WhiteLegendary Creature — Human Rebel WarlockRinoa, Angel Wing
Mana value3Rank#15,790
The Commander
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
Whenever one or more attacking creatures you control die, you may return one of them to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a flying counter on it. Do this only once each turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Build a mono-white aggressive go-wide flyers deck that swings turn after turn, using Rinoa to pump your fliers and keep them attacking thanks to vigilance. Her recursion ability turns combat deaths into value, recovering and re-flying your best attacker each turn, so you grind through removal and chump blocks while racing the table from the air.
Strengths
- Repeatable combat anchor that pumps all fliers and grants vigilance so you attack and defend at once
- Built-in resilience: brings back an attacker that dies each turn, blanking spot removal and trading favorably
- Mono-white means consistent mana and access to the best anthems, taxes, and protection in the color
- Flying creatures dodge most ground blockers, making damage hard to stop
Weaknesses
- Limited card advantage and ramp inherent to mono-white
- Vulnerable to board wipes that hit before combat (recursion only saves attackers that die in combat)
- No reach into other colors for counterspells, tutors, or graveyard hate
- Flyer-heavy boards fold to mass flyer removal or a single big flying blocker
Key Cards
- Serra Avatar — A huge evasive lifelinker that becomes monstrous with Rinoa's pump and recurs if it dies attacking.
- Archetype of Courage — Grants your fliers first strike, turning Rinoa's combat pump into one-sided combats.
- Smothering Tithe — Mono-white's premier ramp engine, fixing the deck's mana and card-quality problems.
- Sephara, Sky's Blade — Anthem and indestructible-granting flying payoff that protects your whole air force.
- Spear of Heliod — Anthem plus a deterrent that punishes attackers, complementing your vigilant defenders.
- Swords to Plowshares — Premium cheap removal to clear the one big blocker stopping your alpha strike.
Upgrade Path
Add the best mono-white ramp and card draw (Smothering Tithe, Land Tax, Mangara/Welcoming Vampire-style draw) to fix the color's grind problem, and lean into anthems plus evasion enablers. Include protection like Teferi's Protection, Flawless Maneuver, and Heroic Intervention's white analog (Akroma's Will) to dodge wipes, and tighten the curve with efficient one-and-two-drop fliers so Rinoa's combat pump comes online early and often.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Repeated alpha strikes with a buffed, evasive flying army
- ▸A single voltron flier carrying anthems and equipment for commander damage
- ▸Token swarm overwhelming the table through the air with anthem stacking
- ▸Lifelink fliers like Serra Avatar racing while stabilizing your life total
Archetypes
- Flyers Aggro — Rinoa pumps and grants vigilance to your whole flying team every combat, snowballing evasive damage.
- Go-Wide Tokens — White token makers plus anthems flood the air, and Rinoa's buff makes each flier hit harder.
- Aristocrats — Her death-trigger recursion synergizes with sacrifice payoffs and combat death value.
- Voltron — Pile auras and equipment on a flier; vigilance lets it attack and block while recursion keeps it alive.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (W), by popularity.
