How Good is Angel of Jubilation?
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Posted on April 7, 2025, 10:34 p.m. by DemonDragonJ
I have copies of Angel of Jubilation in several of my decks, since white is my favorite color in the game (with black as a very close second), and I believe that she is an excellent embodiment of white's philosophy, but I wonder how other players regard her.
A 3/3 creature with flying and an "anthem" effect for four mana is quite nice, and her final ability can hinder many strategies, but it is also rather situational, so she may not be a universally useful creature, but I still am very fond of her, so I certainly am interested in hearing the opinions that others have, about her.
What does everyone else say, about this? How good is Angel of Jubilation?
Also, as a side note, it would be very nice if WotC reprinted her, since they have not yet done so, and she has become rather expensive, in my mind.
I agree with wallisface. The only use I can think of for it is that it might hose some commanders, but it seems like a horrible card in general.
April 7, 2025 11:49 p.m.
Angel of Jubilation has a fairly strong stax effect (the anthem and the 3/3 flyer mean very little in most decks), meaning it might be reasonable in a 3 or 4, but as is usually true of stax you could just play good cards yourself instead of playing a bunch of bad stax cards that make good cards suck. I think it's a worse card than Clarion Conqueror fwiw, though Conqueror will get you publicly defenestrated if you play it in the wrong pod. If you plan to play vs lower power decks (1s and 2s) I would avoid most stax effects, they aren't as effective there and people rarely appreciate meta plays in non-competitive games. Vs higher power decks I would play stax if you hate explosive games, stax decks make for longer games on average (unless you're combining stax with an actual win con, you mostly see this in cEDH).
General point, most stax/hatebear effects improve dramatically if you play more interlocking parts, if you have this AND say Archon of Emeria out it might be impossible for some decks to win until they kill your hatebears. I think the biggest problem with this specific stax Angel is that you'd want it most badly in 4s and 5s, and neither of those brackets wants to pay 4 mana for a 3/3, let alone 1WWW (unless you're in mono-white I guess?).
In my personal experience the odds go up dramatically that whatever I'm trying to do is nowhere near optimal if I find I really want to make it a stax deck, my examples are Boros Weenies or Dimir Discard, neither is really good enough without some really weird board restrictions at the power level I want to play those decks, so in go fun stuff like Static Orb!
April 8, 2025 8:12 a.m.
plakjekaas says... #5
It shuts down some very poweful stuff like phyrexian mana, Necropotence and Flooded Strand and the other fetchlands like it. The shocklands ( Sacred Foundry
) become mere guildgates. It could be a middle-of-the-road card in bracket 3 decks to punish the players who overbuilt and overoptimised for their bracket in, probably, a mono white deck. Niche corner to perform, but the anthem does help most mono white strategies that would want to play this, so that it's not a dead card when your opponents don't play fetchlands. It both slows your opponents, and speeds up your mono white win. That's far from horrible in commander. If the anthem is not going to help your boardstate much in a multicolor deck, I'd have hesitations to play it though.
It also shuts down Aristocrat strategies. If you hate those with a passion, play this card.
April 8, 2025 12:20 p.m.
wallisface says... #6
plakjekaas the way the card is worded, it does nothing to hinder shocklands like Sacred Foundry
April 8, 2025 4:24 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #7
Thank you, everyone, for your feedback, so I shall debate about whether or not I shall keep Angel of Jubilation in the decks in which I currently have her.
April 8, 2025 9:25 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #8
wallisface, Bookrook, would you consider Myrel, Shield of Argive a worthy replacement for Angel of Jubilation? Angels are some of my favorite creatures in the game, but Myrel has a more lenient mana cost, and her ability is likely to be relevant more frequently than is that of the angel, so I believe that she is a worthy replacement for the angel.
April 10, 2025 9:48 p.m.
wallisface says... #9
DemonDragonJ if your deck isn’t aiming to do some kind of combo that wins you the game immediately on your turn, i’m still not convinced this effect is worthwhile -particularly for 4 mana, which is super-high for a taxes effect. This cards effect is also particularly narrow/weak because it’s only active during your turn.
Something like Clarion Conqueror might be more fitting if you’re trying to slow down your opponents from doing particular things. But note that even though this card reads waaay-stronger than the two you’ve mentioned, it’s still super situational, and so not something you should be aiming to include in a deck unless you're deck is actively trying to tax other players out of the game
April 10, 2025 10:29 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #10
wallisface, Clarion Conqueror affects my permanents, as well, whereas Myrel does not, and I currently have Angel of Jubilation in two different decks, but neither of those decks are the type that seek to win immediately, nor restrict my opponents to an almost oppressive extent, but I also am fond of Myrel for her ability to generate tokens, since both of the decks in which I have the angel have a focus on combat.
April 11, 2025 8:21 a.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #11
DreadKhan, plakjekaas, do you believe that Myrel, Shield of Argive would be a good replacement for Angel of Jubilation?
April 11, 2025 4:13 p.m.
plakjekaas says... #12
As an opponent, Myrel, Shield of Argive looks more suspicious, like you have combo's to protect. People might show aggression towards you more, because of that. If you don't actually have combo's to protect, I personally wouldn't want the additional aggression towards me because of it. I think that card makes you look more threatening than an Angel of Jubilation would. I'd rather play the anthem and accidentally annoy very specific opponents than look threatening in ways I'm not. But if you have a lot of soldiers in your deck otherwise, the attack trigger might become a reason to play Myrel.
Have a reason to include cards in your deck for supporting your strategy. That's almost always a better way to build your deck than discussing which card is individually more powerful. The cards need to perform well with the rest of your deck, make sure they fit. And looking scary without a plan to actually be scary is a foolish way to lose.
April 11, 2025 9:56 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #13
plakjekaas, that definitely makes sense, and I actually have decided that I do not need Myrel as a replacement for the angel in any of the decks in which I have the angel, because I have found cards that better support the strategy of those decks, so I definitely appreciate your feedback.
wallisface says... #2
The card reads as being extremely weak and narrow. I don’t see how this is a card players would consider in a deck at all
April 7, 2025 10:58 p.m.