Serra Bestiary
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this Aura unless you pay 
.
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities with 
in their costs can't be activated.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #30483
Serra Bestiary locks down a creature completely — no attacking, no blocking, no activated abilities — as long as you keep paying two mana each upkeep. That ongoing tax is the whole problem: opponents see it coming, and any mana pressure or enchantment removal ends the lock immediately.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Serra Bestiary is outclassed by every comparable option — Imprisoned in the Moon, Song of the Dryads, and Darksteel Mutation all answer a threat permanently without a recurring cost. Legacy and Vintage have access to the same superior enchantments and move too fast for a two-mana-per-upkeep lock to matter. Pauper is the one format where Serra Bestiary could theoretically see play, since the card pool for repeatable creature removal at common is thinner, but even there the upkeep cost makes it fragile against any aggro clock.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Serra Bestiary is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Don't expect that to change; there's no competitive demand pulling the price up, and reprints are irrelevant at this price floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.