Sure it costs seven mana, but can Exquisite Archangel serve as a solution to infectious aggression?
It has a hefty casting cost (to go along with that extra set of arms)… but it also packs a powerful (defensive) punch. With an Angel’s Grace-esque reference to [not] losing the game, many players have wondered about a particular Exquisite Archangel ruling…
As usual, the man Magician with the smoothest voice in all of Canada, Chris Lansdell, is ready to let us know what’s what:
Transcript: Exquisite Archangel & Infect
Billy wants to know how Exquisite Archangel interacts with poison counters.
Well Billy… Not so great.
Sure it’ll exile itself and gain you twenty life, but then the game checks again to see if anyone should die. And oh look! You have ten poison counters!
Sorry about that whammy bro 🙁
I’ve been Chris for Fetchland, and as always, I’ll be the Judge!
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