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Legal Salt 1.51Rank #416
Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.
Why is this card good?
Silence is a one-mana speed bump with two very different uses, and which one matters depends entirely on your deck.
In combo decks, Silence is a budget Teferi's Protection-lite: cast it before your combo turn to lock out interaction, then win uncontested. White doesn't have many cheap protective answers, so this is premium for cEDH-style combo lines (Thassa's Oracle, Approach, infinite loops). It also protects a critical resolution like a tutor-into-win.
It's also useful defensively on someone else's turn to stop a key spell, though that's a narrow, reactive use it's not really built for.
Who wants it: white-based combo and "I win this turn" decks that need to force their plan through a table of instant-speed interaction.
When to skip it: fair midrange, tokens, aristocrats, or any deck without a deterministic kill. Silence does nothing to the board, generates zero value, and is a dead draw if you can't actually capitalize on the clear turn. No combo, no Silence.
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Printings (10)
Combos (8)
- Solemnity + Decree of Silence
→ Counter all spells opponents cast, Lock
- Deafening Silence + Knowledge Pool
→ Exile all noncreature spells players cast from their hand, Players can only cast one noncreature spell per turn, Lock
- Etrata, the Silencer + Strionic Resonator + Lithoform Engine
→ Target opponent loses the game
- Linvala, Keeper of Silence + Living Plane
→ Opponents can't tap lands for mana, Lock, Mass Land Denial
- Etrata, the Silencer + Adric, Mathematical Genius + Strionic Resonator
→ Target opponent loses the game
- Deafening Silence + Possibility Storm
→ Exile all noncreature spells players cast from their hand, Players can only cast one noncreature spell per turn, Lock