Trynn & Silvar - Old Face Only "Pariah Control"

Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu)

3drinks

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Kjeldoran Outpost
• 2x Mountain
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Thran Quarry
• 1x Undiscovered Paradise
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (9)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (21)

• 1x Anarchist
• 1x Anger
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Cho-Manno, Revolutionary
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Fire Imp
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Ghitu Slinger
• 1x Keldon Firebombers
• 1x Keldon Vandals
• 1x Minion of Leshrac
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Monk Realist
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Nekrataal
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Plaguelord
• 1x Treasure Hunter

Artifact (12)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Baton of Morale
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Tawnos's Coffin

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Rout
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

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What's up, 3drinks™ here with another Mardu brew. I was a fan of Ruthless Regiment, though outside of dread return builds with Jirina Kudro, there really wasn't a lot of inspired directions to take the deck. So I'm changing that. Now, is anyone else out there like me that's suffering from new set fatigue? It's exhausting keeping up with WotC's newest power creep, and for what reason, so we can spend more $ on a non-sanctioned format where you play for $0? Baah.

So I set out to both feed my nostalgia, and brew a deck that doesn't have to change. And I went through a few hypothesis renditions - I tried rebel yell, I tried soldiers, clerics, and just human, but I didn't have enough payoffs to make it really stand out. Then I decided I'd just do a "goodstuff" deck as a greatest hits compilation. But I disliked the lack of overall synergy. Then I read Silvar again, whom this deck is secretly built around but with Trynn adding a colour and some backup and that's when it hit me - banding was the key ability! For the two of you reading that know what Banding is, you're nodding your head right? For those that don't, let me clue you in; banding is an old mechanic that lets you blatantly cheat at combat, in a nutshell. If you give Silvar Banding, he and another creature can now attack with impunity, block with impunity and, as I discovered soon after, he was a damage sponge. And what can we do with that? Hmm, if only there was a way we could shift all the damage we take onto a creature and become a veritable lich, unnaturally extending our own life in a way that keeps us omnipresent with everyone else at the table...

Oh wait, that does exist. Enter Pariah.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Human Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W