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
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)

Flarhoon13 on Saskia keeps hitting

1 week 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

1 month 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

5 months 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

gildor28 on A New Dawn for the Humankind 2.0

5 months ago

I run a similar decklist but a bit heavier on counters but I would still recommend Abzan Falconer if you haven't tried him, he's always one of the cards that allows me to win my games. It seems you like all of your creatures to have a ETB or strong effect, but Serra Ascendant feels strong too

capwner on I wanna be the evil …

6 months ago

White is the true evilest color

Drannith Magistrate Serra Ascendant Grand Abolisher Archon of Emeria Silence Smothering Tithe Farewell Rest in Peace Cataclysm *list* Humility

Red does have a lot more raw combo potential esp. when paired with black/blue. But once you start building like that you're getting into cEDH territory. All depends on the sort of deck you want to build. If you want to keep the flavor of your mono black i.e. reanimate-y combo-y sacrifice-y, with the insidious ability to tutor and win out of nowhere, I'd say Golgari or Rakdos are probably the best colors you could expand into. In general 1 or 2-color will have waaaaayyy more options in terms of specific commander synergies, as well as more powerful effects from your commander in general. (whereas more colors give you more flexibility and power ceiling, from using a wider card pool, but I think this can often make decks feel more generic). Green compliments black really well with its resilient ramp, creature+land tutors to assemble combos, and more flexible removal. While Rakdos decks are often insanely aggressive and stompy, with some of the scariest reanimation targets. Though you can also build them to be more focused on attrition, board control, and prison effects. On the other hand if you wanted to be more controlling and oppressive, you'd probably want to be Dimir, Esper, or Grixis--or WURB which I believe is the most popular cEDH color combo. Hope that helps and good luck building!

Caran_Lyg on Angel lifegain feast festival

11 months ago

I like your deck but cards that reduce your creatures cost are too slow. I see you got Serra Ascendant on your maybeboard, in my opionion that card is a better choice than Starnheim Aspirant even though it might take up to 3 turns before you get it big. I use to have Speaker of the Heavens on my deck. A lot of the times it’s going to be a brick in your hand unless you get 7 life quickly before the opponent immediately starts killing you. You’re better off with more life generators like Soul's Attendant which also gains you life if Righteous Valkyrie is in your board first and then gives you life every time a creature on both sides enter the battlefield. Another one too is Diamond Mare since you’re also mono-white.

Azoth2099 on Oloro, Where Art Thou?

1 year ago

EscapingBurger

Great Commander choice, dude, greatly underrated nowadays imho.

I'll get right to it. Considering that they also translate into card draw, I'd have to recommend an abundance of low-cost Lifegain effects. Archivist of Oghma, Serra Ascendant, Soul's Attendant, Soul Warden, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, Leonin Elder, Profane Memento, Spectrum Sentinel, Authority of the Consuls & Blind Obedience will trigger often. Zuran Orb allows you to just straight up turn your excess Lands into card advantage mid-late game, provided you tap them for mana before you sacrifice them. Not bad for a 0-drop.

Some higher costed stuff like Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Queza, Augur of Agonies, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Life Insurance, Shabraz, the Skyshark & Sunscorch Regent will all draw you a bunch of cards.

As far as winning goes, there are a few combos that work intrinsically with what the deck is already trying to do. I see you're running Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood as one of your WinCons, so you're off to a good start. Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista fits here, as does Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top. All of these combos can be easily Tutored within Esper, with the only dead card being Walking Ballista. "Dead" meaning it's useless on it's own, not that it's hard to Tutor.

Speaking of Aetherflux Reservoir & Bolas's Citadel, using your Life as a resource is obviously a good strategy here since you'll be gaining so much of it no matter how you build this one. Greed, Unfulfilled Desires, Phyrexian Processor, Phyrexian Reclamation & Defiler of Faith are good examples. Necropotence & Ad Nauseam obviously exists as well. You could also run stuff like Razaketh, the Foulblooded & Vilis, Broker of Blood, but that would require a Reanimator strategy...

Other than that I'd probably add some more Tutors & Ramp for your combos, & more protection for Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.

Cheers!

ChaseyK on

1 year ago

wallisface Thanks for the tips. I suppose this really should've been labeled as Casual rather than Modern.

Regardless of the label, you're right that the curve is too high. I think I can cut the Debtors' Knells, Deathbringer Lieges and the Honden, and swap them out with some combination of Children of Korlis, Soul Warden and Serra Ascendant. All would work well with the Sanguine Bond.

Maybe Edge of the Divinity too to get a similar effect of the Deathbringer Liege for much cheaper.