Angel of Serenity

Creature — Angel

Flying

When Angel of Serenity enters the battlefield, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.

When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Kjacobson6800 on Indestructible Angels

2 weeks ago

Cool build. There are some pretty dirty new Angels out. Id love to see what this looks like these days. Sephara, Sky's Blade Linvala, Keeper of Silence Angel of Serenity Resolute Archangel Grand Abolisher Mother of Runes Flawless Maneuver Teferi's Protection Orim's Chant Catastrophe Day of Judgment Enlightened TutorGC

Nunu312 on Blink Commander

7 months ago

When cutting cards, the question to ask isn't "is this card good enough", it's "will this card help me win the game".

Meteor Golem is good, but as you say, very expensive. 7 to destroy one permanent isn't worth it. Can you get the same effect for cheaper? Angel of Serenity is very similar in cost and effect, but can recurse parts of your combo as well as after blinking once or twice is almost total creature dominance. Similar with Runaway Boulder, it's expensive creature control, yes it works well with recursion, but if you can blink it enough to achieve dominance... you could be blinking something that will get you closer to victory instead.

Even Sun Titan, an incredibly powerful card... Doesn't actually help your deck win. It could get back Fiend Hunter or Wormfang Drake if they're dead, which is definitely good, but besides that, even if your combo is going the only way it could convert that to a win state is with Commander's Sphere or Mind Stone. Now... that may not be a sun titan problem, so much that it's that you aren't taking full potential of sun titan. If you swapped a land out for Flooded Strand, that combo is now Pay 1 Life: Put an Island or Plains (including non-basic land like Hallowed Fountain) into play. Cheating land into play is doubly good, because now your not going to draw that land. Fabled Passage is then the next best of the search land, but they all work with sun titan.

Biblioplex Assistant can get your spells back... but it's to the top of your library, so it's also chewing up a card draw. If you have unlimited access to the top of your library, you have probably already won and don't need those spells anymore.

Venser, Shaper Savant on the other hand... he's a reusable counter spell, only more versatile. He isn't going to be a key part of your combo, but when you're putting that last piece of the combo together... he's going to be there stopping anyone from interfering. On top of that he's board control when you need him and he's not even that expensive.

One thing that you're missing is cheap card draw. Wall of Omens being the standard. You can drop it early and it gets you one card closer to winning, and it's a blocker. There are a bunch of similar cards as well. More cards means you are closer to putting your combo together.

Interestingly, you can also drop anything that gives you unlimited hand size. It will never help you win the game, in fact, being able to discard something that might be recursable to the battlefield might help you. It's just not something you need to spend mana on.

Nunu312 on Blink Commander

7 months ago

Well, in that case there are some card suggestions!

Firstly, there is an esoteric combo involving Oblivion Ring effects that can happen. - Oblivion ring enters and it's effect goes on the stack - You bounce or temporarily exile oblivion ring - Oblivion rings leave the battlefield effect goes on the stack - The leave effect now resolves first, permanently exiling the original target when that resolves. As part of a combo you can use this exile all non-land cards of your opponents, though it will require a trigger doubler. Or you can just use it with any other instant blink for extra control.

Delney, Streetwise Lookout is another trigger doubler, though it has a limited pool of things it can target, though this may not be a problem for a lot of effects.

A lot of your combo's give you tremendous power in life and card draw, but don't lead to you immediately winning the game. Altar of the Brood can function as an alternate win condition for your combos.

Cosmic Intervention can not only set up your combo, but can also help you dodge board wipes.

Angel of Serenity is expensive, but can be devastating to your opponents boards as well as get creatures back from your graveyard.

Also, are you sure 23 Land is enough? People normally run 30-40 as it means over the first 3 turns they will on average get 3-4 land. If you feel that leaves you drawing too much land in the late game, that's what fetch land are for, as every time you use one you are removing an extra land from your deck. Also they work quite nicely with Sun Titan as he can return them and give you an extra land each turn.

