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Emeria Angel

Creature — Angel2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Landfall's job was always to make the second land drop matter, and this is the design that proved the keyword could ride on a permanent and keep paying out turn after turn. A 3/3 flier for four is fair on its own; the engine is what you build around it. Every land that enters after it resolves spins off a 1/1 flying token, which turns fetchlands into double triggers, turns a sandbagged hand of lands into a board, and turns flooding (the thing that usually loses games) into incremental pressure in the air. The optional clause does more than it looks: declining a Bird is rarely correct, but the "may" keeps it clean across symmetrical effects and protects you from a forced trigger when a token would be a liability. Its durability comes from rewarding a deck already doing what white aggro wants to do, attack overhead, while quietly paying you for the lands you were drawing anyway. It sits at the head of a small lineage of landfall payoffs that convert mana development into board presence, and it remains the cleanest expression of the idea: no fixed token cap, no sacrifice cost, no upkeep tax, just a flier that keeps printing more fliers as long as you keep hitting your drops.

Emeria Angel (plst)
PLST · #ZEN-11rare
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Normal: $1.92
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

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