<p>Looking to power up your <em>Silverquill Influence</em> Commander precon? We're here to give you some ideas for both budget and non-budget upgrades, as well as recommendations for cards you should cut from the precon.</p>
<p>If you're looking for an analysis on what's in the deck and how to play it, check out <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/silverquill-influence-secrets-of-strixhaven-precon-guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Precon Guide here</a>.</p>


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<p>Here's what's in the <em>Silverquill Influence</em> precon:</p>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Silverquill" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Killian, Decisive Mentor
[/Commander]
[Creatures]
*1 Ajani&#039;s Chosen
*1 Archon of Sun&#039;s Grace
*1 Armored Skyhunter
*1 Breena, the Demagogue
*1 Combat Calligrapher
*1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal&#039;s Edit
*1 Doomwake Giant
*1 Eidolon of Countless Battles
*1 Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish
*1 Eriette of the Charmed Apple
*1 Firemane Commando
*1 Hateful Eidolon
*1 Herald of Amity
*1 Keen Duelist
*1 Killian, Ink Duelist
*1 Kor Spiritdancer
*1 Mangara, the Diplomat
*1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
*1 Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
*1 Scriv, the Obligator
*1 Shadrix Silverquill
*1 Sram, Senior Edificer
*1 Starfield Mystic
*1 Tomik, Wielder of Law
*1 Transcendent Envoy
[/Creatures]
[Enchantments]
*1 Angelic Destiny
*1 Animate Dead
*1 Chains of Custody
*1 Changing Loyalty
*1 Coercive Impetus
*1 Darksteel Mutation
*1 Eldrazi Conscription
*1 Fallen Ideal
*1 Flickering Ward
*1 Forum Filibuster
*1 Ghostly Prison
*1 Ghoulish Impetus
*1 Gift of Immortality
*1 Intermediate Chirography
*1 Land Tax
*1 Martial Impetus
*1 Parasitic Impetus
*1 Raffine&#039;s Guidance
*1 Redemption Arc
*1 Sage&#039;s Reverie
*1 Screams from Within
*1 Sentinel&#039;s Eyes
*1 Sheltered by Ghosts
*1 Shielded by Faith
*1 Songbirds&#039; Blessing
*1 Spirit Mantle
[/Enchantments]
[Sorceries]
*1 Promise of Loyalty
*1 Secret Rendezvous
*1 Winds of Rath
[/Sorceries]
[Instants]
*1 Anguished Unmaking
*1 Fracture
*1 Inkshield
*1 Vanishing Verse
[/Instants]
[Artifacts]
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Fellwar Stone
*1 Sol Ring
*1 Talisman of Hierarchy
[/Artifacts]
[Lands]
*1 Arcane Lighthouse
*1 Bojuka Bog
*1 Caves of Koilos
*1 Command Tower
*1 Desolate Mire
*1 Eclipsed Steppe
*1 Exotic Orchard
*1 Fabled Passage
*1 Fetid Heath
*1 Forum of Amity
*1 Isolated Chapel
*1 Path of Ancestry
*8 Plains
*1 Shineshadow Snarl
*1 Silverquill Campus
*1 Study Hall
*1 Sunlit Marsh
*8 Swamp
*1 Temple of Silence
*1 Terramorphic Expanse
*1 Turbulent Moor
*1 Umbral Expanse
*1 War Room
[/Lands]"></span></div>


