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Silvar, Devourer of the Free

Silvar, Devourer of the Free

Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Partner with Trynn, Champion of Freedom (When this creature enters, target player may put Trynn into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Menace Sacrifice a Human: Put a +1/+1 counter on Silvar. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
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What Silvar, Devourer of the Free actually does

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What a Silvar, Devourer of the Free deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Silvar, Devourer of the Free deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Silvar, Devourer of the Free

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Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  3. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  4. Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
  5. Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
  6. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  7. Vivi's Persistence2 mana
  8. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  2. Scheming Aspirant2 mana
  3. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  4. Glistening Sphere3 mana
  5. Walking Ballista0 mana
  6. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  7. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  8. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Silvar, Devourer of the Free

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Silvar, Devourer of the Free is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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