Selvala, Heart of the Hydra

For years I've been planning to build a Hydra EDH deck using all my favourite Hydras and I ultimately settled on Selvala, Heart of the Wilds as its commander. She would be my Mother of Hydras, helping to bring truly massive and mighty, many-headed monstrosities into the world, or at least onto the board.

The deck was never going to be ultra competitive but in its current iteration I feel that it can hold it's own against most casual EDH decks. It's the first EDH build I've brewed from scratch so I would appreciate any input and assistance.

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Theros: Beyond Death brought two new hydra into the mix -

Polukranos, Unchained & Ironscale Hydra.

Unfortunately, Ironscale just didn't make the cut and the new Polukranos is Green-Black and won't go in.

Nyxbloom Ancient on the other hand... It lets Selvala tap for triple as well as all my lands (turning Nykthos into an absolute engine). So the Ancient is in, and out is Skyshroud Claim (a solid ramp card but a little slow here and has a better home in my Sliver Overlord deck where it can fetch up shocks and duals).

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Revision 26 See all

(4 years ago)

-1 Animist's Awakening main
+1 Birds of Paradise main
+1 Burgeoning main
-1 Castle Garenbrig main
+1 Forest main
+1 Green Sun's Zenith main
-1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary main
+1 Llanowar Elves main
+1 Natural Order main
-1 Protean Hydra main
-1 Seedborn Muse main
-1 Silklash Spider main
-1 Sol Ring main
+1 Sylvan Library main
Date added 4 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

21 - 0 Mythic Rares

42 - 0 Rares

7 - 0 Uncommons

4 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.77
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Emblem Vivien Reid, Food, Hydra */* G, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G
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