Syr Gwyn, A Knigth's Tale

Commander / EDH* Artifact Jank Knights RBW (Mardu) Voltron

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Instant (7)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Despark
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Knights' Charge
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Artifact (26)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Heartseeker
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Surestrike Trident
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Creature (22)

• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Embereth Shieldbreaker
• 1x Foulmire Knight
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kinsbaile Cavalier
• 1x Knight-Captain of Eos
• 1x Knight Exemplar
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Skyknight Vanguard
• 1x Smitten Swordmaster
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Thalia's Lancers

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault
• 5x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tournament Grounds
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wasteland

Commander (1)

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This is my take on upgrading the Throne of Eldraine Knights Tribal Brawl precon deck with Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale at the helm geared towards a more janky approach. I managed to retain 25 cards (inclusive of basic lands) from the Precon Deck while trying to power up the deck as much as possible for EDH gameplay.

Alternate plays aside from the obvious swinging with Knight+equipments are as follows:

Get Syr Konrad, the Grim or Corpse Knight out and generate infinite creature tokens into play doing the Nim Deathmantle loop with Knight-Captain of Eos sacrificing him and a token into Ashnod's Altar for the win.

Get card advantage by abusing ETB effects of tutor creatures such as Thalia's Lancers , Imperial Recruiter , Recruiter of the Guard , Stoneforge Mystic and Knight of the White Orchid with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker .

You may attach Blade of Selves to these ETB tutor creatures and get as much ETB activations whenever equiped creature attacks. As an example, if the Blade is attached to Stoneforge Mystic and she attacks (depending on the number of your opponents), the Stoneforge Token Copies produced will tutor that number of equipments to your hand.

Another wincon in this deck is Godo, Bandit Warlord which will tutor Helm of the Host into play whenever he enters the battlefield. You may equip the Helm to Godo himself for free if he is knighted by Conspiracy while our Commander is on the battlefieald or eqiup for free with Hammer of Nazahn , Sigarda's Aid or Puresteel Paladin with Metalcraft to win via infinite combat phase.

Sunforger is an amazing toolbox equipment that will fetch your instants to answer any given situation. Spot removal? Need for indestructibility? Tutor? Protection? Counter a blue spell? No problem. Since the equip cost is free with Gwyn, you just need to keep a white and a red mana to activate Sunforger to cast any of your white or red instants directly from your library.

Having black in our Commander's color allows us to exploit graveyard synergies with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge , Syr Konrad, the Grim , Corpse Knight , Mask of Memory , Buried Alive , Morality Shift and Living Death .

For example, if you have 12+ mana available and Syr Konrad, the Grim is on the battlefield, you may cast Morality Shift exchanging your graveyard and library. This will trigger Syr Konrad's ability dealing a lot of damage to each of your opponents equal to the total number of creature cards affected by Morality Shift both ways. Now if Corpse Knight hits your graveyard after the Shift, you may then cast Living Death which will trigger both Syr Konrad, the Grim and Corpse Knight 's abilities dealing lethal damage to each of your opponents assuming there are more than 20 creatures involved and your opponents have at most 40 lives each.

Or shoot masssive direct damage to your opponents by unequipping and equipping Surestrike Trident and all of pump equipments to and from each of your knights for lethal.

This deck will be constantly updated as more ideas get generated while I continue to playtest this deck.

Any upvotes, comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Artifact 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Jank 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Knights 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu) 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Copy Clone, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure
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