Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Legendary Creature — Angel

Flying, lifelink

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (36)

Rakious07 on Mixed Legends

3 weeks ago

What do you think of these cards? Felisa, Fang of Silverquill Board wipe refresher. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion Extra counter's for faster games. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel Board wipe refresher. The Kenriths' Royal Funeral Draw & Mana reduction. Avacyn's Memorial Board wipe Protection although costly. Heroes' Podium Buff & pseudo tutor.

NV_1980 on Ok, Now Kill Yourself

3 months ago

Including a few recursion resources allows one to benefit from the death-triggers of certain creatures even more. Some great examples you could consider on that front would be cards like Athreos, God of Passage, Celestine, the Living Saint, Liesa, Forgotten Archangel, Luminous Broodmoth and Sun Titan. Including Drivnod, Carnage Dominus increases the amount of death triggers even more.

Recursion options provides more incentive to include cards that make death happen as it were, to profit from sacrifices. This could include cards like Ashnod's Altar, Attrition, Hell's Caretaker, Phyrexian Altar, Priest of Forgotten Gods or Warren Soultrader.

Have fun with this brew!

BakingIsPunk13 on A Taste of the Divine

1 year ago

CommanderMeanderer Thank you so much! I had Liesa, Forgotten Archangel in an earlier draft and had concerns about how she would interact with Shilgengar, Sire of Famine and had never even considered sacrificing her when he came out haha! So I’ll definitely add her back in for sure!

Also loving Skeletal Scrying I’ll try including both, can’t have too much extra draw!

Great suggestions!

CommanderMeanderer on A Taste of the Divine

1 year ago

Love the deck!

Did you mean to add Liesa, Forgotten Archangel over Liesa, Shroud of Dusk? Seems more synergistic when you don't have your commander out and you can sacrifice her if he is out.

I'd also suggest considering Skeletal Scrying over Necrologia. It can still be used to fill your graveyard at your end step if you want, but I find it to be more flexible for times when you want to actually draw cards/leave mana up and draw right before your turn.

Gidgetimer on Does Liesa return Sword of …

1 year ago

LTB triggers (including "dies" triggers) check the existence of objects right before the triggering event happens. So what Liesa, Forgotten Archangel sees for the purposes of triggering is that an artifact was put into the graveyard. For the same reason something like Disciple of the Vault would trigger when Sword of the Realms  ^Flip is put into a graveyard, despite it being Halvar, God of Battle  ^Flip the entire time the card exists in the graveyard.

603.10. Normally, objects that exist immediately after an event are checked to see if the event matched any trigger conditions, and continuous effects that exist at that time are used to determine what the trigger conditions are and what the objects involved in the event look like. However, some triggered abilities are exceptions to this rule; the game “looks back in time” to determine if those abilities trigger, using the existence of those abilities and the appearance of objects immediately prior to the event. The list of exceptions is as follows:

603.10a Some zone-change triggers look back in time. These are leaves-the-battlefield abilities, abilities that trigger when a card leaves a graveyard, and abilities that trigger when an object that all players can see is put into a hand or library.

Quickspell on Does Liesa return Sword of …

1 year ago

I probably can answer this to myself, but I need to make sure.

When Sword of the Realms  ^Flip is out into a graveyard, it becomes the creature Halvar, God of Battle  ^Flip again, since that is the face side of the MDFC card.

Since it was an artifact when put into a graveyard, it did not die and therefore Halvar will not be returned with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel, is that correct?

orcopollo on The Angelic Vampire

1 year ago

Great deck! Have you considered Liesa, Forgotten Archangel for your angel subtheme? I think it could make a nice reanimation addition!

JackNavi on Chicken Dinner @ FemBoi Farms

1 year ago

Last_Laugh , Thanks for putting Crackdown on my radar. Looks like a Backbreaker! I'll def try that out on the next swap out if the current strategy isn't working out. Speaking of different strategies, your Added Layers deck is pretty sweet! DRAW DRAW DRAW DRAW DRAW but in a different flavor; Your deck has reminded me that Liesa, Forgotten Archangel can also be included in this deck. TYSM, I love it my Guy!