Selvala, Explorer Untapped

Commander / EDH Competitive GW (Selesnya)

Ghilliam

Land (34)

• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Artifact (10)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Creature (25)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wirewood Channeler
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Instill Energy
• 1x Reprobation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Song of the Dryads

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Aim High
• 1x Avoid Fate
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Nature's Chant
• 1x Silence
• 1x Steady Aim
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x To Arms!
• 1x Vitalize
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Mobilize
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Winds of Abandon

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I'll start with a judge ruling:

"Selvala's parley ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to..."

High Power (not cEDH) GW Selvala, mostly staples. Paradox Engine was banned one day before I built this, and it still wins on turn 5. You can grow incredibly fast without Paradox Engine , don't believe the hype.

Use Umbral Mantle or Staff of Domination on any dork that taps for more than 3, gain infinite mana. Once you have infinite mana, you can activate Selvala, Explorer Returned until you draw a Hurricane , after casting Grand Abolisher . Even though her mana ability doesn’t use the stack, every untap engine will, so you will need to plan accordingly. If you parley ~80 times you will gain 80 life, so even if you somehow don’t win that turn, you’ll be in a good place. Very straightforward.

Honorable mention here: Quirion Ranger . Any Selvala player will tell you this card is strictly better than Paradox Engine , especially as a last resort. You can only use the ability once per turn, but the utility is unbounded. There’s a reason why it’s the featured card in this decklist.

Creature beats is great too, with Craterhoof Behemoth or Avacyn, Angel of Hope . I do not plan to use Temur Sabertooth in this deck (which combos with Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and Craterhoof) because this isn't Brostorm. If anything, it is very easy to win out of nowhere with this deck without infinite combos, and can be played in any high power casual pod.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.29
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Treasure