Selvala, Explorer Returned

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout

Parley — {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, add {G} and you gain 1 life. Then each player draws a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Last_Laugh on Bant SWAT Team

1 month 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.

SteelSentry on Junky deck

7 months ago

Selvala, Explorer Returned with every single instant that untaps a creature:

https://scryfall.com/search?q=id%3Agw+o%3Auntap+t%3Ainstant+%28o%3A%22all+creatures%22+OR+o%3A%22target+creature%22%29&unique=cards&as=gridℴ=name

what's your wincon? who knows!

griffstick on Crystal Ball or Sylvan Library?

9 months ago

I have Sylvan Library in my Selvala, Explorer Returned deck. It works great there. Draw for turn pay 4 life to draw an additional card and stack the top of the deck for Selvala, Explorer Returned and gain some life back

Ferth on Fog Draw EDH

10 months ago

I got to play a bunch this weekend! The deck performed well I've updated the list to match what I've currently got, my local shop was missing some singles.

Generous Gift moved back to the maybeboard but only cause I couldn't buy it this weekend.

I found that the deck worked quite well but I obviously couldn't close out games. I had a few scenarios where Selvala, Explorer Returned could repeat pretty much forever thanks to Sword of the Paruns or Umbral Mantle and Smothering Tithe + 4 players in the game. Flipping my commander till deck out was too painful to ever actually do so games ended with scooping.

The take away is that I need to be able to end games just to save everybody's sanity. More things like Felidar Sovereign and Psychosis Crawler are needed. Helix Pinnacle is a meme and I'll basically never pull it off. So here is the maybe board for actually finishing games.

Viseling Storm Seeker Black Vise Iron Maiden Sword of War and Peace

Some other cards that look interesting to me are Credit Voucher to help me find the above win conditions and Champions of Minas Tirith as another tax. I found that the deck was excellent at filling everybody's hands as expected.

griffstick on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

Since it was a wild challenge I didn't get ninja'ed

Next challenge is to create a new Selvala, Explorer Returned

Last_Laugh on Fury of Conclave and Clans - Token Populate

1 year ago

Scepter of Celebration, Call the Coppercoats, and Indulge / Excess will all make large amounts of tokens.

I'd also suggest more draw engines. Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Dhalsim, Pliable Pacifist, Selvala, Explorer Returned, Skullclamp, Welcoming Vampire Tocasia's Welcome, Elemental Bond, Tenuous Truce and Rumor Gatherer are all good budget(ish) options here.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Put Loran in …

1 year ago

I am considering putting Loran of the Third Path in my Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis EDH deck for her destruction ability, and I most likely would remove Temple Bell to make room for her, since Kwain, Itinerant Meddler and Selvala, Explorer Returned have secondary abilities beyond card drawing, but Loran does not cause all players to draw cards, which means that I would need to use her more strategically, and I could also risk making enemies if I do not user her ability carefully.

What does everyone else say? Should I put Loran of the Third Path in my Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis deck, or is she not worth the trouble that she could cause?

ZendikariWol on What to do with Sisay

1 year ago

My Sisay deck runs a politics subtheme, with legends like Arvad the Cursed and Urza's Ruinous Blast (notably not tutorable) to close out the game with. A surprising amount of legends do political things- Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Gahiji, Honored One, Selvala, Explorer Returned, etc.

It's all about finding a theme with a lot of legends and rolling with it in my opinion. That said, I am also a very casual player, favoring fun synergies over actually winning the game. Interpret my opinions with that understanding.