Skip to content
Moxonomy

Sigarda's Vanguard

Creature — Angel4 generic manaWhite mana

The clever part is the constraint on how many creatures the double strike can reach: not a flat "your team," but "creatures with different powers." That single word turns a straightforward anthem effect into a small deckbuilding puzzle, rewarding a board whose power values fan out (a 1/1, a 2/2, a 3/1, and up) rather than a uniform swarm of identical tokens. It pushes against the go-wide plan you would expect a white attack-trigger to feed, and toward a spread of distinct bodies. Flash is the piece that makes the trigger dangerous: the enter clause fires at instant speed, so a blocker declared mid-combat can double the strike back on an attacker that expected to trade, or ambush a race outright. The attack version then repeats the effect every turn it swings, which is where the 3/3 flyer earns its keep as a recurring engine that keeps paying out. Angels that hand out double strike are rare precisely because the keyword is so swingy on a wide board; the different-powers rider is the mechanism that keeps it from simply ending games the turn it lands, forcing you to earn the full spread instead of collecting a free team-wide finisher.

Sigarda's Vanguard (mic)
MIC · #8rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.99
Foil:
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, choose any number of creatures with different powers. Those creatures gain double strike until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Quick navigation
move selectesc close