<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ethereal Armor" href="#" target="_blank">Ethereal Armor</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="All That Glitters" href="#" target="_blank">All That Glitters</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ethereal Armor"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="All That Glitters"></div></div>
<p>These Auras fulfill the same function of making a creature huge for a very small investment. Since Killian wants attacks, we might as well have big attackers.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Slumbering Keepguard" href="#" target="_blank">Slumbering Keepguard</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Slumbering Keepguard"></div></div>
<p>Don't underestimate the advantage we can get from scrying multiple times a turn. We'll quickly get to the cards you want most. Plus, it has its own built-in Ethereal Armor.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Spectral Grasp" href="#" target="_blank">Spectral Grasp</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Spectral Grasp"></div></div>
<p>What happens when we're down to two players left in the game and we've goaded all our opponent's creatures? Well, we're in trouble. Spectral Grasp helps with completely stopping the biggest creature on the board from hurting us or stopping our attackers.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Visions of Brutality" href="#" target="_blank">Visions of Brutality</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Visions of Brutality"></div></div>
<p>This is a really fun one to put on a giant beater that we've goaded. Why not drop two opponent life totals at once?</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist" href="#" target="_blank">Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist"></div></div>
<p>In the early game we'll be dropping Impetus Auras on smaller creatures to get our engine going. But what happens when a bigger creature enters that we'd rather have enchanted? Enter: Ardenn, who can move Auras around once on each of our combats.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Danitha Capashen, Paragon" href="#" target="_blank">Danitha Capashen, Paragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Danitha Capashen, Paragon"></div></div>
<p>We're throwing Danitha in because she not only makes our Auras cheaper, she's also an extremely powerful attacker once she's loaded up with Auras herself.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Eye of Nidhogg" href="#" target="_blank">Eye of Nidhogg</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Eye of Nidhogg"></div></div>
<p>Here's one that might have slipped past a lot of people's radars during <em>Final Fantasy</em> previews. There are multiple benefits on this Aura, from goading a threat, to making it harder to block, to coming right back to our hand if it ends up in the graveyard.</p>
<p>A home run for this deck.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Grim Guardian" href="#" target="_blank">Grim Guardian</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Grim Guardian"></div></div>
<p>Let's speed up games by dropping life totals a bit more quickly.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Minimus Containment" href="#" target="_blank">Minimus Containment</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Minimus Containment"></div></div>
<p>We're gonna ditch an instant removal spell or two so we can replace them with enchantment removal like this. Minimus Containment turns <em>any</em> nonland permanent into a Treasure, removing all of its other abilities and card types.</p>
<p>Not great to put on someone's commander, but excellent removal for pretty much anything else.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Victor, Valgavoth&#039;s Seneschal" href="#" target="_blank">Victor, Valgavoth&#039;s Seneschal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Victor, Valgavoth&#039;s Seneschal"></div></div>
<p>Surveil 2 the first time we drop an enchantment each turn is some extremely significant card advantage. Making players discard for the second drop isn't all that great, but getting a creature from any graveyard just by bringing out a third enchantment in a turn is a huge win.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Boon of the Spirit Realm" href="#" target="_blank">Boon of the Spirit Realm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Boon of the Spirit Realm"></div></div>
<p>With this Boon, our creatures will be <em>massive</em>. This is how we end games with combat.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ondu Spiritdancer" href="#" target="_blank">Ondu Spiritdancer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ondu Spiritdancer"></div></div>
<p>One enchantment is good. Two is better.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Soaring Lightbringer" href="#" target="_blank">Soaring Lightbringer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Soaring Lightbringer"></div></div>
<p>Not only are we giving all our enchantment creatures evasion, we're also <em>making</em> enchantment creatures. Up to three a turn, depending on how many players we attack.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor" href="#" target="_blank">Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards rotate"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor"></div></div>
<p>The important part here is Secret Arcade, which replaces <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Enchanted Evening" href="#" target="_blank">Enchanted Evening</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> for us, since that's outside our color identity. If every single nonland permanent enters play as an enchantment, we'll be getting a whole lot more triggers from Killian and all of our constellation cards.</p>


<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hall of Heliod&#039;s Generosity" href="#" target="_blank">Hall of Heliod&#039;s Generosity</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hall of Heliod&#039;s Generosity"></div></div>
<p>An Enchantress staple that's just a bit on the pricey side. We may go a whole game without using it, but some games it'll be crucial.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Reconnaissance" href="#" target="_blank">Reconnaissance</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Reconnaissance"></div></div>
<p>Killian wants us to attack, but sometimes we don't have better blockers. Reconnaissance makes sure we still get the attack trigger and can pull our attacker back if things get dangerous.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Brilliant Wings" href="#" target="_blank">Brilliant Wings</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Brilliant Wings"></div></div>
<p>Flying and hexproof at instant speed for just two mana? <em>And</em> we can move it? Seems like a great add.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Spirit Loop" href="#" target="_blank">Spirit Loop</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Spirit Loop"></div></div>
<p>Drop this on a large creature we've goaded to watch our life total jump. And we get it back if it goes to the grave.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Black Market Connections" href="#" target="_blank">Black Market Connections</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Smothering Tithe" href="#" target="_blank">Smothering Tithe</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Black Market Connections"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Smothering Tithe"></div></div>
<p>These are extremely powerful enchantments that keep us fueled up with mana and cards. Easy adds.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Codsworth, Handy Helper" href="#" target="_blank">Codsworth, Handy Helper</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Codsworth, Handy Helper"></div></div>
<p>This Robot does a lot for us, from protecting Killian, to giving us two mana to cast Auras, to moving our Auras around. All very useful things.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Daxos the Returned" href="#" target="_blank">Daxos the Returned</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Daxos the Returned"></div></div>
<p>It only costs three mana to drop an enchantment creature token that gets bigger and bigger as the game goes on. I've seen many Commander games ending with Daxos making a handful of 9/9 tokens, and we can easily do the same with this deck.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Anointed Procession" href="#" target="_blank">Anointed Procession</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Anointed Procession"></div></div>
<p>This isn't exactly a token deck, but there's just enough of them to make this token-doubling enchantment worth a spot.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hallowed Haunting" href="#" target="_blank">Hallowed Haunting</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hallowed Haunting"></div></div>
<p>Speaking of which, here's some more tokens, in addition to a really strong anthem effect. Combine this with the Spirit tokens from Daxos the Returned and we'll be threatening lethal in no time.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rashel, Fist of Torm" href="#" target="_blank">Rashel, Fist of Torm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rashel, Fist of Torm"></div></div>
<p>Not every game will warrant including this creature, as sometimes we'll be swinging out with an army of tokens ("going wide"). But sometimes the deck will have us going tall (attacking with one really large creature) rather than wide, and in those games Rashel is indispensable.</p>
<p>This is also easy to misread at first glance. With Rashel on the board, a single attacker will get +1/+1 for every single Aura we control.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Retether" href="#" target="_blank">Retether</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Retether"></div></div>
<p>Just a nice recursion piece when we need it.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines" href="#" target="_blank">Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines"></div></div>
<p>There's a lot of enter the battlefield effects (ETB) in this deck, including Killian's. This version of Elesh Norn doubles our ETB effects, while shutting down our opponents'. This will hurt a lot of opponents' game plans.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Super State" href="#" target="_blank">Super State</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Super State"></div></div>
<p>When you're going tall, it's hard to top this Aura.</p>


