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Serra Paragon

Creature — Angel

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Dominaria United
Price
$5.27
EDHREC rank
#3768
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Serra Paragon card art
Serra Paragon is a four-mana 3/4 flier that turns your graveyard into a second hand — every permanent with mana value three or less that dies or gets exiled comes back as a one-shot free cast, then leaves behind a life payment on the way out. Charismatic Conqueror and Quintorius, History Chaser are the clearest proof of concept: white decks that churn through cheap permanents get a recursive engine stapled to a relevant body at a price most budgets can absorb.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

84.5% of decks · synergy 0.82

Quintorius, History Chaser triggers off cards leaving the graveyard, and Serra Paragon casts permanents from there on repeat — every low-cost permanent that cycles through the Paragon loop fires Quintorius's damage trigger. At 84% inclusion across Quintorius decks, it's close to a staple.

02
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

31.8% of decks · synergy 0.30

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine sacrifices Angels for mana and cards, so getting those Angels back is real value — Serra Paragon recovers cheap Angel pieces and keeps the sacrifice engine stocked. Nearly a third of Shilgengar decks run it.

03
Giada, Font of Hope

Giada, Font of Hope

28.9% of decks · synergy 0.23

Giada, Font of Hope runs a deep Angel count with several cheap ones, and Serra Paragon gives the deck resilience when removal clears the board. Recurring low-cost Angels through Giada's anthem means every recurred creature comes back larger.

04
Sigarda, Font of Blessings

Sigarda, Font of Blessings

15.8% of decks · synergy 0.15

Sigarda, Font of Blessings taxes interaction and tutors Angels and Humans, so Serra Paragon plugs in as recursion insurance inside a tribe that already wants white's best four-drops. It keeps the Angel chain intact when spot removal breaks it.

05
Sephara, Sky's Blade

Sephara, Sky's Blade

14.5% of decks · synergy 0.08

Sephara, Sky's Blade wants a full sky of fliers at all times, and Serra Paragon rebuy on a cheap flier means the three-tapper prerequisite stays live even after a board wipe. Keeping the air force intact is exactly what Sephara decks need to activate her cost reduction.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Serra Paragon earns its reputation — 99-card singleton means cheap permanents die constantly, and a card that converts every one of them into a free replay is structural value, not a lucky draw. In Modern and Pioneer, the four-mana cost competes against formats where the game can be decided before you untap with it, and white's graveyard recursion has cheaper, faster options at those power levels. Legacy is similar: the ceiling is real but the floor is unacceptable when Force of Will exists. Serra Paragon is at its best in slower, grindier games where a 3/4 flier that asks nothing more than "keep dying" turns inevitably into card advantage, and Commander is the format that best delivers that environment.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Sun Titan covers much of the same space — recurring permanents with mana value three or less — and regularly sits under $1, though it costs two more mana and lacks Serra Paragon's exile-from-graveyard flexibility. Brilliant Restoration and Rescue from the Underworld offer mass or targeted recursion at low prices, but neither staples that effect to a flying body you'd play anyway.

Price Context

Current price

$5.27 mid tier

At $5.27, Serra Paragon lands in the mid tier — more than a bulk pickup but well short of the $20+ ceiling that makes auto-includes painful. That price is defensible given the card does real work in any white Commander deck with a low curve, and recursive fliers at this cost tend to hold rather than crater.

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