Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1209 · Mythic · Legendary Creature — Angel // Legendary Creature — Angel
Mana cost: {3}{W}{W}
Flash
Flying, vigilance
When Archangel Avacyn enters, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
When a non-Angel creature you control dies, transform Archangel Avacyn at the beginning of the next upkeep.
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Flying
When this creature transforms into Avacyn, the Purifier, it deals 3 damage to each other creature and each opponent.
Power/toughness 4/4 · Illustrated by Nana Qi & GodMachine · Released May 8, 2023
Prices
- Nonfoil: $7.03 USD · €2.65 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.48 USD (6.4%) to $7.03 USD; low $7.03 USD, high $7.51 USD.
Printings
- Innistrad Remastered #11 (INR) · Mythic · 2025 · $3.41 USD
- Innistrad Remastered #449 (INR) · Mythic · 2025 · $1.96 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1156 (SLD) · Mythic · 2023 · $22.64 USD foil
- Secret Lair Drop #1209 (this printing) · Mythic · 2023 · $7.03 USD
- Shadows over Innistrad Remastered #13 (SIR) · Mythic · 2023
- From the Vault: Transform #1 (V17) · Mythic · 2017 · $5.69 USD foil
- Shadows over Innistrad Promos #5s (PSOI) · Mythic · 2016 · $8.47 USD foil
- Shadows over Innistrad #5 (SOI) · Mythic · 2016 · $3.27 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — Archangel Avacyn's delayed triggered ability won't cause it to transform back into Archangel Avacyn if it has already transformed into Avacyn, the Purifier, perhaps because several creatures died in one turn.
- 2016-04-08 · wotc — Archangel Avacyn's delayed triggered ability triggers at the beginning of the next upkeep regardless of whose turn it is.
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