Sunblast Angel

Creature — Angel

Flying

When this enters the battlefield, destroy all tapped creatures.

Combos

• Rust Tick + Sunblast Angel

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Vintage	Legal
Casual	Legal
Custom	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal

Discussion (47)

JoosetheMuice on Marisi and Friends

2 months ago

Hour of Reckoning, Sunblast Angel, Righteous Fury, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight could be fun.

I really don't love Druids' Repository, Giant Adephage or Frenzied Saddlebrute

lhetrick13 on Angels by my side

2 months ago

Just taking a quick look at the deck a few things jump out to me. With that said, it is not like I am an expert player so take my suggestions with a grain of salt.

First is I feel like unless there is a specific reason you are running more than 60 cards in a deck, it is a trap to do so. All that does it make it so you have less chances of drawing the cards you want to draw. Having 4 copies of a card in a 60 card deck give you a 1-in-15 chance of drawing one of them while a 70 card deck drops that down by an additional 15%. I noticed you are running a lot of single copies of cards and in a 70 card deck you will never see those. I know it is a challenge to do so but I would highly recommend you bite the bullet and shave this down to 60 cards.

Second thing I noticed is a lot of people have commented on your VERY high mana curve and recommended more lands to compensate. Your response is usually that you have cards to help with the mana situation in the deck. I quick look and I counted 7 cards like Land Tax, Knight of the White Orchid, Endless Horizons, Weathered Wayfarer, Extraplanar Lens. There were also like two cards to help drop the cost of your angels down but even with these cards, I would expect the deck really struggles to consistently get set up even in free for all games when you have extra time. I would recommend dropping some of these mana assist cards in exchange for actual lands as if you are running such a high mana curve you really need that 24-25 mana in a 60 card deck, let alone a 70 card deck.

Lastly, just browsing the angels you have in the deck, it looks like you grabbed a lot of your favorite angels. Again, this is going to be a challenge but I would highly recommend you remove some of these angels from the deck to cut things down. For example, you are running Sunblast Angel and Wrath of God which are very similar. It would be easy to cut out Sunblast Angel and just run Wrath of God.

Those are my initial thoughts. Hope they were helpful!

tindolos on Sefris Dunegons

3 months ago

2022 Deck Overhaul

The budget version was pretty fun and goofy to play but I started looking for more consistent ways to get through dungeons and win.

Out

• Arcane Endeavor
• Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• Baleful Strix
• Burnished Hart
• Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• Champion of Wits
• Clay Golem
• Cloudblazer
• Component Pouch
• Curator of Mysteries
• Dungeon Map
• Ethereal Valkyrie
• Extract Brain
• Fellwar Stone
• Grave Endeavor
• Hostage Taker
• Merfolk Looter
• Meteor Golem
• Minimus Containment
• Noxious Gearhulk
• Obsessive Stitcher
• Phantom Steed
• Phyrexian Delver
• Propaganda
• Rod of Absorption
• Sepulchral Primordial
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Soulherder
• Sunblast Angel
• Swords to Plowshares
• Wall of Omens
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Vanish into Memory

In

• Acererak the Archlich
• Animate Dead
• Barrowin of Clan Undurr
• Blood Artist
• Bloodghast
• Carrion Feeder
• Cave of the Frost Dragon
• Command the Dreadhorde
• Consecrated Sphinx
• Counterspell
• Deadeye Navigator
• Doom Whisperer
• Dovin's Veto
• Dungeon Descent
• Ebondeath, Dracolich
• Faithful Mending
• Frantic Search
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Hall of Storm Giants
• Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• Master of Death
• Nadaar, Selfless Paladin
• Path of Peril
• Phyrexian Reclamation
• Phyrexian Tower
• Reassembling Skeleton
• Reveillark
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Teferi, Master of Time
• Triumphant Adventurer
• Viscera Seer

griffstick on Who is Your Favorite Tribal …

3 months ago

I've had 8 tribal decks in my life . I'm down to 3 now. I've had Dragon tribal 2 times. The first was Atarka, World Render. This was a budget build. I once ko'ed someone there turn 3, my turn 4 with cmdr damage. The second tribal Dragon deck was a better Dragon deck. Lathliss, Dragon Queen was the cmdr. It was so much fun. I used this cmdr because I had so many mono red dragons in my binders. This cmdr was just obvious so building it was easy. I have a deck I call hydra fight club and it's really cool. I made a mono black vampire deck. It was my very first deck. Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet was the cmdr. 8 yrs ago. I've had a mono white angel deck that was life gain + enchantments for draw. It was surprisingly strong. Lyra Dawnbringer was the cmdr. This was such fun to play. Dropping a Sunblast Angel on all my opponents was brutal. These are all retired decks.

