First printed in Commander 2016 (2016)
All 6 prints
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Legendary Artifact Creature — Human
Deathtouch
Whenever Silas Renn 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.)
2/2
- Illustrated by
- Joseph Meehan
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (13)
- Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined. - If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. If Falthis and Kediss are your commanders, your deck may contain cards with black and/or red in their color identity, but not cards with green, white, or blue.
- An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands.
- You may cast that card this turn even if Silas Renn leaves the battlefield.
- To have two commanders, both must have the partner ability as the game begins. Losing the ability during the game doesn't cause either to cease to be your commander.
- You can choose two commanders with partner that are the same color or colors. In Commander Draft, you can even choose two of the same commander with partner if you drafted them. If you do this, make sure you keep the number of times you've cast each from the command zone clear for "commander tax" purposes.
- Silas Renn doesn't change when you can cast the target artifact card. For example, if you target an artifact card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
- If you don't cast the card, it remains in your graveyard.
- Casting the card causes it to leave your graveyard and become a new object. You can't cast it multiple times.
- Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- You pay the costs for the target artifact card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs rather than the card's mana cost.
Prices
MTGO price: 1.67 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
33 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite turns, Lock: Myr Battlesphere + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Time Sieve
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything…: Krark-Clan Ironworks + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Dargo, the Shipwrecker + Phantasmal Image + Ruthless Technomancer + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything…: Arcbound Ravager + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring
- Infinite turns, Lock: Guild Artisan + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Time Sieve
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything…: Phyrexia's Core + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + The One Ring
- Infinite turns, Lock: Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Infinite turns, Lock: Codex Shredder + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite turns, Lock: Codex Shredder + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Time Warp
- Infinite turns, Lock: Capture of Jingzhou + Codex Shredder + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
