MTG Salvation

Cool, really digging the modality of this card: 4/3 fatty, or two 1/1's with and anthem on a stick. Really wish it had some flavor text though.

Its a Serra Angel with flexibility, Lifelink, and Crusade. Obviously good, yet somehow feels underwhelming.

Magic is weird nowadays.

better than a *****ty mythic, this one is at least playable, the kind of card you would find in a core set, i like it

Not bad with the counters on it, though it falls within range of a lot of kill spells. Flying, vigilance, and lifelink make it useful, though. For instance, in my Angels deck, it would get some bonuses from Angel of Jubilation, or have some help from Archangel of Tithes. Unfortunately, it would have to compete with Baneslayer or Serra Angel for a 5CMC spot, and I'm just not sure it could be worth it.

In Standard, I guess it depends on how prevalent burn spells are going to be.

Hmm... Certainly a skilltesting card, but I don't know if it is a skill rewarding one yet. I'm leaning towards no, especially since it was spoiled right after a card that can answer both modes at once. When you compare this card to something like Wingmate Roc (a card that fell out of favor after a while in standard) it seems pretty unworthy. The 4/3 body is an unimpressive mode. But the art is fun with the four sword thing.

Let's see...

4/3 with flying, vigilance, and lifelink for 5 with Anthem tacked on? Pretty damn good.

OR

2/1 with flying, vigilance, and lifelink plus two 1/1s and the Anthem for 5? Also pretty damn good.

I am loving this set so far. Flexibility and versatility are my jam, and so many of these cards have different "modes" that let them be useful in several situations or even decks.

This card really makes me wish you could divvy up the fabricate trigger. She would be solid as a 3/2 with a 2/2 on the ground

That is...that is something entirely different. While I am utterly sick of the current "all creatures all the time" mentality of Magic design, I do like seeing interesting ideas such as this.

Curves in right after Odric, Lunarch Marshal as well.

Maaaaaan. In a fast-paced RW aggro deck, that could pretty much be the finisher. As long as one of your creatures has haste, every one of them would gain haste, lifelink, flying, and vigilance. That is such huge pressure that if it's not answered before combat, that's gonna be about game over.

I am not sure what everyone is seeing in this card...I think it is absolutely terrible. If you make the tokens then your vigilance lifelink anthem is ridiculously vulnerable. The vigilance and lifelink are nearly useless in this case. If you don't make the tokens it is basically just a worse gisela which already barely sees play. Unless you are going all out on tokens then always watching is basically just better.

It's a shame, the art is great.

It's a shame, Fabricate 3 would've put this over the top I think. As-is she's too vulnerable for the investment.

Maybe, but even at 5/4 it loses to or trades with most other 4 or 5-drops in the format.

Honestly I would've liked it a lot more at 1/2 or 1/3 base.

As-is, +1 Liliana, The Last Hope means that 3WW might've bought you a couple vanilla 1/1s.

That said, I think Saheeli Rai's -2 could make this card interesting.

So either a 5/4 with flying, vigilance, lifelink, and anthem, or a 2/1 flying vigilant lifelinker and three 2/2s, for only 5 mana?
That's a bit imbalanced tbh.
This is a very well-balanced card, even if it can be answered. It forces your opponent to burn their removal, and if they can't the advantage you gain is HUGE.

Agree with all above. Only thing i can add is at least shes not legendary. But shes def not that impresive

This card is best friends with Master Trinketeer, Aetherstorm Roc and Decoction Module.