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Giada, Angel Tribal / Affinity
Deck Size: 103
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Est deck cost: $361.13
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Commander

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Giada, Font of Hope

Flying, vigilance Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control. {T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.

Creature
Giada, Font of Hope (snc) 342

Commander

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Counters

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Elspeth Resplendent

+1: Choose up to one target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter and a counter from among flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance on it. −3: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield with a shield counter on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: Create five 3/3 white Angel creature tokens with flying.

Planeswalker
Elspeth Resplendent (snc) 282
Gleam of Authority

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on other creatures you control. Enchanted creature has vigilance and "{W}, {T}: Bolster 1." (To bolster 1, choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Enchantment
Gleam of Authority (dtk) 19
Resplendent Marshal

Flying When this creature enters or dies, you may exile another creature card from your graveyard. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control other than this creature that shares a creature type with the exiled card.

Creature
Resplendent Marshal (khm) 337
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (sld) 1741
Youthful Valkyrie

Flying Whenever another Angel you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Youthful Valkyrie (fdn) 149

Counters

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Proliferate

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Metastatic Evangel

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Metastatic Evangel (mh3) 393
Norn's Choirmaster

Flying, first strike Whenever a commander you control enters or attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Norn's Choirmaster (onc) 46

Proliferate

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Removal

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Angel of Finality

Flying When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Angel of Finality (fdn) 136
Angel of Serenity

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Creature
Angel of Serenity (c21) 83
Angel of the Ruins

Flying When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Angel of the Ruins (otc) 78
Bovine Intervention

Destroy target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 2/2 white Ox creature token.

Instant
Bovine Intervention (otj) 6
Everything Comes to Dust

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Exile all creatures except those that share a creature type with a creature that convoked this spell, all artifacts, and all enchantments.

Sorcery
Everything Comes to Dust (who) 19
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (mh1) 11
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (blc) 147
Reprieve

Return target spell to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (fdn) 148
Sunblast Angel

Flying When this creature enters, destroy all tapped creatures.

Creature
Sunblast Angel (afc) 74
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ice) 54

Removal

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Angel

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Aurelia's Vindicator

Flying, lifelink, ward {2} Disguise {X}{3}{W} When this creature is turned face up, exile up to X other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Creature
Aurelia's Vindicator (pmkm) 4p
Segovian Angel

Flying, vigilance

Creature
Segovian Angel (mh1) 25
Sigarda's Vanguard

Flash Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, choose any number of creatures with different powers. Those creatures gain double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Sigarda's Vanguard (mic) 8
Wojek Investigator

Flying, vigilance At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Wojek Investigator (mkm) 340

Angel

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Draw

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Chivalric Alliance

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card. {2}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 white and blue Knight creature token with vigilance.

Enchantment
Chivalric Alliance (moc) 11
Cut a Deal

Each opponent draws a card, then you draw a card for each opponent who drew a card this way.

Sorcery
Cut a Deal (onc) 63
Folk Hero

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell that shares a creature type with this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn."

Enchantment
Folk Hero (clb) 650
Four Knocks

Vanishing 4 (This enchantment enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of your first main phase, draw a card.

Enchantment
Four Knocks (who) 340
Inspiring Overseer

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Inspiring Overseer (snc) 18
Smuggler's Share

At the beginning of each end step, draw a card for each opponent who drew two or more cards this turn, then create a Treasure token for each opponent who had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn.

Enchantment
Smuggler's Share (mkc) 84

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Protection

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (m3c) 165
Angelic Guardian

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, they gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Creature
Angelic Guardian (g18) GP1
Archangel of Tithes

Flying As long as this creature is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures. As long as this creature is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Archangel of Tithes (otj) 2
Dawn Charm

Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

Instant
Dawn Charm (cmr) 371
Flare of Fortitude

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 26
Kindred Boon

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. {1}{W}: Put a divinity counter on target creature you control of the chosen type. Each creature you control with a divinity counter on it has indestructible.

Enchantment
Kindred Boon (lcc) 129
Loran's Escape

Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.

Instant
Loran's Escape (bro) 14
Mandate of Peace

Cast this spell only during combat. Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. End the combat phase. (Remove all attackers and blockers from combat. Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this spell.)

