Cold-Eyed Selkie

Creature — Merfolk Rogue

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever this deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Last_Laugh on Knights of the Reliquary

9 months ago

Good job keeping your cmc low here and the deck looks good for the most part. There's 1 major thing that's missing though... card draw. I'm only seeing a few draw cards and some like Kutzil feel out of place here other than preventing opponents from casting on your turn.

Cold-Eyed Selkie and Hunter's Insight are both massive card draw here. Selvala, Explorer Returned would put in some work. Infiltration Lens would be a better fit for 1 attacking creature. Even post-combat Rishkar's Expertise or sac'ing to Momentous Fall would work nicely here.

Crow_Umbra on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

1 year ago

As an additional example, Cold-Eyed Selkie is worded in a way so that you draw cards for the total amount of combat damage it deals.

Let's say Cold-Eyed Selkie is enchanted with a Rancor, and it connects for combat damage. If it connects with its full 3 damage, you will draw 3 cards.

Although their wordings have some similarities, their are some slight differences between "one or more" (Professional Face-Breaker, Grim Hireling, and Olivia, Opulent Outlaw), and "Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, X happens that many times" (Cephalid Constable, Cold-Eyed Selkie, and Needle Specter)

Tic12 on Tale of Doggo and Birb (v9)

1 year ago

I Love the story behind the deck and the choices you made for theme reasons. Must be really fun for you to play the deck.

Have you considered Cold-Eyed Selkie. It seems to be a better draw option than Ice-Fang Coatl and since you just play 11 other snow permanents, the deathtouch isn't that sure.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Aragorns Green Berries

1 year ago

Marwyn, the Nurturer and similar cards seem pretty cool with that ability. Quartzwood Crasher could create massive tokens on its own. Also, how about Cold-Eyed Selkie and friends?

temeref on When I Was Done Dying

2 years ago

CopperheadCA The last 6 games I've played with this deck (and won) I never summoned Karona, haha. She's primarily a threat piece and combat trick; I built this list with her not living through a turn cycle in mind. The fact that she was summoned and you didn't win even on turn 7 tells me that, respectfully, you didn't play to the strengths of the list, or likely just kept a poor hand. The tl;dr on that is that you want a power-scaling creature like Cold-Eyed Selkie on turn 2 or 3, then draw into buffs, ramp into zombies with Field of the Dead, and snowball from there. Everything scales and snowballs, and if you are drawing 4-7 cards each turn with the occasional extra turn you're going to win by turn 7 at the latest even through disruption. Seriously, like, Surge to Victory is broken.

KenKenrith on Your Cheap Obscure Overperformers?

2 years ago

Cold-Eyed Selkie in my Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl deck is by the best performer as long my opponent plays blue.

Tic12 on One Hundred and One Counters

2 years ago

Hi soul_knightmare, Thanks for your comment :) While looking through my deck, i saw, i already added Yavimaya Coast^^

Bred for the Hunt and Guardian Project are already on my wants-list, Mystic Remora is a nice tipp, i'm still not sure, i like the card that much. But i will give it a try. Same for Fact or Fiction.

Psychic Possession seems very expensive with cmc 4. On my list is Cold-Eyed Selkie, which i want to try out soon.

Lands are a generell problem, cause i also have a Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm and a Go-Shintai of Life's Origin deck, which also need green-blue-Lands. But i put your suggestions into my list, it's always work in progress.

KBK7101 on Frost Jarl’s Art Collection

2 years ago

I love the art and flavor for this card, even if the abilities aren't the strongest.

Cold-Eyed Selkie is a fantastic card in this deck. Nice find!