Seraph of the Scales

Creature — Angel

Flying
{W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn.
{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Afterlife 2 (When this creature dies, create two 1/1 white and black Spirit creature tokens with flying.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Ravnica Allegiance Promos
Price
EDHREC rank
#14114
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Seraph of the Scales card art
Seraph of the Scales is a four-mana 4/3 flier with vigilance and deathtouch that leaves behind two 1/1 spirit tokens when it dies — relevant stats on a body that demands an answer and punishes removal with value. Pair it with Nim Deathmantle and a free sac outlet and the death trigger loops indefinitely, making it far more dangerous than its modest mana cost suggests.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the natural home for Seraph of the Scales — the combination of evasion, deathtouch, and a death trigger that generates two bodies slots cleanly into aristocrats, reanimator, and token-doubler shells alike. In competitive Modern and Pioneer, a four-mana 4/3 is simply too slow and too fragile to headline a strategy when cheaper threats dominate those formats. Legacy and Vintage have no interest either; the card does nothing fast enough to matter in those power environments. Oathbreaker can leverage it similarly to Commander, especially under a Orzhov or Esper signature spell that recurs it.

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Price Context

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Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Seraph of the Scales has never been a high-demand staple, so it typically sits in budget territory — worth picking up if you're building any Orzhov aristocrats list.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.