What should you cut from the Silverquill Influence precon?
Silverquill Influence is the Killian, Decisive Mentor precon, released on April 24, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names one cut, and it rests on the deck's own counts. Here it is, with the reason it gives.
| Card | Why EDHTuner would cut it |
|---|---|
| Secret Rendezvous | You have more card advantage than you need. You're at 16, and we aim for 12. One can go. |
Where a deck runs more of a job than EDHTuner aims for, EDHREC's play data helps pick which of those cards goes first.
The deck is short on ramp and targeted disruption. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Killian, Decisive Mentor leads an auras deck that also leans on enchantments, goad and attack triggers. Its plan to win is to attack with its creatures or to drain the table. Its 100 cards include 37 lands, 8 ramp, 16 card advantage and 6 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Silverquill Influence precon is bracket 1 or higher. It runs no Game Changers, mass land denial, extra-turn cards or two-card infinite combos.
The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Silverquill Influence | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 37 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 16 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Targeted disruption: 8 covers an aggressive deck like this. Mass disruption: 1 covers an aggressive deck like this.
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Silverquill Influence.
- Auras
- Enchantments
- Goad
- Attack triggers
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as. Two cards show in more than one group, because each one fits more than one of them.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Killian, Decisive Mentor |
Lands, 37 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| 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 | 1 |
| Plains | 8 |
| Shineshadow Snarl | 1 |
| Silverquill Campus | 1 |
| Study Hall | 1 |
| Sunlit Marsh | 1 |
| Swamp | 8 |
| Temple of Silence | 1 |
| Terramorphic Expanse | 1 |
| Turbulent Moor | 1 |
| Umbral Expanse | 1 |
| War Room | 1 |
Ramp, 8 cards
| Arcane Signet | Fellwar Stone | Killian, Ink Duelist |
| Land Tax | Sol Ring | Starfield Mystic |
| Talisman of Hierarchy | Transcendent Envoy |
Card advantage, 16 cards
| Armored Skyhunter | Coercive Impetus | Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit |
| Firemane Commando | Hateful Eidolon | Herald of Amity |
| Killian, Decisive Mentor | Kor Spiritdancer | Mangara, the Diplomat |
| Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor | Sage's Reverie | Secret Rendezvous |
| Shadrix Silverquill | Sram, Senior Edificer | Tomik, Wielder of Law |
| War Room |
Targeted disruption, 6 cards
| Anguished Unmaking | Chains of Custody | Darksteel Mutation |
| Fracture | Sheltered by Ghosts | Vanishing Verse |
Mass disruption, 2 cards
| Promise of Loyalty | Winds of Rath |
Protection, 4 cards
| Flickering Ward | Redemption Arc | Shielded by Faith |
| Spirit Mantle |
Everything else, 28 cards
| Ajani's Chosen | Angelic Destiny | Animate Dead |
| Archon of Sun's Grace | Breena, the Demagogue | Changing Loyalty |
| Combat Calligrapher | Doomwake Giant | Eidolon of Countless Battles |
| Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish | Eldrazi Conscription | Eriette of the Charmed Apple |
| Fallen Ideal | Forum Filibuster | Ghostly Prison |
| Ghoulish Impetus | Gift of Immortality | Inkshield |
| Intermediate Chirography | Keen Duelist | Martial Impetus |
| Nils, Discipline Enforcer | Parasitic Impetus | Raffine's Guidance |
| Screams from Within | Scriv, the Obligator | Sentinel's Eyes |
| Songbirds' Blessing |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add and every cut it names, and it playtests each swap it suggests.
The Killian, Decisive Mentor page shows what public Killian, Decisive Mentor decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.