Serra the Benevolent

The reimagining of one of the game's oldest icons: Serra Angel was the flying vigilance body that set the template for what a fair white finisher looked like, and this planeswalker folds that creature into a loyalty ability while wrapping a flying payoff and a life-total safety valve around it. The design coheres because all three abilities point the same direction. The plus-two rewards a committed board of fliers, the minus-three rebuilds one with a 4/4 flier that echoes the original Angel's shape, and the ultimate protects a pilot who has already staked their game on the air. Serra is built to sit atop a curve of evasive threats rather than to generate value on her own, which is why she reads narrow beside the generically powerful planeswalkers of her era. The emblem is the quiet standout: a permanent, non-splashy effect in the Platinum Angel tradition that pins you at one life for as long as any creature survives, closing the door on burn and combat arithmetic without asking for further investment. Serra herself is one of the game's foundational figures, and this printing finally puts her name on the mechanical identity she has always stood for, angels and the shielding of the vulnerable, without leaning on a single flashy number to sell it.