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Weeping Angel

Weeping Angel

Mana Cost: {1}{U}{B}

Type: Artifact Creature — Alien Angel

Oracle Text:
Flash
First strike, vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this creature isn't a creature until end of turn.
If this creature would deal combat damage to a creature, prevent that damage and that creature's owner shuffles it into their library.

Power/Toughness: 2/2

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (6) →

Expansion: Doctor Who

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Character Background

Weeping Angel wears its Doctor Who–tinged theme mechanically: a flash artifact-creature that can appear out of nowhere and, with first strike and vigilance, punish blockers by never actually killing them but shuffling them back into the owner’s library whenever it would deal combat damage to a creature — a brutal tempo/control tool that denies graveyard recursion and punishes overcommitment. Best in a tempo/control shell, it lets you ambush attackers or chump-block and immediately remove a problematic creature from their graveyard loop instead of trading. Build tips: run it with blue flicker/bounce like Ghostly Flicker or Displace to reset it and reuse stealthy hits, and include a compact counterspell suite (Mana Leak/Counterspell) so opponents can’t simply cast creatures at instant speed to turn it into a noncreature mid-combat. It’s especially effective alongside cheap card draw and spot removal that clears paths for it to connect rather than trying to brute-force through swarm-based aggro decks.

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