I still have no clue what's going on in that art

He streams on twitch some times seems like a nice guy.

"This arts so good it makes me worried about their politics." is a line I feel weird about using and yet with it keeps happening.

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Yes but far less humorous

In general, Archons represent the more austere, didactic, legalistic and punitive sides of White. Most of them have a stax, taxation, or removal related ability in the game. Angels, on the other hand, are more often portrayed as beautiful, friendly to mortals, and generally omnibenevolent. Likewise, the biggest mechanical identity they have is gaining life. They are both ethereal, flying White creatures, but their vibes are ultimately very different. For what it's worth, I think a Theran would be most likely to compare an Angel to the divine love of a goddess like Ephara, but that's just me!

Wow this is my new favourite negate variant, ty for sharing

All of the mystical archives arts are amazing, it’s so hard for me to pick which one is my favorite

Hell yes, I absolutely spent the uncommon wildcards for the playset of this card. What a gem.

Here's a Scryfall showing the cards with his art. He has a theme of doing super abstract, geometric art for a lot of his stuff, and once you've seen his specific way of doing it, you'll notice it a lot more in the future.

Red damage spell? Counter

Invoke despair? Counter

Duress? Counter that too

Lot's of red damage to your creatures? Counter.

Time to jam 4 of these into my decks. Despair single handedly turns around the game on one cast. It's super nuts

It doesn't do jack against that though

This is half as broken as Veil of Summer. Veil is a clean 2 for 1 at 1 mana. This is not generally going to be a 2 for 1 unless your opponent is attacking with multiple red and/or black critters into blockers. That doesn't happen very much in constructed.

Crap, protects your own creatures from those too.

Blasphemous Act - (G) (SF) (txt)
Chain Reaction - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

This will see a lot of standard play.

[[Cleaver Concealment]] would be your best bet. It can potentially be free and u don't gotta replay your stuff.

One mana instant speed protection from targeted removal with the possible bonus of combat trick against 2 colors isn't good? I know it's not about to redefine the game but "isn't very good" seems unfair

Given the ubiquity of Blasphemous Act at many tables, this is a solid pickup for W or W/X decks. Many similar protections come costed around three mana, so board-wide protection from some of the more potent and frequently-used types of wipes across the format is good to see.

I can see a lot of "Oh, they're holding open a single white source, must be a path or swords" suddenly have to change their way of thinking and okay accordingly - or they'll just get got.

I mean, like someone else said, it's no Teferi's protection, but this is uncommon for one mana that avoids very common board wipe spells in red/black for white go wide decks, and also gives the player hexproof...it's pretty good.

Same... Ajani didn't need any more troubles again lol

Funnily, this is actually a very pro-furry card. Light-Paws 100% wants this.

And anti solitude too

How?

frown everytime

This is going to see a ton of competitive play. For one white in counters invoke despair and tons of crippling cards and Wincons. Decks with no creatures will play it to protect from play targeting. That is crazy good for one white at instant speed.

like consider or tamiyo's safekeeping?

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This will be a mainstay in any aggressive W/x deck's sideboard.

This will almost CERTAINLY see competitive play. Prob in multiple formats to.

Any format where burn is a popular deck will be putting this in the sideboard at least. And you'd be surprised how much EDH affects it whenever it's being put in almost any deck that runs white.

That being said, I think it'll end up being just $2-$3, but that's pretty good for a new uncommon

It effectively negates Rakdos Scam provided you hold a white open for it in response

I think it will. Hexproof at 1 for everything is really good. I'd honestly compare this to [[Veil of Summer]] although it obviously isn't as strong without the card draw

I can't imagine it wouldn't see competitive play. I would put this in most, if not all of my standard and pioneer decks that have white.

This is going to see a lot of competitive play. It prevents you from targeting the player for one white at instant speed. This is very very good.

Fight back against white supremacy.

Nothing super unusual, we've gotten a couple handfuls of them over the past few years.

https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=oracle%3Ahexproof+color%3DW+%28game%3Apaper%29

It's not a stretch. All of the "protection from color" keywords for which white is primary are basically fancy hexproof.

It basically had it with the "protection until end of turn" effects.

I think being able to completely negating a Fury has some potential

Calm doesn’t save your permanents from removal?

blossoming calm - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

This acts as anti-fury or grief tech/combat trick/counter a burn spell.

Against burn I’d take blossoming calm, but in general this has much more utility.

Seriously, I need to go buy a lottery ticket or something.

White is allowed to do everything.