Serra Ascendant

Creature — Human Monk

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

As long as you have 30 or more life, Serra Ascendant gets +5/+5 and has flying.

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
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

indieinside on Odric, Lunarch Marshal

1 month ago

I would consider cutting back a few creatures to add in things like Path to Exile or Swords to Plowshares to deal with problems. Or things like Land Tax or Smothering TitheGC to help with speed.

Serra Ascendant is janky early game.

SaberTech on Ideas for an Ayli, Eternal …

2 months ago

I kind of see Ayli as more of a control oriented commander when compared to other potential WB aristocrats style commander options, although the need to gain life and have creatures to sac to her ability does cause a lot of overlap.

The first real hurdle is getting up to 50+ life. Running Ayli means that you opponents have even more reason to default to attacking you so that they can to keep you from using Ayli's removal ability. While being able to pick up life off of Blood Artist and extort type effects is useful, I think that it's worth finding ways to get big swings in life too. Tree of Perdition is one that comes to mind since it has 13 toughness for 4 mana right off the bat and you can increase its toughness even more if it stays on the board. Unhallowed Phalanx offers another high toughness for sac fodder. Serra Ascendant, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Exsanguinate are also ways to gain a bunch of life. Angelic Chorus, Proper Burial, Rhox Faithmender, and Cleric Class have potential as well. Heliod's Intervention could be worth running as a removal option.

There are a bunch of options for token production but I thought that I would mention God-Eternal Oketra combined with Kor Skyfisher, Whitemane Lion, and possibly Stonecloaker as well. Oketra has reasonably high toughness and comes back quick if sacrificed for life. 4/4 tokens are good for sacrificing if you need to. The white bounce creatures can be used for repeatedly triggering your extort effects and other cards like Angelic Chorus, Oketra's Monument, and Cathars' Crusade.

Prava of the Steel Legion is another token producer that can pump all your little tokens into high-toughness sac fodder to gain life.

StopShot on In your opinion: what was …

3 months ago

What came before the first Commander product.

The first Commander product, Commander 2011, came out after New Phyrexia, with the Scars of Mirrodin block being infamous for creating the keyword Infect which is an incredibly powerful keyword in the Commander format, but can be argued was not designed with Commander in mind because of how it was obviously meant for 20 life formats and has never shown up as a keyword in any base commander product since its debut.

What came after the first Commander product.

Just like how powerful infect could be, after Scars of Mirrodin came the Innistrad block which would create Commander staples still used today like Blasphemous Act, Craterhoof Behemoth and Laboratory Maniac, but could you argue WoTC pushed these cards for Commander players? I don't think what Commander staples printed in a set is an apt indicator of what influence Commander has on any given Standard set, after all Avacyn Restored released Griselbrand, a card WoTC would never have created in today's Standard sets given how much the Commander format plays a role in their current set design.

How the Griselbrand standard may answer this question.

I think a more appropriate metric is to apply what I would dub the Griselbrand standard when assessing Standard sets. The Griselbrand standard is cards or mechanics that would be fine in a 20 life 1v1 block constructed format but would obviously have no business ever being in a marketed product for a 40 life multiplayer format, with other examples of the Griselbrand standard being infect, Serra Ascendant, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, etc. Not every Standard set needs a Griselbrand-like card or mechanic to determine if the Commander format played a role in its set design. Instead, it should be asked, at what point did the Griselbrand standard die in MTG Standard set design to make way for the Commander format? I feel this is a more appropriate question to ask to determine when Commander started to take effect on Standard set design, and I'm curious to hear what set you think would best mark this transition into the Standard sets we see today.

KrazyKreg on Trostani Untap Mmm Hmm

6 months ago

Last March of the Ents Sunbond Seraphic Steed Dragonlord Dromoka Farmer Cotton Serra Ascendant Well of Lost Dreams The Gaffer Authority of the Consuls

Crow_Umbra on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

7 months ago

I'm excited to see where you go with this, especially as you flesh out your primer some more. Just a few ideas off the top:

• Vault of the Archangel - Helpful in a pinch if you have the mana for it, but I think has some extra value in this deck as a quick life gain anthem for your board.

• Serra Ascendant would be a great aggro threat for this deck, if not too on the nose lol.

• Lunar Convocation - Seems like it could be a decent value fit with everything your deck wants to do.

• The Gaffer could be a consistent draw piece

• Celestine, the Living Saint - More Betor redundancy.

• Witch of the Moors offers some removal and redundancy to Betor.

Flarhoon13 on Saskia keeps hitting

7 months ago

Well, finally won a multiplayer game Friday, thus completing my quest to win with each of my commander decks, which began May 3, 2024. Had an early Serra Ascendant. Taunt from the Rampart was the key card. Cast it while Auren had a 16/16 Mossborn Hydra and swung at him for about 9. He untapped and made his land drop before sending his goaded hydra for 32 at Will, who retaliated, dropping Auren to 6. Lauren admitted, he would have swung at me if the hydra wasn't goaded. I was able to get the kill shot on Auren--playing Koma, World-Eater. Mosswort Bridge found a Timeless Witness. I cast it to get back the Taunt from the Rampart. That let me take out Will, playing his new Volrath, the Shapestealer binder deck, and I had a couple tricks left to kill Jared, playing Naya humans, including a Githzerai Monk.

Flarhoon13 on Saskia keeps hitting

8 months ago

Fifth loss in a row with this deck was one where I could have won if I had seen the line. Instead, Saskia lost a very, very close one to Dave infecting me with a Phyrexian Swarmlord after a Putrefax put me to 5 poison counters. Saskia managed to kill The Ur-Dragon player, Harrison, who had won the previous game this evening with Kykar, Wind's Fury and an infinite Grapeshot. I put the wrong card under a Spinerock Knoll: Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* instead of an Utter End, which I could have used to remove a Phyrexian Swarmlord instead of dying to poison damage. Still, I could have won. I cast a Headliner Scarlett with two opponents. Either one had enough to kill me on the crack back. I cast a Tyranid Invasion pre-combat in order to get two 3/3 tokens, rather than one token post-combat. Either way, I didn't have enough blockers to survive. I drew with Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* and I'm not entirely sure what card it was but I died holding a game winning card in hand... Casting a Naya Charm to tap down David's board in his combat step instead of the Tyranid Invasion on my last turn would have let me survive and take out the remaining player. Taking out David instead of Jesse might have gotten me the win, too, since I had gained a ton of life via a turn 2 Serra Ascendant to possibly survive another massive Horde of Notions elemental army attack.

Jhi69 on A New Dawn for the Humankind 2.0

1 year ago

Thank you gildor28!

This Deck is always in the Work and I'm never okay with it ..^^ its strong on my Table, but as my Pet Deck it has to be the Best Version of itself.

I don't know but im leaning less into the Counter but more on the creature Tokens and casts. So I find Abzan Falconer not strong enough. Serra Ascendant is on my thought List. My actual Build is always on Moxfield: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/b_Ukx_J6_0KH7Id26nEMiA