Sigil of the Empty Throne

The payoff that finally gave enchantment-matters decks a reason to exist as a deck rather than a theme. Earlier designs had scattered enchantments around with no engine behind them; this is the card that converts that pile into a board. The construction is deliberately demanding: each Angel costs a full enchantment spell to make, not an enchantment hitting the battlefield, so it rewards a critical mass of cheap auras, totems, and one-shot enchantments rather than a single fat permanent. That distinction is the whole load. The trigger fires on the cast, not on resolution, which carries two consequences worth keeping straight: tokens that copy or reanimate enchantments do nothing for it, because nothing was cast, and an enchantment creature that enters the battlefield without being cast (reanimated, blinked, made as a token) leaves the Angel unmade for the same reason. Hard-cast that same enchantment creature and it counts, since now it is an enchantment spell on the stack. The cast trigger is what makes it engine-shaped instead of merely additive: chain three or four cheap enchantments in a turn and the board lurches from empty to lethal in a single arc. The 4/4 flying body is generous for a token spat out as a byproduct, and the floor matters too, since even a slow draw eventually buries an opponent under fliers if the enchantments keep coming. It heads a small lineage of build-around payoffs that ask you to commit your whole deck to a permanent type, trading generic flexibility for a ceiling nothing in fair white can match once the engine is humming.