Card
Avacyn, Guardian Angel
Mana cost {2}{W}{W}{W}
Legendary Creature — Angel 5/4
Flying, vigilance {1}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to another target creature this turn by sources of the color of your choice. {5}{W}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target player or planeswalker this turn by sources of the color of your choice.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · M15 · #3
- Cheapest printing
- €1.00
- EDHREC salt
- 0.24
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Flying, Vigilance
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Both activated abilities prevent all damage of the chosen color, not just combat damage. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Neither activated ability has any effect on damage that’s already been dealt. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Whether the target permanent or player is still a legal target is no longer checked after the appropriate ability resolves. For example, if a creature targeted by the first ability gains protection from white after the ability resolves but before it prevents damage, the effect will still prevent damage. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
For each activated ability, you choose the color as the ability resolves. However, the color of a source that would deal damage to the permanent or player is checked only when it would deal that damage, not as Avacyn’s ability resolves. For example, if you choose blue, damage a blue creature would deal is prevented, even if that creature wasn’t blue (or wasn’t on the battlefield) when Avacyn’s ability resolved. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
The possible color choices are white, blue, black, red, and green. You can’t choose artifact, colorless, or any other word.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast