Shattered Angel
Creature — Phyrexian Angel
Flying
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2011
- Price
- $1.10
- EDHREC rank
- #6636
Shattered Angel gains you 3 life every time an opponent plays a land — in a four-player game, that's a life-gain engine that runs itself without any additional investment. The five-mana 3/3 body is underwhelming, but in the right shell, Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos and similar commanders that reward incremental life totals make the math work.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos converts life gain into proliferate triggers, and Shattered Angel feeds that engine every time an opponent drops a land — which is basically every turn of the game.
Giada, Font of Hope
Shattered Angel is an Angel that generates life passively, which is exactly the kind of card Giada, Font of Hope wants stacked on the board — it fuels lifegain payoffs while Giada keeps the tribe moving.
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn's join the Phyrexians mechanic cares about opponents taking actions, and Shattered Angel turns one of the most common actions in the game — playing a land — into a consistent life-gain drip.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shattered Angel is a Commander card through and through — the life-gain trigger scales with the number of opponents, so four-player pods are where it earns its slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; five mana for a 3/3 with a slow, conditional upside doesn't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your planeswalker cares about life totals, but the two-player default cuts the trigger frequency in half. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.10 cheap tier
At $1.10, Shattered Angel sits in impulse-buy territory — you're not making a significant financial commitment to test it. It's a bulk rare with a stable niche audience, so the price reflects exactly what it is: a role-player that earns its slot in specific decks and sees little demand elsewhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.