Sword-Swallowing Seraph
Creature — Angel Performer
Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, you may put a name sticker on a nonland permanent you own.
, 
: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature with a name sticker on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #28741
Sword-Swallowing Seraph enters with a stack of +1/+1 counters and redistributes them however you choose — that's a repeatable counter engine stapled to a flying body. The cost is real: three restrictions gate exactly where it's legal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Sword-Swallowing Seraph is banned in Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and isn't legal in any other 60-card or Oathbreaker context — Commander is the only sanctioned home it has. The three restrictions on the card (which limit how and when counters move) are real friction in a 1v1 context where tempo is everything, but in Commander's multiplayer, slower-moving games, that friction barely registers. A 100-card singleton format rewards value engines over raw speed, and Sword-Swallowing Seraph's ability to sculpt your board state across a long game is exactly the kind of effect Commander rewards.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Sword-Swallowing Seraph is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow legality don't tend to climb unless a specific Commander deck breaks them out, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the right shell, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.