NV_1980 on Angels We Have Heard On High [PRIMER]

11 months ago

Great tribal deck, orcopollo! I've got one myself and I love it. In terms of affordable Angels, I've been able to make some great use of cards like:

• Adarkar Valkyrie: excellent recursion utility; especially since she can attack (because of vigilance) AND use her recursion in the same turn.
• Admonition Angel/Angel of Serenity: great mid-game exile tools and powerful combatants as well.
• Angelic Arbiter: give your opponents a choice; spells or combat (but not both!).
• Platinum Angel: as long as it lives, games will end up in your favor (eventually).

Hope this helps; happy building (and playing)!

idfkgabe on She counter on my spell till I deck

1 year ago

This is a good deck, but I do have suggestions

1. For some removal I would take either take out 2 Pacifism and replace it with Sleep of the Dead or put in Oblivion Ring

2. Another thing is that Angel of Serenity costs specifically 4 white mana, I would try to find creatures who use the same ability ( such as Fiend Hunter) or a creature who is big enough to finish the game (Sphinx of Uthuun).

kirbysan on [Primer] Helming the Host of Heaven *Update*

1 year ago

am3ience : Doesn't look like Guerric has been on in over a year so his list is a little outdated. He also made some budget choices. Depending on the power level of your pod you may want to look at stronger support. I've been playing Giada semi-regularly since release and my list has evolved over time:

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/help-me-giada-youre-my-only-hope/

There a few notable angels in the year since this list:

Inspiring Overseer - while it released the same time as Giada, Guerric didn't include it. When you're going for a blink theme and Sword of Hearth and Home is out then you can essentially gain life and draw an extra card once per turn.

Guardian of Ghirapur - if you have any ETB effect angels then this one can help immensely. Or if you picked up Throne of Eldraine then you can reset it, leaving 4 white up on opponents turns which is typically the magic number for protection.

Metropolis Reformer - It's a cheap angel at 2W, has vigilance as a keyword, provides us hexproof from targeted spells and semi-lifegain from blocks or a Blasphemous Act

Firemane Commando - While it's a 4 drop it provides much needed draw off attacks which you should be doing every turn.

Roaming Throne - Not technically an angel but it doubles all the triggers. If you check my list I have categories of Angel Triggers. Anything with the keywords "At, When, or Whenever" will be doubled. Unfortunately it doesn't double Giada herself as that's a replacement effect but it can still get out of hand very quickly.

Wojek Investigator - Also a cheap angel at 2W with vigilance and usually a free clue every turn I'd consider it a strict upgrade over Angelic Sleuth. However, if you need more card draw support I'd personally pick Esper Sentinel, Archivist of Oghma or The One Ring.

I didn't add Aurelia's Vindicator or Merchant of Truth because their abilities don't justify the mana cost.

If you like Aurelia's Vindicator ability I'd recommend Angel of Serenity as the Disguise cost and ability is the same as Serenity but you don't have to jump through hoops of turning it face up. Also, you can target it with an Ephemerate or Teleportation Circle to get more than one usage out if it.

Noire_Samhain on Cheap cards for Kaalia

1 year ago

Since you mentioned you're pretty on a budget, most of these (at least according to my knowledge) are at or under a dollar.

For some cheap angels- Angel of Finality, Resplendent Marshal, Angel of the Ruins, and Angel of Serenity.

For some cheap dragons- Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Terror of Mount Velus, Piru, the Volatile, and Glorybringer.

For demons- Infernal Sovereign, Dreadfeast Demon, Overseer of the Damned, Nightmare Shepherd, Abhorrent Overlord, and Indulgent Tormentor.

jopzolder on Glorious combat with Brago!

1 year ago

I'm debating whether to pick Angel of Serenity or Sun Titan.

• The angel can straight up exile troublesome creatures, can attack with my other fliers and can even be used politically. It's recursion effect is less versatile and less powerful though.

• The titan can't fly and I don't have that many slots for flying beaters. His recovery targets artifacts and enchantments though. I have some highly impactful ones at cmc =< 3 that are bound to end up in my graveyard (such as Captivating Glance).

Any thoughts on which is better?

I'm also happy with any advice regarding beaters that could fit in the deck! I looked over all cmc 5+ UWC cards with power >= 4 on scryfall but later noticed I missed some nice ones like Dream Trawler. Spot any glaring oversights?