Syr Gwyn Hero of Sunforger

Commander / EDH* RBW (Mardu)

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Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cathedral of War
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 3x Mountain
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x True Conviction

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Artifact (26)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Chariot of Victory
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Fleetfeather Sandals
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Heartseeker
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Sulfurous Blast
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Wear / Tear

Creature (12)

• 1x Balan, Wandering Knight
• 1x Cavalier of Dawn
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Kinsbaile Cavalier
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Silverblade Paladin
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Sun Titan

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Artifact (8)

• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Helm of Kaldra
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Kaldra
• 1x Worldslayer

Instant (4)

• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Silence

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Duelist's Heritage

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This is my Syr Gwyn Hero of Ashvale deck. I am an expert RW voltron player as I have been playing Aurelia for years, and also run Akiri Bruse against lower tier competitive decks. This deck will look to use the free equip of Syr Gwyn onto herself as much as possible and hit for huge amounts of commander damage. This current build of the deck is very removal heavy featuring about 18 pieces, so it has the ability to answer a lot of different problems. One card notably missing would red elemental blast or pyroblast, if you play in a blue heavy meta or expect a lot of cyclonic rifts, i would add those in as they are perfect cards to grab with sunforger.

First and foremost, this is a sunforger deck. A few lands your commander and sunforger is all you need to remove your opponents key pieces and keep your stuff protected. From there you can use sunforger to play enlightened tutor and grab feast and famine and aggravated assault as needed, and that should close the game up pretty quickly. Whenever possible include removal cards that are able to be cast with sunforger, remember instants only.

Heartseeker gives repeatble removal, and you can run thornbite staff with it to shoot down everything on board, but I did find thornbite to be a bit of a dead card without Heartseeker. The more knights you run in your deck, the less you need thornbite staff.

I dont have helm of the host in the deck, but because Godo is in the deck you can certainly add it. Although in my testing so far, i havent found it necessary.

Assault Suit is really powerful in this deck. It gives haste, protection from fleshbag marauder effects, and essentially allows for extra combat steps via your opponents.

Check out the maybeboard for additional cards to consider all of which would be really good options. THe biggest problem with this deck is just not having enough deck slots to run everything. For more forgiving metas you can decrease the removal count a bit and add more equipments and creatures as necessary.

I wouldnt say no to another extra combat spell or 2. Im a big fan of waves of aggression as it interacts favorably with sword of feast and famine. Its not necessarily infinite but it maybe enough to kill everyone at the table. Aurelia is also just good.

This deck probably needs a volcanic offering, it just does so many good things.

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Golem 3/3 C, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 1/1 WB, Treasure
Folders	Xmage, EDH Ideas, -stuff, Maybe, Gwyn Hero Sunforger, must builds, COOL DECK, Cool Decks, Good Ideas, New ideas