From The Vault: Angels - Summer 2015

I hope not. She's a great card (in both incarnations) but there are other angels I'd like to see reprinted and available as foils. Whatever is in this one I suspect I am likely to buy at least one of them

Found out a little more:

This is a list I've seen online, trying establish how accurate it is:

Akroma, Angel of Fury *
Akroma, Angel of Wrath *
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
Iona, Shield of Emeria *
Serra Angel !
Tariel, Reckoner of Souls

Apparently, starred names are alternate art, exclamation denotes art previously on oversized cards...

Well to be honest I'd consider it just for Iona and Avacyn - the two versions of Akroma would just be icing on the cake. However that line up does make it less likely to see Sigarda or Gisela in there. Maybe Aurelia, Sublime Archangel and perhaps Archangel of Thune / Baneslayer Angel if we are really lucky...

Either way - it's got to be considered as they probably won't hang around all that long.

It would and financially it makes sense. If you put Avacyn and Iona together you're looking in the region of £50-55 (accepting that these are new printings and not the original ones so will be a bit cheaper) so that leaves you about £25-30 for the rest of the box - so £4-£7 each for the rest. A.O.T would fit into that.

That's all shades of nasty.

I only have one and it's in my Gisela blade of Goldnight EDH deck - which is one of the only places where I can honestly say it's not the WORST thing you could see me casting with that mana...

It is actually quite good in the right place. It's a 3/4 with flying for 5 which doesn't seem all that good. But give it lifelink and you'd consider it reasonable - an upgrade on Serra Angel, kind of.

However, add it's ability into the bargain and you can forgive the 3/4 statline. If you build a deck around lifelink / lifegain then this card can be an absolute menace. Run it in any deck where you can stack lifegain triggers (Trostani is a nasty example) and you can end up with some very big creatures very quickly. In EDH it's a good card if you can keep it alive enough to impact the table. In Standard it was very nasty - as you've discovered. Modern? Not outside of rogue decks.

I love the card though and would happily stick it in almost any EDH deck that has white in it (almost)

Cool.

I'd like Baneslayer Angel to return to Standard - Hmm.. magic Origins has demons and Khans block has Dragons - is it too much to hope for BSA to return?

Not sure if 'Angel Heavy' would be quite the right term but Innistrad block would be the one that I'd naturally think of - mainly due to Avacyn, the Powerpuff Girls and the various things in there like Voice of the Provinces etc.

Either of the two Ravnica blocks would probably have had a few angels in it due to the Boros Legion.

Maybe - although DoT was very much a plot device which allowed for the clans to fit first into wedges and then into pairs throughout the set. An angel set would need to have similar functionality to allow for deck building. I'm not sure that we'd get such a set as Angels are firmly identified with white (in the same way that hydras are green, dragons / phoenix are red, demons / vampires are black etc etc.. it is a creature very commonly identified with W/X at best.

Which isn't to say that we wouldn't get a set like that - after all they did manage to do dragons successfully - but the idea of the different color combinations of dragon is perhaps easier than believing in a Golgari / Dimir angel 'tribe'. Not impossible but it might need a new plane to be introduced for it.