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Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Legendary Artifact Creature — Human · {1}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander
Deathtouch
Whenever Silas Renn deals combat damage to a player, choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What Silas Renn, Seeker Adept actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever Silas Renn deals combat damage to a player, choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn.
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
- Keyword · partnerpartner
What a Silas Renn, Seeker Adept deck needs
Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifacts in the graveyard (each hit recasts one)
- its partner
The Silas Renn, Seeker Adept deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 10× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Rogue Class2 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Infiltrator's Magemark3 mana
- Ninja Teen3 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Port of Karfell0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Time Sieve + Myr Battlesphere647 decks
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring + Krark-Clan Ironworks307 decks
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Dargo, The Shipwrecker + Ruthless Technomancer + Phantasmal Image72 decks
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring + Arcbound Ravager71 decks
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Time Sieve + Guild Artisan27 decks
- Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring + Phyrexia's Core23 decks