The tribal decks I still have are mono red goblins. Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin and uts made on a budget. My local lgs store owner dean made a budget Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin deck on a budget. Total cost of the deck was around 100$ so I bought it from him and made slight changes to the deck. It's value is now around 180$. Another triple deck I still have is Varina, Lich Queen. I had a mono black Zombie deck that was all the zombie lords it could fit Mikaeus, the Unhallowed was the cmdr. When Varina, Lich Queen was released. I ask the store owner if he'd like to build a deck with me. We used all the cards from my mono black Zombie deck and built Varina, Lich Queen Zombie lords edh. Pretty cool deck. Kinda strong too. The last tribal deck I still have is is mono white soldiers. Djeru, With Eyes Open is the commander because the real commander of the deck is Elspeth, Sun's Champion. I wanted to build a soldier deck around Elspeth, Sun's Champion's +1 ability. This deck is fun.

I've never had a Morophon deck.

jamochawoke on I will make you tap.

5 months ago

No Sunblast Angel?

libraryjoy on Odric lunarch marshal deck

10 months ago

Oooooh, just thought of another good one: Blinding Light. I love it in conjunction with Sunblast Angel, but also, I have a vicious streak lol. It's great if your meta is not super heavy on white, and it gets you a free shot a lot of times.

MaltOMeal on Absolute Theocracy

1 year ago

Sup lobsternips!

As a baseline, you'll need to add lands, which I'm sure you know. Since you're making Treasure and Gold tokens in this deck you'd probably be good with roughly 34-36 lands, leaning more to the most mana color you'll need, say like a 25/25/50 split if thats what you're going for.

Creatures

- We'll cover your cards to include by type, so lets start with creatures. I like the Angels, Demons, and Dragons subtheme, if you were considering it I'd try and include Kaalia of the Vast if you can get your hands on one, otherwise just slim down on the tribal stuff, reaching too far into each different theme could result in inconsistencies and clunky play. I've been there, it sucks a lot. (Unfortunately, you can't run Shalai, Voice of Plenty since she has a Selesnya color identity)

• Key Angels you may wanna keep: Avacyn, Angel of Hope , Angel of Destiny , Angel of Serenity , Sunblast Angel , Lyra Dawnbringer , Eradicator Valkyrie .

• While I do like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Tariel, Reckoner of Souls they have a high mana cost as most good Angels do, while Tariel synergizes well with your strategy she does have that randomness factor and would advise a more reliable and consistent option. Gisela speeds up the game. As a player this is good and accelerates the game, but as an opponent my first priority would be to get rid of Gisela and that paints an even bigger target on your back.

• Restoration Angel is fantastic for your edict effects, at face value. You'd need to run flicker effects to really make it shine. Basandra, Battle Seraph seems really good, forcing people to attack is nice and it prevents players from casting anything in combat, however it means instant speed removal will be used before the combat step. This also stops you from casting spells in combat.

• As for Human synergy, I really like Teysa Karlov , Thalisse, Reverent Medium , Queen Marchesa , General's Enforcer and Fain, the Broker . All of them work very well with the token strategy, especially Teysa and Thalisse

• Things I wouldn't necessarily include are cards like Juri, Master of the Revue (as good as she is with Fling ), General Kudro of Drannith (incidental unless you go all in on the Human tribal strategy), Devout Chaplain (same reason for Kudro), or Dire Fleet Hoarder (basically a one time effect unless you jump through the Teysa hoop, yes it does give you a Treasure token, but at a cost of 2 mana and the creature dying).

• Things like Ruthless Knave , Pitiless Plunderer , and Impulsive Pilferer perform outstandingly well in terms of more bang for your buck in this case.

• As for Demons I really like the Archfiend of Depravity and Rakdos, the Showstopper , their mass sacrifice effects are wonderful, however Rakdos does effect your board heavily unless you play to his synergies, you wouldn't want Negan to die to his effect would you?

-When it comes to your Dragons, I think you hit the nail on the head, nothing I would really change or take out. Allows for Magda, Brazen Outlaw to have a decent outlet if you don't want an artifact.

-Finally, the other things you've got going. Dockside should just be an auto-include, albeit a heavy price tag, but if you can get one you should definitely include it.

• Dark Impostor , while mana intensive is still a decent mana sink that can function effectively as targeted removal. Definitely keep your edict creatures, they are super useful and trigger Negan, and thats what you want.

• Starnheim Aspirant is useful if you go super heavy into the Angel theme, but if you skimp on the Angel theme this could very often be a dead card.

