"Divine Visitation: Play Small , Get Big."

"Divine Visitation: Play Small , Get Big."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Nothing says play with tokens as much this particular permanent. For 2 White Mana and 3 colorless you get an enchantment that states "If one or more creature tokens would be created under your control , that many 4/4 White Angel Creature token with flying and Vigilance are created instead."

All your lowly 0/1 or 1/1 tokens become 4/4 Angels! Having recently played with Avenger of Zendikar and created 10 0/1 plant tokens because of the number of lands I had I could only imagine how create Divine Visitation would be in my Trostani EDH deck.

Selesnya , Boros , Azorius and Orzhov decks will all have access to this enchantment. Saprolings , Goblins , Soldiers , Vampire and Spirits all turning into the meatier 4/4 Angels!

On a Mono White Tokenator deck you have can have Elspeth , Sun's Champion create 3 4/4 angels instead of 3 1/1 soldiers per turn! 

In my head I pictured Trostani ganining me a ton of life as all the tokens I have coming in become 4/4. Imagine Trostani , Darien and Divine Visitation in play. Opponents would think twice before they attack you since you are going to gain more life than you lost.

Let us say they attack you still. Something lethal like 40 points of damage.Make sure to prevent at least one of those damage. So let us say you get clobbered down to 1 point of your life. Darien triggers. Creating 39 1/1 Soldier tokens but since Divine Visitation is here you instead create 4/4 Angels! And with Trostani watching you get a net total of...156 life points! Not bad right?

The Midnight Guard + Presence of Gond combo becomes even stronger with this enchantment in play. You can overkill all of your opponents in your EDH multiplayer game and then expect the hate in the next round.

There is a downside to this card though. To take advantage of it you need to be playing with smaller tokens such as those produced by Secure the Wastes. If you play with bigger tokens like those created by Advent of the Wurm or Rhona's last stand , those big crits become smaller. 

So I guess it is time to play small to get bigger.