Instant
Mandate of Peace (c19) 4
Metropolis Reformer

Flying, vigilance You have hexproof. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Metropolis Reformer (mat) 152
Surge of Salvation

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

Instant
Surge of Salvation (mom) 41
Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Instant
Unbreakable Formation (rna) 29

Protection

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Stax

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Angelic Arbiter

Flying Each opponent who cast a spell this turn can't attack with creatures. Each opponent who attacked with a creature this turn can't cast spells.

Creature
Angelic Arbiter (cma) 4

Stax

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Anthem

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Angel of Invention

Flying, vigilance, lifelink Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Angel of Invention (kld) 4
Thraben Watcher

Flying, vigilance Other nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Creature
Thraben Watcher (mh2) 34

Anthem

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Land

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Blighted Steppe

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

Land
Blighted Steppe (bfz) 232
Diamond City

This land enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Move a shield counter from this land onto target creature. Activate only if two or more creatures entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Land
Diamond City (pip) 147
Eiganjo Castle

{T}: Add {W}. {W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

Land
Eiganjo Castle (plst) CHK-275
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (pneo) 268p
Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (plst) ZEN-213
Idyllic Grange

({T}: Add {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Plains. When this land enters untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Land
Idyllic Grange (eld) 246
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (ltc) 368
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (kld) 252
Seraph Sanctuary

When this land enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Seraph Sanctuary (plst) AVR-228
Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Land
Windbrisk Heights (pip) 527

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (pip) 224
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (onc) 130
Herald of War

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Angel spells and Human spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Herald of War (avr) 24
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (c17) 53
Marble Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (clb) 320
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (znc) 114
Oketra's Monument

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

Artifact
Oketra's Monument (plst) AKH-233
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Starnheim Aspirant

Angel spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Creature
Starnheim Aspirant (plst) KHM-380
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297

Ramp

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Tokens

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Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) {1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if this enchantment has four or more quest counters on it.

Enchantment
Luminarch Ascension (a25) 23

Tokens

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Lifegain

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Boon-Bringer Valkyrie

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Flying, first strike, lifelink

Creature
Boon-Bringer Valkyrie (mom) 343
Holy Cow

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you gain 2 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Holy Cow (otj) 16
Lyra Dawnbringer

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

Creature
Lyra Dawnbringer (dmr) 413
Righteous Valkyrie

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature
Righteous Valkyrie (khm) 338
Shattered Angel

Flying Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Shattered Angel (nph) 23
Steel Seraph

Prototype {1}{W}{W} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Flying At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, or lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Steel Seraph (pbro) 38p

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Breathkeeper Seraph

Flying, soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Breathkeeper Seraph is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "When this creature dies, you may return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep."

Creature
Breathkeeper Seraph (voc) 69

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Aegis Angel

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Creature
Aegis Angel (e01) 1
Angelic Cub

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying.

Creature
Angelic Cub (j22) 2
Angelic Sleuth

Flying Whenever another permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, investigate. (Create a Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Angelic Sleuth (ncc) 113
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (m3c) 167
Battle Angels of Tyr

Flying, myriad Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if that player has more cards in hand than each other player. Then you create a Treasure token if that player controls more lands than each other player. Then you gain 3 life if that player has more life than each other player.

Creature
Battle Angels of Tyr (clb) 9
Enduring Angel

Creature
Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17
Glorious Protector

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may exile any number of non-Angel creatures you control until this creature leaves the battlefield. Foretell {2}{W}

Creature
Glorious Protector (clb) 695
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (voc) 90
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (dsc) 100

Maybeboard

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Tokens & Extras

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Angel

Flying

Creature Token
Angel (totj) 2
Angel

Flying

Creature Token
Angel (tdsc) 2
Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tblc) 37
Elephant

Creature Token
Elephant (tblc) 27
Human

Creature Token
Human (tblc) 6
Knight

Vigilance

Creature Token
Knight (tmom) 10
Ox

Creature Token
Ox (totj) 3
Servo

Creature Artifact Token
Servo (tmh3) 33
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tdsk) 15
Warrior

Vigilance

Creature Token
Warrior (tdmc) 4

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37 mana - 37 cards
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