• Storm-Kiln Artist , I like this a lot for this deck, can be a beater, and generates value.

• Vault Robber , seems bad, and bad to do. Synergizes with Magda and makes Treasure tokens, but thats really it... PLUS it requires you to have a creature in YOUR grave. I'd cut this, but if you have a reason to play it I'm not seeing immediately play it in your deck.

• Viscera Seer , good card, good sac outlet, not much else to say.

• Creatures I'd include based on what I've seen: Solemn Simulacrum , Burnished Hart and Mayhem Devil . Some good ramp and a decent damage dealer if you'd like to play a cheap one. Plus the Devil is great at just 3 mana.

Enchantments

First thing I wanna point out is the abundance of them, its good, but its quite a few. I like the variety of them though, from token generation to mana value, all of them are GOOD in a sense.

Angelic Renewal is basically a one time effect. While good, there are better recursion spells out there, but this one does fit the Angel theme so thats really cool. :D

Land Tax : Definitely play this if you want more inclusions in your deck and want to play less lands, but don't forget to have a focus on more basic lands for the landbase.

Luminarch Ascension is subject to removal by other players, and somewhat makes you a target, but with Divine Visitation and your non-Treasure generators make this super useful.

Aside from that, I think that's a decent spread of enchantments. Nothing to add really, love the inclusion of the Sagas and Revel in Riches .

• You could also put Martyr's Bond in for shenanigans, Hidden Stockpile for utility, or Flameshadow Conjuring for more token synergy.

• Flickerform is also a unique enchantment, but makes it doubly effective with edict creatures like Plaguecrafter .

• Shiny Impetus is good for token generation, but don't play a sacrifice creature to have that player just get rid of it, deceptively good and bad.

• The Eldest Reborn is also another good saga to include if you want another edict type effect, and when it does go off you can get what you want from players' graveyards.

Artifacts

I'm sure you'll add more later, but here are some I'd DEFINITELY include:

The three signets for your colors, Arcane Signet as well.

Goldvein Pick : hidden tRAESurES!!!

Inspiring Statuary for a low mana investment, you can effectively keep your Treasures around, or use your Gold tokens twice(tap it for colorless, then sac it for colored mana).

Panharmonicon to double up on edict effects.

Instants

Not much in this category outside of removal or token generation.

Wouldn't run Secure the Wastes strictly because it doesn't put Humans into play, play the sorcery option Martial Coup instead if you want a token creator with some OOMPH.

I'd recommend more removal, but with everything else considered I think you're pretty much good here. Really like the Crackling Doom and Vona's Hunger inclusions.

Sorceries

OOOOkay, lots to look at here.

• Approach of the Second Sun : Does provide you an effective way to win, very good card for a deck like this especially if the game goes long.
• Brass's Bounty . Love it, not much else to say.
• Contract Killing fits the theme and the flavor. Love it.
• Damnable Pact is good card draw for you, and useful against someone who flies too close to the sun.
• Debt to the Deathless / Entreat the Angels . While both good, is not something you want to draw into early game or open with. I would highly suggest playing less finisher cards like these, but if you wanna play em don't let me stop you.
• Killing Wave . Love it, super good.
• Necrotic Hex . Expensive, but great effect.
• Excavation Technique is actually a really good spell. Synergizes with Magecraft like WoTC intended and is deceptive for your opponents.
• Increasing Devotion / Finale of Glory . One of these is better than the other. I'll let you decide which is which.
• Heartless Pillage / Seize the Spoils . I really like both of these cards as spells and thematically. They work well for Negan and as spells for you to Pillage and Loot with as you please.
• Ruinous Ultimatum / Tragic Arrogance : Both are fantastic, especially as finisher spells. I'd make a point to include both so you have an option when you're ready to win(IE: Revel in Riches in play with a ton of creatures on board, its akin to vandalblasting with a lettuce on board).

Notable Lands

Mortuary Mire : Get that creature back in play!

High Market : Useful when Dictate of Erebos is in play.

Sanctum of Eternity / Command Beacon : You never know when you might need to use them. Negan can get expensive real fast.

That basically does it for my brief review, hope I was of some help!

Shnuff on eddie ang

1 year ago

A Cloudshift that comes back to your hand with some angel ETB effects could be fun Angel of Renewal Angel of the Dawn or even Subjugator Angel + Sunblast Angel .

Gatherer search of all etb modern legal angels (also landfall sorry): https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&subtype=+[angel]&type=+[%22Creature%22]&text=+[enters]+[the]+[battlefield]&format=+[%22Modern%22]