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Selvala, Heart of the Wilds · G · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 45Instants 9Sorceries 3Artifacts 1Enchantments 2Lands 39
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Strategy
Selvala taps for mana equal to your biggest creature's power, which means this deck has two halves that feed each other: creatures large enough to make her worth tapping, and ways to untap her. Her first ability also draws cards whenever a creature enters that is bigger than everything else, so playing threats in ascending order matters more than it sounds.
Early: Dorks before everything: Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Boreal Druid, Arbor Elf, Birds of Paradise and Delighted Halfling. Wild Growth and Priest of Titania do the same job. Selvala should be down by turn two or three, because nothing else in the deck is reasonably castable without her.
Mid: Untap effects are what make Selvala more than a mana dork. Quirion Ranger, Scryb Ranger and Wirewood Symbiote return a Forest or a creature to untap her repeatedly, which turns one activation a turn into several. Temur Sabertooth protects her from removal and rebuys enter triggers, and Seedborn Muse untaps her on every other player's turn.
Late: Spend the mana on things that end games. Craterhoof Behemoth is the usual finisher; Apex Devastator, Ghalta, Gigantosaurus and Terastodon are the bodies that make Selvala produce enough to cast them in the first place. Genesis Hydra and Woodland Bellower find what is missing. Return of the Wildspeaker and Rishkar's Expertise refill off a big creature.
Win conditions: Wins by generating enormous mana through Selvala and spending it on oversized threats, finishing with Craterhoof Behemoth or a single unanswerable creature.
- Quirion Ranger - Untaps Selvala every turn for free
- Temur Sabertooth - Protects Selvala, rebuys enter triggers
- Craterhoof Behemoth - The finisher the mana is for
- Seedborn Muse - Untaps Selvala on every turn
- Priest of Titania - Second mana engine off the elves
- Garruk's Uprising - Trample and cards off big creatures
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger - Cheap once the board is large
- Allosaurus Shepherd - Protects the engine from counterspells
~$939.03
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Creatures (45)
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$1.09
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Quirion Ranger
Creature — Elf Ranger
$1.23
Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Seedborn Muse
Creature — Spirit
$15.44
Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.
Scryb Ranger
Creature — Faerie Ranger
$0.41
Flash
Flying, protection from blue
Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Kogla, the Titan Ape
Legendary Creature — Ape
$2.82
When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
{1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.
Temur Sabertooth
Creature — Cat
$0.88
{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Phyrexian Soulgorger
Snow Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct
$7.33
Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a creature. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Hyrax Tower Scout
Creature — Human Scout
$0.28
When this creature enters, untap target creature.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Legendary Creature — Elemental
$16.19
Ashaya's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)
Wirewood Symbiote
Creature — Insect
$0.29
Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Fierce Empath
Creature — Elf
$0.13
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Fanatic of Rhonas
Creature — Snake Druid
$15.89
{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Craterhoof Behemoth
Creature — Beast
$22.57
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Regal Force
Creature — Elemental
$4.6
When this creature enters, draw a card for each green creature you control.
Delighted Halfling
Creature — Halfling Citizen
$27.19
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Legendary Creature — Bear
$2.84
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Karametra's Acolyte
Creature — Human Druid
$0.36
{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Apex Devastator
Creature — Chimera Hydra
$7.72
Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Allosaurus Shepherd
Creature — Elf Shaman
$51.75
This spell can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered.
{4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.
Slumbering Trudge
Creature — Plant Beast
$0.42
This creature enters with a number of stun counters on it equal to three minus X. If X is 2 or less, it enters tapped. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Priest of Titania
Creature — Elf Druid
$1.41
{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Woodland Bellower
Creature — Beast
$4.91
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a nonlegendary green creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Great Oak Guardian
Creature — Treefolk
$0.14
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Reach
When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$28.56
Trample
When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Terastodon
Creature — Elephant
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Sheltering Ancient
Creature — Treefolk
$1.62
Trample
Cumulative upkeep—Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature an opponent controls. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Frenzied Baloth
Creature — Beast
$1.81
This spell can't be countered.
Trample, haste
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Combat damage can't be prevented.
Elvish Spirit Guide
Creature — Elf Spirit
$2
Exile this card from your hand: Add {G}.
Surrak and Goreclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Bear
$21.52
Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
Defiler of Vigor
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$3.71
Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Phyrexian Dreadnought
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dreadnought
$275.09
Trample
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.
Bane of Progress
Creature — Elemental
$0.28
When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.39
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Manglehorn
Creature — Beast
$1.03
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact.
Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped.
Genesis Hydra
Creature — Plant Hydra
$0.37
When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Instants (9)
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Return of the Wildspeaker
Instant
$1.43
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Crop Rotation
Instant
$3.45
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Momentous Fall
Instant
$3.68
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.
Nature's Claim
Instant
$0.57
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Legolas's Quick Reflexes
Instant
$52.08
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains reach, hexproof, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Force of Vigor
Instant
$5.43
If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Emerald Charm
Instant
$0.18
Choose one —
• Untap target permanent.
• Destroy target non-Aura enchantment.
• Target creature loses flying until end of turn.
Sorceries (3)
Rishkar's Expertise
Sorcery
$4.55
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Natural Order
Sorcery
$14.74
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a green creature.
Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Season of Gathering
Sorcery
$5.89
Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
{P} — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn.
{P}{P} — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type.
{P}{P}{P} — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
Artifacts (1)
The One Ring
Legendary Artifact
$110.35
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Enchantments (2)
Garruk's Uprising
Enchantment
$0.51
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Wild Growth
Enchantment — Aura
$0.39
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.
Lands (39)
Castle Garenbrig
Land
$8.92
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.3
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Shifting Woodland
Land
$7.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Dryad Arbor
Land Creature — Forest Dryad
$3.12
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")
Emergence Zone
Land
$3.79
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
War Room
Land
$5.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Basic lands: 27 Forest
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