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Platinum Angel

Artifact Creature — Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{7}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Historic Anthology 2
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1773
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Platinum Angel card art
Platinum Angel makes it impossible for you to lose the game — as long as it stays on the battlefield, any condition that would cause you to lose simply doesn't apply. The cost is the word "artifact": every opponent's removal spell, board wipe, and Naturalize effect becomes a must-answer the moment this hits the table. It's the backbone of Phage the Untouchable builds and the enabler of Ad Nauseam loops that would otherwise kill you, and for those specific purposes nothing else does the job.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Phage the Untouchable

Phage the Untouchable

84.3% of decks · synergy 0.83

Phage the Untouchable loses the game on contact with anything other than a combat damage trigger, so Platinum Angel is the premier safety net — casting Phage from hand while the Angel is in play means you don't immediately concede to your own commander.

02
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

43.5% of decks · synergy 0.43

Teval, Arbiter of Virtue cares about life totals and counters in ways that can push your life to zero or below during aggressive combo turns, and Platinum Angel keeps those self-inflicted death triggers from ending the game prematurely.

03
Mister Negative

Mister Negative

33.3% of decks · synergy 0.32

Mister Negative plays with -1/-1 counters and damage-dealing effects that regularly drain the controller's life total, making Platinum Angel a reliable insurance policy that lets those engines run without fear of losing.

04
Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Avacyn, Angel of Hope already protects the board with indestructible, and Platinum Angel slots into that shell as a redundant can't-lose effect — together they form a two-piece lock that's very difficult for opponents to dismantle.

05
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence

Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence converts life loss into power and damage, incentivizing you to lose as much life as possible, and Platinum Angel is the reason those self-damage engines don't end the game before you can convert them into lethal output.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Platinum Angel is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it does real work. In 60-card formats the seven-mana cost is a near-disqualifying number — Modern and Legacy play at speeds where this never resolves without a dedicated cheat-into-play shell, and Vintage has enough broken acceleration to make it theoretically castable but rarely optimal. Commander is the correct home: the singleton rule makes redundancy less critical, seven mana is reachable by mid-game, and the political weight of a resolved Platinum Angel changes how every opponent sequences their removal for the rest of the game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Platinum Angel has been reprinted enough times that copies are widely available, and the current price reflects that accessibility rather than scarcity. Check current listings on TCGPlayer or Scryfall for the most accurate number — this is not a card you should have trouble finding at a reasonable entry point.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.