Personal experience from a casual new player with this card is that it's an incredibly frustrating game ruiner. Myself and my group of friends that play have made it illegal. If its ability applied only to itself then I could see why it would be considered balanced but passing on to all creatures is just ridiculous.
0.5/5 for us
Posted By:
ellroyo
(6/6/2013 3:37:13 PM)
LoL, and Kaalia keeps getting Stupider and Stupider. I DO believe Wizards intends to make Kaalia's Deck playable entirely without Non-Creature Spells. Just Lands, and the occasional Artifact or Planeswalker. Maybe they will even make a "Black Lotus Demon" that serves as your "Mana Artifact" and get rid of Artifacts from her deck as well o.O xD Possibly not even Planeswalkers, though. xD Do not be surprised if you discover Gatherer has a Demon that can replace Liliana's Ultimate one of these days....o.O
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/24/2013 6:15:33 AM)
@Purplerooster
When you are playing against Infect!
Posted By:
DeliciousFish
(3/7/2013 6:29:27 AM)
Yep, it's a Gabriel Angelfire remake. GA was the worst Legend of the Legends set. This card is better by leaps and bounds. Still not sure I would use it.
Posted By:
Psychrates
(4/19/2013 4:06:39 PM)
Very tactical, allow you to choose an ability best suited for your situation, first strike against enemy defense, vigilance to remain balanced, or lifelink to regain your ground.
Posted By:
Cyberium
(1/23/2013 10:56:13 AM)
@lorendorky Add Cloudshift to that for extra fun. Figure out a way to repeatedly flicker Aurelia and it just gets mean.
Posted By:
RedJaron
(1/24/2013 7:07:58 AM)
Note that if you can pull off a second combat phase, you can give your creatures a second ability on top of the first.
Posted By:
RealmRPGer
(1/29/2013 12:40:29 PM)
@Darthparallax: Kaalia's colours mean she has access to most of the things you could ever need in EDH, so it's not really a surprise. In all fairness you might want to not rely on her ability to get creatures to give abilities to your other stuff since it's putting a lot of strain on the poor gal, and this girl's ability doesn't kick in straightaway either. An enchantment or other permanent could be more useful.
Anyways, it upsets me that this isn't a male angel, as a homage to Gabriel Angelfire like Roytaichou said. She does look like every other angel ever, they could've at least tried something with the art.
Stupidly good ability though. Wouldn't complain if I had one on the field!
Posted By:
psychichobo
(1/29/2013 1:17:51 PM)
Put this in your Alms Beast deck.. WAIT. Why do you have an Alms Beast Deck??! Haha.. Any whoo.. It's pretty decent if "option" is your thing.
Posted By:
Mike-C
(2/4/2013 5:18:54 AM)
Works well with Aurelia, the Warleader.
On your 1st combat phase, choose either lifelink or first strike, whatever is better in the situation. 2nd combat phase, choose vigilence so you creatures stay untapped. Next turn, on their combat phase choose first strike so your creatures don't die as much. Fun!
Posted By:
ekann123
(2/9/2013 12:39:51 PM)