{"id":6386,"date":"2017-01-19T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2017-01-21T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T22:40:04","slug":"all-about-exquisite-archangel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/01\/all-about-exquisite-archangel\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Exquisite Archangel"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Today we\u2019ll be talking about Exquisite Archangel<\/a>, a creature with a rather unusual ability; it doesn\u2019t do anything until you\u2019re about to lose the game! Of course, the effect is a powerful one indeed, which replaces losing with going back to your starting life total, one which essentially undoes all your opponent\u2019s hard work if they were trying to win by damage. It doesn\u2019t even matter if the Angel would die at the same time (you\u2019ll still regain life, and then you\u2019ll decide whether to send the Angel to exile or your graveyard). However, as we learned on Monday, there are other ways to win (and lose) the game; let\u2019s take a look at a few of them today.<\/p>\n

Exquisite Archangel vs. decking out: If you would attempt to draw a card while there aren\u2019t enough cards left in your library, the Angel will prevent you from losing and exile itself, but you still won\u2019t have any cards left in your library. You\u2019ll probably have one turn to win the game, so use it wisely!<\/p>\n

Exquisite Archangel vs. Triskaidekaphobia<\/a>: If you\u2019re at 13 life when either ability resolves, the Angel will prevent you from losing, exile itself, and put you back up to your starting life total (hopefully giving you a buffer before you go back to 13 life), but the ability will continue resolving, and you\u2019ll gain or lose 1 life as appropriate. If both players have 13 life, however, good news for you–the game would normally be a draw, but the Angel replaces you losing with not-losing, while your opponent loses. Therefore, you win!<\/p>\n

Exquisite Archangel vs. Mechanized Production<\/a>: Unfortunately, the Angel won\u2019t have any effect here, as \u201cwin the game\u201d effects are separate from game rules and effects that say you \u201close the game.\u201d The only exception is in multiplayer games, where \u201cwin the game\u201d instead means \u201call your opponents lose the game\u201d; therefore, you will be protected by the Angel, but your other opponents will still lose, probably reducing the game to a 1v1.<\/p>\n

Exquisite Archangel and Platinum Angel<\/a>: It\u2019s highly unlikely, but possible you\u2019ll be able to pull this one off in Limited! If you do manage to get them both in your sealed or draft pool, and both onto the battlefield at the same time, once again the Archangel won\u2019t have any effect. Platinum Angel straight-up prevents you from losing, so the Archangel won\u2019t have anything to replace.<\/p>\n

Exquisite Archangel in Two-Headed Giant: You and your teammate win and lose as a team, so anything that would cause your teammate to lose will also be replaced by the Archangel. For purposes of effects that care about lifegain (or loss, if your life total was somehow higher), though, only you will gain the life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we\u2019ll be talking about , a creature with a rather unusual ability; it doesn\u2019t do anything until you\u2019re about to lose the game! Of course, the effect is a powerful one indeed, which replaces losing with going back to your starting life total, one which essentially undoes all your opponent\u2019s hard work if they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,32,33,5,17],"tags":[1357,156],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-state-basedactions","category-staticabilities","tag-exquisite-archangel","tag-platinum-angel","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}