-life-gain rider is a lot of text for the cost, and the Blazing Sunsteel infinite is a real game-ending threat in Angel or white-stax shells. In Pioneer and Modern it's a fringe sideboard consideration against burn and control — the hexproof clause does real work against decks leaning on targeted removal — but a 2/4 for three without immediate card-positive impact rarely makes the main. Legacy and Vintage have enough fast interaction that a three-mana creature without an enters-the-battlefield effect gets buried before it matters. Oathbreaker is the closest analogue to Commander in terms of fit; if your signature spell is a white protection piece, Metropolis Reformer slots naturally.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Blazing SunsteelMetropolis Reformer
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.