Did you know that Terese Nielsen is my favorite
Magic artist? This is one reason why. She may
become your favorite too, after you try this
card and utterly lock out Phyrexian mana spells,
fetchland-enabled five-color manabases, Greater
Good + Ryusei, Acidic Sliver, and countless
other nasty things. The only drawback is that
you have to commit to white, and her
incompatibility with fetchlands makes it
somewhat harder for you to use older lands to
get around that, but her ability makes it
extremely tempting. Still think every deck
should play Dismember?
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day: Angel of
Jubilation
Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
an interesting and powerful angel the glorious
anthem ability is highly relevant and the
ability to shut down relevant cards such as
Griselbrand or Birthing Pod make it have a
powerful niche. In standard this card will see
some play but the triple white casting cost
surely limits its playability but the decks that
can play it benefit highly from the versatility
this card offers. In modern an additional
Crusade effect and the ability to shut down a
wide variety of random cards give it some niche
playability. In legacy and vintage being able to
randomly shut down cards is good and buffing a
team of weenies is powerful but once again the
casting cost will severely hamper this cards
playability. In casual and multiplayer this card
is great pump effects are powerful and angels
are a popular and supported tribe making this a
perfect and fun multiplayer and casual card. In
limited it’s hard to cast, limiting you to
mostly mono white although the flying body and
pump for your team makes it somewhat of a bomb
card. Overall this is a powerful angel that will
receive tremendous casual and multiplayer play
and niche competitive play.
Today's card of the day is Angel of Jubilation
which is a four mana White 3/3 with Flying that
gives other non-Black creatures you control
+1/+1 and prevents players from paying life or
sacrificing creatures to
cast spells or activate abilities. While
this can power up most creatures the triple
White in the casting cost keeps this primarily
in mono-White designs and away from other themes
such as Black/White tokens. The effect is
noticeable and can be a major issue for Black
depending on the deck's build which makes this
viable for sidedecks if not played regularly.
Overall this is an aggressively costed card that
has no real drawback in a purely White design
and will likely see play across a variety of
formats.
For Limited the triple White is a difficult to
overcome penalty that will keep it from being
playable until the later stages of a Sealed game
and or when run in a multicolor deck in Booster.
The +1/+1 is quite nice in the format where most
similar effects won't work on all of your
creatures this one will, barring a Black and
White build. Having evasion and powering
up other creatures easily qualifies this as a
first pick in Booster, but drafting mono-White
or only a splash of another color is nearly
required to get the most out of it. In
Sealed it is unlikely that a single color deck
will be possible which should keep Angel of
Jubilation from being maindecked most of the
time.
Welcome to a new week
of card of the day reviews here at Pojo.com!
Hope everyone enjoyed your Memorial Day! To kick
this short week off, we are looking first at
Angel of Jubilation from Avacyn Restored. Angel
of Jubilation is a rare white creature angel
that costs one generic and three white mana for
a 3/3. Angel of Jubilation has flying and says
that other nonblack creatures you control get
+1/+1. Angel of Jubilation also says that
players can’t pay life or sacrifice creatures to
cast spells or activate abilities.
Angel of Jubilation should cause a sense of
Jubilation for you when you play her, and a
sense of dread for your opponent when they see
her, especially depending on the style deck they
are playing. The fact that she is fairly cheap
and pumps all you other creatures so long as
they aren’t black is amazing. Then, it can stop
people out right from spending life and
sacrificing creatures! A lot of newer decks do
sacrifice creatures steadily. Many newer Zombie
decks rely on sacrifices to Grimgrin, but no
more. Dropping the Angel of Jubilation will
likely have your opponent hold off on Grimgrin,
since it would not untap. When playing in
Extended, Eldrazi decks are not even close to as
effective, since the spawn tokens cannot be
sacrificed because it is activating their
ability. Majorly messes up some major deck
ideas.
A definite card for any deck using
white, especially if black is not in your deck.
The benefit of the pumps alone is enough to main
deck it, then the chances of the rest of her
abilities helping out are just to great to have
her sitting in a sideboard. A must, even if only
two copies.
