Herald of Serra
Creature — Angel
Flying, vigilance
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $2.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29762
Herald of Serra enters with vigilance and echo — a 3/3 flier that swings the turn it arrives and threatens to stick around if you can pay the echo cost. The echo clause is the real decision point: skip payment and you've rented a two-turn aerial blocker for four mana, pay it and you've got a permanent threat that trades up with most wings in the air.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Herald of Serra is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and effectively irrelevant in all of them. In Commander, a four-mana 3/3 flier with vigilance is playable floor, but the echo cost means you're either paying eight mana across two turns for a vanilla beater or losing the card for free — neither outcome competes with what white has access to at this cost. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all; those formats are over before echo resolves. Herald of Serra occasionally appears in dedicated echo or Serra-flavored Commander builds where the flavor or synergy with cost-reduction effects justifies the slot, but it's a niche inclusion, not a staple.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$2.15 cheap tier
At $2.15, Herald of Serra sits in the cheap tier but runs a little hot for what it delivers on the table. The price reflects collector demand for the Serra-universe aesthetic more than competitive utility — if you're sleeving it up, buy with your eyes open.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.