<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Raffine&#039;s Guidance" href="#" target="_blank">Raffine&#039;s Guidance</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sentinel&#039;s Eyes" href="#" target="_blank">Sentinel&#039;s Eyes</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Raffine&#039;s Guidance"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sentinel&#039;s Eyes"></div></div>
<p>It's nice that these are cheap, and that they come back. But they just don't do enough by themselves to warrant staying in the deck.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Intermediate Chirography" href="#" target="_blank">Intermediate Chirography</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Intermediate Chirography"></div></div>
<p>If this deck were more focused on making Inklings, I could see keeping this. But it really isn't, so it's taking up space for more enchantment-centric cards.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Keen Duelist" href="#" target="_blank">Keen Duelist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Keen Duelist"></div></div>
<p>It's decent card advantage, but doesn't fit our strategy in any way.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vanishing Verse" href="#" target="_blank">Vanishing Verse</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vanishing Verse"></div></div>
<p>We need to ditch an instant-speed removal spell to make room for more enchantment-based removal.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Breena, the Demagogue" href="#" target="_blank">Breena, the Demagogue</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shadrix Silverquill" href="#" target="_blank">Shadrix Silverquill</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Breena, the Demagogue"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Shadrix Silverquill"></div></div>
<p>Don't get me wrong, I love and play both of these creatures in <a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/8211808/neyam_shai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">my black/white political deck</a>, but this deck is much more geared towards aggression than politics. So they don't make a ton of sense.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fallen Ideal" href="#" target="_blank">Fallen Ideal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Fallen Ideal"></div></div>
<p>This isn't an <a href="https://edhrec.com/tags/aristocrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aristocrats deck</a>, so we won't always have creatures to sacrifice to make this worth including.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nils, Discipline Enforcer" href="#" target="_blank">Nils, Discipline Enforcer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Nils, Discipline Enforcer"></div></div>
<p>Another political legend that I'm a huge fan of, but just doesn't fit in this deck.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Screams from Within" href="#" target="_blank">Screams from Within</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Screams from Within"></div></div>
<p>If there are no 1/1s on our opponents' boards, this is basically a dead card.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Secret Rendezvous" href="#" target="_blank">Secret Rendezvous</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Secret Rendezvous"></div></div>
<p>We're moving away from the deck's political sub-theme, so this card is an easy cut.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tomik, Wielder of Law" href="#" target="_blank">Tomik, Wielder of Law</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Tomik, Wielder of Law"></div></div>
<p>This isn't as good of a deterrent as it sounds on paper. Opponents can easily pay three life in the early game when life totals are high. They can also get around the trigger by just attacking us with one creature.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ajani&#039;s Chosen" href="#" target="_blank">Ajani&#039;s Chosen</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ajani&#039;s Chosen"></div></div>
<p>An army of 2/2s isn't a bad way to go, but we can do better.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Combat Calligrapher" href="#" target="_blank">Combat Calligrapher</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Combat Calligrapher"></div></div>
<p>The whole Inkling sub-theme doesn't really hold up with the main plan of the deck. So this is an easy cut.</p>
<h3><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Firemane Commando" href="#" target="_blank">Firemane Commando</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Firemane Commando"></div></div>
<p>We have better card draw options that fit our enchantment-centric game plan.</p>


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