Wow, this is my all-time favorite card. When I first started playing this card seemed liked the best there ever was! Vigilance seemed like such a broken ability since you could attack and block, plus Serra Angel is a hefty 4/4. 5 out of 5 for pure awesomeness and respect.
Posted By:
BobbertZhubert
(1/16/2013 4:22:36 AM)
Classic. A perfect card. No room for improvement. Any more power and she becomes obscene, any less and she's just an Air Elemental.
Posted By:
The_Erudite_Idiot
(1/18/2013 11:18:44 AM)
"Though she may be gone, our faith, like her Angel, is eternal."
Posted By:
WateryMind
(3/10/2013 3:39:25 PM)
Serra Angel has run in every deck I've ever had, and she's always been useful.
Posted By:
GhostCounselor
(3/13/2013 12:49:36 PM)
@Erudite_Idiot- Oh now come now :3 Perfect? No. Power-creep is a thing. Has always been ever since around 5th Edition, by which time we'd really cycled out most of the overpowered "Legends" and Beta cards.
I do appreciate the fair Serra as my favorite Angel Design (and incidentally, I think Akroma herself was probably inspired in R&D mechanically as following through on 'making the Most Powerful Serra Angel imaginable), but please....was Shepherd of the Lost really so terrible?
I think it was just...really too harsh, too soon, too brusk, having Baneslayer be (if I remember correctly), our *FIRST* Mythic Angel besides the Duel Deck reprinted Akroma? And Baneslayer obsoleted Akroma and Serra and had the audacity to appear in the Core Set following Serra Angel's Last Two Appearances as a Rare, and then Serra was in THE SAME Core as Baneslayer...as an Uncommon. That was quite a lot of Demotion at once :O It was a disgrace to the poor girl that w... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/27/2013 10:11:09 PM)
The lady is back in her domain, kicking ass and taking names.
Vigilance is a highly overrated ability until it's stapled to something with an evasion ability and a fairly respectable power and toughness. Then you start to hate that wing-ed beauty sitting there able to attack you every turn AND block during your turn. Well unless she's on your side.
Posted By:
yyukichigai
(5/6/2013 3:46:29 AM)
Such a great card yet so underrated these days.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(5/15/2013 6:16:58 PM)
And it's declared that she's getting printed in M14.
I think Wizards understands that she is one of the most sought-after cards in limited for obvious reasons:
1. In limited, where choosing a strategy is hard to achieve, you need creatures to win. Creatures are the lifeblood of any good limited deck.
2. Flyers provide you with two kinds of defense and evasion. They're both offensive and defensive, depending on how you want to play the game.
3. Vigilance is exceptionally useful since it can allow your toughest creatures a chance to attack when you're low on life and need a blocker.
4. 4 toughness is the magic number for toughness. Most creatures in limited have power equal to or less than 3. To prove my point, there are 114 creatures in M13. 91 of them have power <= 3. This means that Angel can block most of those creatures without dying.
5. 5 mana is not that difficult to pay for in limited. Unlike Standard/Modern/Legacy, players tend to start attacking and dealing damage by turn 3-5... (see all)
Posted By:
Ferlord
(6/4/2013 10:09:27 AM)
@Ferlord I mean I'd say Vampire Nighthawk is probably a little better because it's 3 mana and races just as good as serra angel which costs 5. But in limited, this is where you want your finishers to be at and not nighthawk. Nighthawk feels like a limited value creature to me because you gain life putting you ahead in the race and it can trade up with any creature on the battlefield so it never just chumps if you are behind. With this, you are far less likely to trade up early due to the higher toughness and it finishes your opponent twice as quickly and therefore more effectively because your opponents have less time to draw into removal. If I had both in the same pack I'd probably take the angel and force white. I've seen some white goodies be passed out pretty late in m13.
Posted By:
Ligerman30
(6/19/2013 12:07:35 PM)
Follow Bruce Lee. In it's absence, follow h-Chuck Norris
Posted By:
Epicelves
(6/21/2013 10:36:44 PM)