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Angel of Suffering

Creature — Nightmare Angel3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The trade this card offers is total damage immunity in exchange for your library. Every point that would touch your life total is prevented and doubled onto your graveyard, which means one unblocked attacker for six sets you back a dozen cards, and a burn spell or a wide swing can deck you outright. This inverts the usual clock: where most life-total protection buys you time, this buys you invulnerability at the cost of it, and the two halves of that bargain point at opposite builds. Note what the prevention does not cover. Damage is prevented only when it would be dealt to you, the player; the 5/3 body still takes combat damage and dies to targeted removal like any other flier, so its three toughness matters exactly as much as it looks like it should. Play the card as a shield alone and you race yourself to zero cards. Play it as an engine and the milling stops being a liability: any deck that wants a full graveyard (reanimation, flashback, delve, self-mill payoffs) can treat opposing attacks and burn as free fuel, converting the opponent's aggression into gas. That inversion is the whole idea. The prevention clause is not a survival tool bolted onto a mill payoff; it is the mill payoff, weaponizing the fact that in most games your own life total is the resource you least want to spend and your own library is the one you most want to burn through.

Angel of Suffering (snc)
SNC · #416mythic
Pricing
Normal: $4.21
Foil: $5.55
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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