Humans After All - Silvar and Trynn

Commander / EDH Humans RBW (Mardu) Sacrifice Tokens

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Creature (30)

• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Angel of Glory's Rise
• 1x Bounty Agent
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Devout Chaplain
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Frontline Medic
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x General Kudro of Drannith
• 1x Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hanweir Garrison  ^Meld
• 1x Hanweir Militia Captain  ^Flip
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Verge Rangers
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Zealous Conscripts
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Outlaws' Merriment
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Splinter Twin

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Gideon Blackblade

Land (35)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Grimclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Increasing Devotion
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Victimize

Commanders (2)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Utter End

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Creature (4)

• 1x General's Enforcer
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal

Artifact (2)

• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Rakdos Signet

Land (1)

• 1x Myriad Landscape

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The main idea of this deck is winning either by attacking with a swarm of creatures or Silvar with his +1/+1 counters,or by playing and infite combos.

Tutors

The deck have several tutors to search for combos Diabolic Tutor , Final Parting , Imperial Recruiter and Pyre of Heroes as a tutorish artifact, those can be improved, as soon as I have the money I´ll try to get Vampiric Tutor , Recruiter of the Guard , Demonic Tutor , Grim Tutor and maybe Gamble since is not so difficult to re-use cards for the graveyard so is a small risk.

Synergies

The humans together feel pretty strong, the deck can draw a lot of cards through feeding Silvar with them, Skullclamp , Grim Haruspex , Species Specialist can help with this purpose, some other cards take advantage from sacrificing like Zulaport Cutthroat . Also Phyrexian Arena helps a lot to draw cards. Creatures like Priest of Forgotten Gods do an amzing job as well. Mentor of the Meek also can take advantage from generating tokens or having creatures ETB.

Token Generators

There are also several token generators, since we always want to have food for Silvar, and tokens for using the other die/sacrifice effects on the deck. My second commander Trynn, Champion of Freedom do a good job at this, also Hanweir Garrison , Hanweir Militia Captain  , Outlaws' Merriment , Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Splinter Twin are token generators that can be used very well for that. Increasing Devotion holds is place for that reason as well.

Graveyard friendly

Since Silvar, Devourer of the Free is really dependant on the humans you use to feed them, I play several spells that can bring back our beloved humans in play like Victimize Phyrexian Reclamation Living Death , some othe creatures can help this purpose Alesha, Who Smiles at Death Garna, the Bloodflame Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

Combos

There are several combos in the deck and those have redundancy to facilitate having them, probably as I get better tutors I could remove that redundancy since I´ll be more likely to have always the pieces I need, this is somethin I´ll need to test, since some of the combo pieces are mediocre cards without their respective pieces

• Angel of Glory's Rise + Fiend Hunter + Sacrifice Outlet: this combo can will give infite enter the battlefield triggers, for now just Silvar have this capability. I´ll think about adding Goblin Bombardment and Ashnod's Altar to have more Sacrifice oulets, I´ll need to test that, since I didn´t find difficult to make Silvar surive enough to combo (since he has Indestructible each time I feed him))

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Splinter Twin + Village Bell-Ringer / Combat Celebrant / Zealous Conscripts : any of those combinations will created infine creatures, those can be used to attack, to be sacrificed to feed Silvar or to win without attacking with Impact Tremors . Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Splinter Twin are very powerful cards by themselves, and they can trigger good synergies without comboing, all the other creatures are humans and they fullfil they deck theme, Combat Celebrant can deliver powerful blows having 2 combat phases, and Village Bell-Ringer can fool our enemies into thinking we don't have blockers after attacking with everything.

• Godo, Bandit Warlord / Combat Celebrant + Helm of the Host : this a good combo, having infite combat phases and able to have infinite creatures as well, Godo is good as tutoring the Helm out of the deck, however I never win using this combo, since is a very mana heavy and slow one, the Helm feels like a good card in this deck since having tokens to be able to Sacrfice is a good idea, but Godo feels kind of clunky to me, I have to test more the deck.

Ramp and mana helpers

As you can see on the deck list I run Weathered Wayfarer , Verge Rangers and Knight of the White Orchid that can help this purpose. Smothering Tithe also can help getting a lot of mana, also I included several Talismans and Signets, and staples as Sol Ring and Arcane Signet

Mana Base

Big area of improvement here, since I have a lot of slow lands, lands like Orzhov Basilica are some examples of what I want to change for more fast last, maybe pain land or shock lands. A prismastic vista or a Mana Confluence could be some very nice add-ons

Areas of improvement

Since this is a new project is not even near to be final, I have some other humans that I want to add to this deck like Chainer, Nightmare Adept or Grand Abolisher and Opposition Agent

I want to get some better reanimate spells like Reanimate duh!!!, and as I told above the tutors could be improved a lot.

The mana base need a lot of work as well, and thinking about adding some artifact that could have good synergy like Eldrazi Monument , Herald's Horn and Ashnod's Altar . Removing Godo is one of the thoughs that cross my mind right now, more testing will be needed.

So I really apreciate all the sugestions you could give me! long live Silvar and his human horde!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Angel of Glory's Rise + Fiend Hunter
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Copy Clone, Human 1/1 R, Human 1/1 W, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Cleric 2/1 RW, Human Rogue 1/2 RW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Human Warrior 3/1 RW, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure