Serra the Benevolent
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Serra
- Loyalty
- 4
- Set
- MagicFest 2025 #1 (mythic)
+2: Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.
−3: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.
−6: You get an emblem with "If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead."
Serra the Benevolent has 5 printings, first in Modern Horizons (2019). EDHREC ranks it #5,714 among Commander cards. It appears most in Giada, Font of Hope decks (11,459 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Serra the Benevolent most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Giada, Font of Hope: 11,459 decks
- Sigarda, Font of Blessings: 956 decks
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope: 732 decks
- Sephara, Sky's Blade: 545 decks
- Aurelia, the Warleader: 489 decks
- Lyra Dawnbringer: 441 decks
- Momo, Friendly Flier: 370 decks
- Errant and Giada: 338 decks
Often played with Serra the Benevolent
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you have less than 1 life and somehow haven't lost the game, damage dealt to you reduces your life total further below 0 (as normal).
- : In the Commander variant, combat damage you're dealt by a commander is still tracked, even if it doesn't change your life total.
- : Serra's emblem doesn't stop loss of life from effects that say that you lose life.
- : Serra's emblem doesn't prevent damage. It only changes the result of damage dealt to you. For example, a creature with lifelink that deals damage to you will still cause its controller to gain life, even if that damage would reduce your life total to less than 1.
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage dealt to you and/or your teammate that would reduce your team's life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead, as long as you control a creature. It doesn't matter whether your teammate controls a creature, even if they're the player being dealt damage
- : Serra's first ability affects only creatures you control with flying at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn or that gain flying later in the turn won't get +1/+1.