Angel of Jubilation is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Flying Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1. Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.
Complete guide
Angel of Jubilation is a powerful white creature that serves as both a formidable anthem and a strict tax on your opponents. By preventing players from using life or creatures as resources, it can shut down entire deck strategies.
An Anthem for the Light
The Angel of Jubilation provides a static +1/+1 bonus to all other nonblack creatures you control. This effect is continuous and does not use the stack; as long as the Angel is on the battlefield, your eligible creatures are bolstered.
The Sacred Restriction
The most impactful part of this card is its ability to stop players from paying life or sacrificing creatures to cast spells or activate abilities. This applies to both you and your opponents. If a cost requires either of these actions, the game prevents that spell or ability from even being put onto the stack.
Resolving the Lock
Note that this ability only stops costs. If a spell or ability is already resolving and instructs you to sacrifice a creature (like a choice made during a resolution), Angel of Jubilation does not stop it. It specifically targets the moment of activation or casting where a player must 'pay' to proceed.
Understanding Creature Types
This restriction is inclusive of all types of creatures. For example, even if an ability asks you to 'Sacrifice an artifact,' you cannot choose an artifact creature to satisfy that cost while the Angel is present. However, you could still sacrifice a noncreature artifact.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumWhen you control Angel of Jubilation, your Solemn Simulacrum becomes a 3/3 creature instead of a 2/2. However, if you have a way to sacrifice a creature to an activated ability, you are forbidden from using the Golem as the cost, preventing you from manually triggering its 'dies' ability.
Roaming ThroneIf you play Roaming Throne and choose 'Angel', it will benefit from the +1/+1 anthem. While the Throne doubles triggered abilities of the chosen type, Angel of Jubilation's main effects are static abilities, not triggered ones, so the Throne will not double the anthem or the sacrifice restriction.
If an opponent tries to cast a spell that has 'As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature,' they simply cannot cast it. The game state prevents them from even attempting the action, effectively locking that card in their hand as long as the Angel remains on the battlefield.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Angel of Jubilation
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell or activated ability has a cost that requires a player to pay life (as Griselbrand’s activated ability does) or sacrifice a creature (as Fling does), that spell or ability can’t be cast or activated.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Other things may still cause players to pay life or sacrifice creatures, such as a resolving spell or ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Angel of Jubilation’s last ability doesn’t look for specific words on other cards. Rather, it stops players from taking specific actions. For example, you couldn’t activate an ability with an activation of cost of “Sacrifice an artifact:” by sacrificing an artifact creature (although you could sacrifice a noncreature artifact).
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Angel of Jubilation + Aether Storm
- 1Cast Aether Storm.
- 2Players can no longer cast creature spells, and Aether Storm can not be destroyed due to players being unable to pay life to activate its ability
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