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Silvar, Devourer of the Free

Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare3 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Rakdos rarely treats Humans as a resource worth building around, but this partnership does exactly that: it wires a token-generator directly to a token-sacrificer. The sacrifice ability converts each expendable body into a permanent +1/+1 counter and a turn of indestructibility, so the 4/2 with menace grows into a threat that eats removal and keeps swinging. That indestructibility clause is the timing wrinkle worth reading twice: it fires at instant speed in response to targeted removal, a board wipe, or a losing combat, which turns the sacrifice into a repeatable protection engine as long as fodder holds out. The counters stick even after the shield fades, so the growth compounds while the indestructibility stays disposable.

The partner clause is where the design gets pointed. This is not the open-ended Partner keyword that lets any two enablers share a table; it is the locked Partner with variant, welding Silvar to exactly one other creature. Trynn, Champion of Freedom builds the Humans; Silvar consumes them. The pairing is deliberately asymmetric, a white-weenie assembly line feeding a Rakdos mouth, so the two halves are legal together but functionally incomplete apart. Trynn wants to go wide; Silvar wants to cash those bodies in for a single indestructible finisher. Run alone, Silvar still slots into any Human-heavy aristocrats shell, but the free tutor stapled to its enters trigger makes the intended reading plain: this is where the line ends.

Silvar, Devourer of the Free (c20)
C20 · #15mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.80
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Partner with Trynn, Champion of Freedom (When this creature enters, target player may put Trynn into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Menace Sacrifice a Human: Put a +1/+1 counter on Silvar. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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