Gallery and List of Earthbend Cards Aang, at the Crossroads / Aang, Destined Savior Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender Badgermole Badgermole Cub Ba Sing Se Beifong's Bounty Hunters Bitter Work Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender Bumi, King of Three Trials Bumi's Feast Lecture Bumi, Unleashed Cracked Earth Technique Dai Li Agents Dai Li Indoctrination Earthbender Ascension Earthbending Lesson Earthbending Student Earthen Ally Earth Kingdom General Earth Rumble Earthshape Earth Village Ruffians Fatal Fissure Haru, Hidden Talent Rebellious Captives Rockalanche Sandbenders' Storm Solid Ground The Boulder, Ready to Rumble The Cave of Two Lovers The Legend of Kyoshi / Avatar Kyoshi Toph, Earthbending Master Toph, Greatest Earthbender Toph, Hardheaded Teacher Toph, the Blind Bandit Toph, the First Metalbender Best Earthbend Cards These are the best cards with the earthbend mechanic, or the cards that are most likely to see Constructed play
The Angel is very strong in that oeuvre of defending, and like the Mother of Runes tapping, it cannot be blocked save by colorless and flying stuff and it's bigger there too, so it's a game winner connected to a defensive all-star ability
Additionally, I think this card can consolidate sideboard slots for the Tron matchup, as this card will go a long way to disrupting Tron by turning off their Expedition Maps, Chromatic Stars / Spheres, Oblivion Stones, and Walking Ballistas, which in turn takes a ton of pressure off Meddling Mage to name cards like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and Wurmcoil Engine
Its easy for a niche card to be strong within its niche - and sometimes a card like that is simply so strong that it takes a deck from being a fun idea into a crushing way to play Commander - but its far rarer for a card to work in decks that its not intended for
