Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.

{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colours, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Combos

• Freed from the Real + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Vigean Graftmage

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Long_Con on Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss

2 weeks ago

Raggadragga has recently become my favourite Commander of all time. My deck is Raggadragga Mana Saga, and it is focused on the best mana dorks and 7+CMC creatures. It consistently goes off with some insane fatties on turn 5-6, and it's an absolute pleasure to play. It's even bracket 3, no Game Changers.

I see you have an Elf Tribal thing going on, so the way you value mana dorks is different than mine. I do have a couple of elvish suggestions though, like Fyndhorn Elder, Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood (if you got some higher CMC cards going), and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds.

Non-Elf dorks I think are especially potent are Biophagus, Cradle Clearcutter, Heronblade Elite, Spider Manifestation, Mona Lisa, Science Geek, and others... but some of them are about my deck's goal.

To me, Ragga's greatest power is one you are not taking advantage of - the third ability! If you take a look at my deck, you'll see I did custom categories, check out the 7+CMC Stuff and tell me you don't want to slam those fatties down!

It's all about the power-scaling dorks, like Kami of Whispered Hopes, which you already have. Casting one 7CMC thing untaps them and grows them enough to cast the next, and the next, it's the funnest! :)

Also you can get an easy infinite damage combo with Fanning the Flames and one of them, or Temur Sabertooth and something like Summon: Bahamut or Terastodon.

Long_Con on Raggadragga, Earthbender

2 months ago

For me, the greatest benefit of Raggadragga is to get extremely powerful mana dorks like Heronblade Elite, Kami of Whispered Hopes, Marwyn, the Nurturer, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and Cradle Clearcutter. I have a painstakingly selected group of mana dorks in Raggadragga Mana Saga deck, if you'd like to see. I think you can get more explosive power from these versus dorks like Palladium Myr and Leafkin Druid. Over and over, I was wowed by the quality mana dorks I found, like Trailtracker Scout or the adorable Tender Wildguide.

Long_Con on Raggadragga the druid addict

3 months ago

Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient is made for Raggadragga. Also, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Kami of Whispered Hopes, and Cradle Clearcutter are nice like Heronblade and Marwyn.

It's those scalable interactions I'm focusing on in Raggadragga Mana Saga deck, and I just realized that Wurmcalling goes infinite with those mana dorks! Now, to find something I can cut...

x1AlphaWolf36 on Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

4 months ago

No worries clayperce, the other cards are Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Goldvein Hydra, Seize the Spotlight, Castle Garenbrig, and Evendo, Waking Haven.

IltaertheZendikariRiddleMaster on That is not dead which can eternal lie

7 months ago

Valid points all, CommanderNeyo, yet extensive play-testing has shown me that 2-mana and other low cost creatures are more valuable here. Why? I used to run more ramp and the result was my opponents' boards built up too quickly compared to mine. Plenty of mana, but too few creatures to protect me. So I compensated by adding creatures which added mana and lowered mana-costs: Druid of the Cowl, Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and of course Arixthemes.

As to card draw, it may not be as bad as you think. Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied, Garruk's Uprising, Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth  ^Flip, Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, Thassa, God of the Sea, and Sledge-Class Seedship all either draw cards, put cards directly from hand to battlefield, library to battlefield, or scry.

All I can say is that the deck plays better than it did when I ran more direct ramp and card-draw. It has never lost quickly or easily, and if it wins slowly too - that is in flavor:

"I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium." - H.P. Lovecraft

Mortlocke on Gishath Spared No Expense!!!

1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean in regards to "I like the flexibility those provide over Worldly Tutor." This is how I envision it's use: Turn: You start by attacking with Gishath targeting an opponent with a weak board state. No blocks declared and combat damage is assigned. Gishath's triggered ability hits the stack, in response you cast Worldly Tutor placing Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip to the top of your library. Worldly Tutor resolves, and Gishath has a guaranteed hit at the start of it's triggered ability resolving. Unfortunately you'd have to telegraph your moves with Sylvan Tutor as it's a Sorcery. You'd just cast it before you go to combat. The flexibility here comes in the fact that you also can just use said spells to help your early game as well getting access to Intrepid Paleontologist or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds. I suggest you revisit Worldly Tutor and Sylvan Tutor - perhaps proxy them in for a game or two and see what happens.

Goldberserkerdragon on Robots in the Grass

1 year ago

Solid KongMing, thanks for understanding. Yes, the two things you are hearing is correct. And right, so many variables. It begs me to ponder (lol) why people make the recs they make at all. And yes I own all my cards, even if they are proxied. It's 2024, KongMing, we are all proxying anything $$$ :P. So Gaea's is no different a card to me than rampant growth or growing rites--just hit print. And all ramp needs its qualifications to work anyway. This Nylea deck here, however, I wanted it to be more of a manual/classic big creature cheat deck with "oops, surprise we can infinite mana" and spew all creatures onto the field as good as any Selvala, Heart of the Wilds deck or what have you. Being an ex-Selvala player, it's all in the fun of trying to make something "worse" or harder to pull off actually work.

Be that as it may, Nylea has been a very strong and rather speedy deck. It lacks blue is it's only real problem. :"D

Kamerot on Animar's Wildlife Sanctuary

1 year ago

First off sorry for late replies, I haven't been getting notifications of comments for some reason.

benstranger it's a blast to play. Glad you like it.

carpecanum Thank you for the suggestions. I completely missed Slippery Bogbonder moving counters so that's a definite addition in the future. The others look solid too and I will playtest them when I get a chance.

KingOriMoonstone couldn't agree more and I know I haven't updated my decks in a minute (working towards it), decided to add Selvala, Heart of the Wilds as the replacement

Noobieswede glad you like it! And yeah, the trolls don't bother me. I get them all the time in the comments of my kamahl deck. If you pull yura's profile, they have no decks. So it's a useless troll account, probably hiding the fact they're a terrible deckbuilder or just net deck other peoples ideas. I find it laughable.