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Requiem Angel

Creature — Angel

Flying
Whenever another non-Spirit creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Shadows of the Past
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#8581
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Requiem Angel card art
Requiem Angel turns every non-Spirit creature death into a 1/1 Spirit token — stack that with Divine Visitation and those tokens become 4/4 Angels, or run it alongside Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second to redirect them into Cats or Dogs instead. Six mana is the honest cost: real impact, but you need to survive to your sixth land.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second

Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second

25.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second lets you swap every Spirit token Requiem Angel generates into a 2/2 Cat with haste or a 3/1 Dog with trample, turning a death-replacement engine into an immediate board presence that pressures opponents the turn it triggers.

02
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger in the deck, which means Requiem Angel produces two Spirit tokens per non-Spirit creature lost — pair that with a sacrifice outlet and the token count compounds fast enough to close games on its own.

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

Commander is where Requiem Angel earns its keep — the format's slower pace gives it time to set up, and token synergies, sacrifice engines, and death-trigger doublers are everywhere in the 99. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; six mana for a conditional token generator doesn't compete with those formats' speed and efficiency. Modern is the same story: the card is legal but functionally absent, squeezed out by faster threats and more efficient payoffs. Stick to Commander, where the seven words "non-Spirit creature you control dies" are worth building around.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available for Requiem Angel right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates before buying. It's a niche Commander card with a narrow but dedicated audience, so price tends to stay modest — confirm before trading for it.

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