Selvala, Explorer Returned stax

Commander / EDH* GW (Selesnya)

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Lands (30)

• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 9x Forest
• 5x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Utility (10)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Veil of Summer

Symbiote Combo (3)

• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote

Untapers (3)

• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Stax (10)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Catastrophe
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Uba Mask

Draw (4)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sylvan Library

Tiger Combo (4)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer

Angel's Grace (1)

• 1x Angel's Grace

Commander (1)

Tutor (12)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Taj-Nar Swordsmith

Multiple Mana (7)

• 1x Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Leyline of Abundance
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Wirewood Channeler

Ashaya Combo (2)

• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Quirion Ranger

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Other (21)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Hall of Gemstone
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Oswald Fiddlebender
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Vryn Wingmare
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Woodland Bellower

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So many combos and fallback plans that is freaking hard to classify this shit.

Welcome to the waiting room for Cloudstone Curio to be reprinted

Yes, Taj-Nar Swordsmith will be a Stoneforge Mystic when it gets banned from modern again and its price drops to 2 dolars.

Fun fact, Village Bell-Ringer was the first card I've ever bought as an upgrade for my Humans precon when I started playing. Today when I took Woodland Bellower from the deck for it was the first time it was actually an upgrade.

Card Choices

Winning Combos

• Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger + mana dork = Forcefeed the whole table with Selvala to death. If the dork can produce 2 mana or more you also get infinite mana. Angel's Grace or Green Sun's Zenith will keep you form losing the game.
• Temur Sabertooth + Lightning Greaves or Thousand-Year Elixir + mana dork that can produce multiple mana = Infinite mana and forcefeed the whole table to death.
• A dude that can produce a fuckton of mana + Staff of Domination or Sword of the Paruns or Umbral Mantle = Infinite mana and forcefeed the whole table to death.
• Wirewood Symbiote + Maskwood Nexus or Mirror Entity = infinite untaps after bounce wirewood with its own effects, which leads to... forcefeeding the whole table to death.
• Marwyn, the Nurturer + Umbral Mantle = Since umbral mantle makes marwyn stats higher they can combo without any set up. Infinite mana and forcefeeding again.

There are probably more ways to kill people, but those are enough.

Why is this tutor here?

• Chord of Calling, Eladamri's Call, Eldritch Evolution, Fauna Shaman, Finale of Devastation are awesome in any creature list. This is still true in this one.
• Congregation at Dawn is a one card combo in this list. You can pile in a sequence to draw Quirion Ranger, Wirewood Symbiote and Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Draw Qurion with selvala and untap it with quirion's effect. Draw wirewood with selvala, return qurion to untap selvala and combo with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger. With minimal set up you can also win with a Wirewood Symbiote + Mirror Entity pile.
• Taj-Nar Swordsmith is very important since we can tutor a lot of creatures, but not a lot of artifacts. This may be better than stoneforge since the equipment cannot be countered.
• Shared Summons There are a lot of two card combos here. Tooth and Nail is also an option, but I don't have it, so I don't use it.
• Open the Armory pretty meh, but it gets the job done.
• Birthing Pod We do not have a focused pod line with this deck, so this loses a lot of power. One of the possible cuts. I really like the card tho.

• Woodland Bellower is probably the worst card in the deck ATM.

Cool Interactions

Mirror Entity and Maskwood Nexus makes Wirewood Channeler, Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid very happy little elves. (seriously, I can't format this line and it's driving me crazy)

Drannith Magistrate + Uba Mask lock everyone but yourself from cards while they're on the field.

Uba Mask+ Selvala, Explorer Returned can be quite disruptive. Is pretty easy to screw some combo pieces from your opponents in this interaction while most of your stuff can be played as soon as drawn if needed.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.61
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure