Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human

Deathtouch

Whenever Silas Renn, Seeker Adept 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.)

Discussion (49)

TypicalTimmy on How to make new 2-color …

8 months ago

I never understood the purpose of Piper. Let's say I drafted a total of seven Commanders with Partner, not including Piper. Then, let's add Piper in as an 8th draft. And I'm going to literally pick seven at random. HERE WE GOOOO

• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• Esior, Wardwing Familiar
• Tana, the Bloodsower
• Alena, Kessig Trapper
• Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
• Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor
• Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
• The Prismatic Piper

In this case, I didn't draft a single Commander, so if I desperately wanted to play , I could run Piper, I suppose. However, why would I intentionally nerf myself when I can run so many other options?

For example, you don't need a Pirate-tribal deck to run Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator. You only need 1 Pirate (Your Commander) to deal damage. As long as you deal damage with at minimum 1 Pirate, you get the trigger which then looks at who all was dealt damage. For example, running with Tana, the Bloodsower could yield a Temur Stompy deck that ramps relatively hard. And technically it isn't combat damage you need, just any sort of damage.

You could run Dimir Artifact Salvage if you drafted a handful of synergy for use between Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor and Silas Renn, Seeker Adept.

Obvious Alena, Kessig Trapper and Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood if you drafted bombs.

Esior, Wardwing Familiar and Alena, Kessig Trapper for some huge spells.

Literally a ton of options. Why would anyone intentionally nerf themselves playing Piper and losing out on some strong synergy between abilities? It literally makes zero sense to me. And if the excuse is that you drafted a few white cards but no white Commanders but you REALLY want to play white, then you need to reassess your situation because it ain't gonna happen.

1empyrean on Unique Commanders

8 months ago

I've seen some good suggestions here already, but just figured I'd say that I'm the same kind of deck builder. I like doing the unusual, even if the commander might actually not be underused.

A few ideas (basically, these are ideas I haven't gotten around to, but want to):

• Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood / Silas Renn, Seeker Adept big artifact cascade (Ingenuity Engine, Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty).

• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic Skeleton Tribal with Skeletal Swarming.

• Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer / Krark, the Thumbless Gruul magecraft deck with Zada, Hedron Grinder.

• Old Gnawbone Energy deck with Aetherworks Marvel, Gonti's Aether Heart, and Karn, the Great Creator.

• Some random deck to run a combo with Blood Funnel and Healing Technique.

• Ravos, Soultender / Esior, Wardwing Familiar Bird Tribal with Soulcatchers' Aerie.

If any of these ideas seem fun, feel free to use them or ask me for further explanations.

Emisary121 on Keskit Kraum

11 months ago

Hey KBK7101!

Thanks for your comment! Having the extra red is a BIG help indeed. It gives u acces to such strong cards as dockside and treasure nabber and some good removal spells!

I can strongly recommend it! Kraum, Ludevic's Opus is a solid choise (for me at least) to take as commander!

You can also pair him with Silas Renn, Seeker Adept for a strong combo but i went with this choice because nobody plays it ^^

1empyrean on Zombie/Mummy Commander

11 months ago

These aren't the only possible options, but here are a couple that I might use for zombies:

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa and Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Ravos, Soultender and Kraum, Ludevic's Opus

1empyrean on What are your Favorite Commanders?

1 year ago

My first built-from-scratch deck was a Sedris, the Traitor King deck, and I kept it until finally retiring it earlier this year (I think I had it for about 9 years).

When Commander Legends came out, Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist caught my eye. Scouts for the Empyrean Squadron is the deck I ended up with.

Ardenn is absolutely worth building around. Maybe try partnering him with Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix or Silas Renn, Seeker Adept .

sally-the-weasel on

1 year ago

Maybe try Aqueous Form for Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Snooktf2 on for darling in the franXX fans

1 year ago

I think purely thematically Jeska, Thrice Reborn HAS to be 002. You can def make a case for Tana, the Bloodsower, but I think Jeska is just a stronger choice.

As for 016...

Jeska, Thrice Reborn + Esior, Wardwing Familiar / Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker because of the whole Jian mythical bird story. Some sort of flying tribal (the Franxx can fly... I think... at least 002's can) or Vehicle Tribal.

Jeska, Thrice Reborn + Kraum, Ludevic's Opus could be the two of them becoming "one" towards the end of the show. Focus on Voltron-ing Kraum.

Jeska, Thrice Reborn + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept just because one's a dude, one's a girl, and each share their respective color palettes that the show has.

If you did go with Tana, the Bloodsower you could use Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist to go more of a dinosaur tribal route for those Naya colors and pack it with Gishath, Sun's Avatar and Zacama, Primal Calamity for flavor fun.

RazortoothMtg on Dimir Tevesh

1 year ago

Silas Renn, Seeker Adept could make an interesting artifact creature aristocrats deck, making it a bit different from your Korvold deeck.

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator same kind of idea, also will help ramp into your 5 drop commander.

The only other partner that would give you blue and seems decent with Tevesh is Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix, which puts you into green as well but her ramping synergizes with Tevesh drawing cards a bit.