̶D̶o̶r̶a̶ Selvala the Explorer

Commander / EDH

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Instant (6)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Entreat the Angels
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Faith's Fetters
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (14)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Crown of Convergence
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Pyxis of Pandemonium
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Creature (27)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking *oversized*
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x New Benalia
• 7x Plains
• 1x Saltcrusted Steppe
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Artifact (1)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive

Creature (3)

• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Seedborn Muse

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Darksteel Mutation

Artifact (1)

• 1x Uba Mask

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Dora's all grown up! Now she's a bitch.

I actually took some of the meanest stuff out. Hokori, Dust Drinker + Seedborn Muse went to the sideboard for potential future play.

This is a new deck, it needs to be play tested. I'll make updates after I see how the deck plays. Any input/suggestions/comments/dora hate is welcome.

This deck started with a package to work with the tops of players libraries. Lantern of Insight is key here (if only I had Trinket Mage...). Ghoulcaller's Bell, Pyxis of Pandemonium, Codex Shredder, Temple Bell etc all help me set up the top cards of libraries to set up a good parley off Selvala, Explorer Returned, or to simply control the tops of peoples' libraries so they don't draw bombs. I'll (ideally) consistently know the top card of my library between the lantern, Crown of Convergence, Oracle of Mul Daya, and Courser of Kruphix. The latter two allow me to play lands off the top of my deck so I don't necessarily have to parley into lands.

Mind's Eye and Well of Lost Dreams are solid draw engines for the deck. I can parley, drawing some number N amount of cards and netting N mana, which triggers Mind's Eye N times, allowing me to dump all of N mana I just got into it to draw N cards. Well of Lost Dreams functions similarly but on the life gain side of Selvala's ability. Alhammarret's Archive is sideboarded for now. It would increase the effectiveness of all of this, but I don't think it's necessary and it could start drawing me too hard.

The primary win con is the Titania, Protector of Argoth engine. Her fuel is Crucible of Worlds. Add in fetch lands with extra land drops (i.e. Windswept Heath, Oracle of Mul Daya, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration) to shit steady dudes. Constant Mists and Knight of the Reliquary are pretty solid here. Sylvan Safekeeper is also very very good.

A timely Entreat the Angels is another win con. I can miracle it on the opponent's end step before me if I parley into it (or like Temple Bell), and can even use Selvala's mana to pay for the miracle cost. The angels could then swing right away. Sylvan Library and Sensei's Divining Top help fix the top of my library which could help set up the miracle, though they're in here for fixing the top card of my library in general, not just for this miracle synergy.

These combos aren't necessarily game breaking, but they're present nonetheless:

Note: Primary Sac outlets = Greater Good and Martyr's Cause

Saffi Eriksdotter + Sun Titan plus a sac outlet = infinite recursion between the two. This digs hard with Greater Good.

Emeria Shepherd or Saffi Eriksdotter + Sun Titan + Yosei, the Morning Star with a sac outlet can lock down a player. It's easy to consistently get the shepherd's landfall trigger each turn with this deck. Worst case scenario, it won't be hard to sac a plains every turn (Sylvan Safekeeper/Constant Mists/Knight of the Reliquary/etc) and recur it with Crucible of Worlds. I had Prismatic Omen in the deck so that every land drop would be a plains, but I cut it because that's only really good with this one card. However, that would be pretty nuts, since a fetch land would count as a plains drop, as would whatever it fetches, and if I'm playing 3+ lands a turn....this could make for some solid recursion and fuel for sac outlets.

Saffi Eriksdotter + Reveillark/Karmic Guide + a sac outlet = infinite recursion loop. This doesn't matter too much for the deck. If reveillark is doing this loop, Acidic Slime or Solemn Simulacrum (or Veteran Explorer with an Aven Mindcensor out) can jump in. It puts a huge forcefield around me if Martyr's Cause is the sac outlet, or could potentially dig if Greater Good is what I'm using. I could Aura Shards a lot I guess. I may add Auriok Champion if I feel like I want to add infinite life for this loop, but meh.

Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Woodfall Primus/Kitchen Finks + a sac outlet is a thing. Gavony Township is in to help those latter two dudes cling around a bit if melira isn't present.

If Greater Good is digging me too hard, two pseudo-solutions: Library of Leng to help me not dig through my library as quickly, and Loaming Shaman/Primal Command to reshuffle if my library is getting low. I may add Elixir of Immortality at a later date if I feel like I need it.

if I ever decide to pick a different general other than selvala, blue would be beautiful for this deck (trinket mage, field of dreams, intruder alarm/genesis chamber, etc).

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Saffi Eriksdotter + Sun Titan Hokori, Dust Drinker + Seedborn Muse
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 44 - 3 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Elemental 5/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C