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Serra the Benevolent

White

4 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Serra the Benevolent, MagicFest 2025 printing
MagicFest 2025 PF25 · No. 1 2025-02-03

Card text

{2}{W}{W}
Legendary Planeswalker — Serra
+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."
Loyalty: 4
EDHREC rank #5717 Mythic Not on the Reserved List
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The 4 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ∅ Not legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

6 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

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).

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

In the Commander variant, combat damage you're dealt by a commander is still tracked, even if it doesn't change your life total.

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

Serra's emblem doesn't stop loss of life from effects that say that you lose life.

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2019-06-14 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Serra the Benevolent, MagicFest 2025 printing
MagicFest 2025
PF25 · #1
Mythic
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Wizard's Tower · Condition LP · Foil
Serra the Benevolent, Modern Horizons printing
Modern Horizons
MH1 · #26
Mythic
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Boutique MagiCarte · Condition LP