Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
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.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11518
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept turns every successful combat damage into a free artifact from your graveyard — the recursion is on-board, not a one-shot trigger, which means it compounds fast in artifact-heavy shells. The cost is the deathtouch clause doing all the defensive work; pair him with evasion or you're waiting on blocks that never happen, though commanders like Mishra, Eminent One and recursive loops like Time Sieve make that patience pay off immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mishra, Eminent One
Mishra, Eminent One churns artifacts into the graveyard every combat through token generation, and Silas Renn, Seeker Adept converts that graveyard into a recurring resource engine — together they form a self-sustaining loop where Mishra fills the bin and Silas empties it back onto the battlefield.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept sees almost all of his play in Commander, where the graveyard recursion scales with a 99-card artifact package and games last long enough to swing multiple times. Legacy and Vintage permit him, but a three-mana 2/2 that requires combat damage to do anything is too slow and conditional for those formats, where graveyards get hated out or games end before he lands. Commander is where the card actually lives — specifically as a partner commander, since his blue-black identity opens the color pair for a wide artifact toolbox and he frees up your primary commander slot for something splashier.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Silas Renn, Seeker AdeptTime SieveMyr Battlesphere
Infinite turns; Lock
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Silas Renn, Seeker AdeptThe One RingKrark-Clan Ironworks
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; You have protection from everything; Lock
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Dargo, the ShipwreckerSilas Renn, Seeker AdeptRuthless TechnomancerPhantasmal Image
Infinite colored mana; Infinite commander casts; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite Treasure tokens; Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield
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Silas Renn, Seeker AdeptThe One RingArcbound Ravager
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; You have protection from everything; Lock
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Silas Renn, Seeker Adept isn't currently available in our feed, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. As a partner commander with consistent artifact-recursion utility, he tends to hold moderate demand in Commander circles — worth picking up if you see him at a reasonable price rather than waiting.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.