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Angelic Guardian

Creature — Angel4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The attack trigger is the whole reason this Angel exists, and it flips the usual math of a mass-alpha strike. Normally the risk of swinging with everything is that your opponent trades up in combat and picks off your board with removal; here, once the trigger resolves, they cannot be destroyed for the rest of the turn. Chump blocks bounce off, combat-damage kills evaporate, and instant-speed destroy effects stop being answers to your attack. Note the exact boundary of the protection: it is indestructibility, not full shroud, so bounce, exile, edicts, and minus-toughness effects still work, and the grant lasts only until end of turn (the creatures are vulnerable again on your opponent's swing back). The body itself is a stock six-mana flying beater, but the ability rewards going wide rather than tall: one attack step converts a whole team into an un-tradeable board. That the effect is untargeted (no activation cost, no dependence on the Angel surviving once the trigger is on the stack) is what separates it from the many white creatures that hand out combat protection one creature at a time. It is a straightforward payoff for a token or aggro-swarm shell that wants a single card to make its attack step lethal without fear of blocks.

Angelic Guardian (g18)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, they gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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

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