Selvala, the REAL mana battery

Commander / EDH Elves Mono-Green Ramp Tap/Untap

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Creature (31)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Battle Mammoth
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Gigantosaurus
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Visionary
• 1x Lupine Prototype
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Ravaging Riftwurm
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Relic Golem
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sheltering Ancient
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wolfir Silverheart
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Phytoburst
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Traverse the Outlands

Land (34)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 26x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x War Room
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Artifact (3)

• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Aspect of Hydra
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Invigorate
• 1x Might of Old Krosa
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Primal Bellow
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Return to Nature

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Instill Energy
• 1x Nature's Chosen

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter

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Introduction and Game Plan

Two different plans where you can go pretty wide with elf synergies or go tall and rely on the commander to generate loads of manas. Each way we are planning to snowball ahead of our opponents and hopefully overwhelm them.

Synergies and Play Lines

First turns should be attempting to land a mana dork so you can play Selvala on turn 2.

• Llanowar Elves
• Fyndhorn Elves
• Boreal Druid
• Elvish Mystic
• Arbor Elf
• Birds of Paradise
• Green Sun's Zenith X=0 to search for Dryad Arbor

All of these enable a turn 2 Selvala.

From there try to get one of the high power/low mana creatures onto the board to beef up the ability to generate mana with Selvala, also helped out by the many pump spells and untap effects. Once you believe you have generated all the mana you can, use a card draw effect (Most of them will reference the highest power among creatures you control, sometimes sacrificing them as a cost which is why you want to generate all the mana you can first) and the see where you can go from there.

Longer games you can steadily gain card advantage through repeatable card draw synergies:

• Wirewood Symbiote + Elvish Visionary / Llanowar Visionary
• Wirewood Symbiote + Any elf + Guardian Project / The Great Henge / Beast Whisperer
• Quirion Ranger + Dryad Arbor + Guardian Project / The Great Henge (This line is notably less good that the other two since it takes up your land drop for the turn.

Sometimes opponents will focus too hard on your Selvala. Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid can sometimes be decent enough stand ins for her mana generation if you have managed to draw enough elves.

Ending The Game

Ending the game will usually (if not always) happen in combat. You will quite often have a single creature with 20+ power which can sometimes kill people (if you choose not to use it to draw cards immediately. Sometimes the correct play if you believe an opponent is going to try and deal with your board, then you can focus on other players the next turn))

• With a large enough board state, Finale of Devastation will end the game on its own. Using it to find Pathbreaker Ibex will further solidify that.
• Pathbreaker Ibex will usually be enough to win a game once you have a large enough creature. Don't sleep on Instill Energy giving haste so you can hold the Ibex in your hand if you fear removal.
• Kamahl, Fist of Krosa can very easily be activated multiple times so your board will be lethal.
• Genesis Wave will put you you so far ahead 9/10 times that a board wipe is necessary or you will win the game.

Noteable Exclusions

• Phyrexian Dreadnought : High monetary value. Also makes the deck a little more tricky to play (But also more explosive) with lines that will require you to sequence generating mana and untapping Selvala while the dreadnought's sacrifice trigger is still on the stack.
• Kogla, the Titan Ape : Usually a tool used to go infinite. Most of the time with Hyrax Tower Scout (Also not included). Was too afraid that there may be a hidden infinite I missed, but is also notably very juicy with Eternal Witness
• Temur Sabertooth : See above, but also allows infinite lines with Wirewood Symbiote and Great Oak Guardian .
• Cloudstone Curio : See above.
• Scryb Ranger : Just another untap effect. May be better than Magewright's Stone or Thousand-Year Elixir if you enjoy the value lines with Dryad Arbor .
• Umbral Mantle : Generates infinite mana with Selvala too easily.
• Sword of the Paruns : See above
• Staff of Domination : See above. Is also an infinite mana outlet to boot.
• Wirewood Channeler : Serves the same function as Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid at a higher cost. May be worth including in some iteration of the deck.
• Karametra's Acolyte : See above. Also notably not an elf, so is sometimes harder to untap.
• Ezuri, Renegade Leader : A stand in for Kamahl, Fist of Krosa but only pumping your elves can sometimes lead to less lethal boards.
• Regal Force : Big dumb idiot that draws some cards. May be worth an inclusion.
• Fierce Empath : Tutor for big dumb idiots. Reusable with Wirewood Symbiote . Can be fetched with Woodland Bellower to find other things.
• Craterhoof Behemoth : Often the best finisher in green. Pathbreaker Ibex just seems to function better in many cases in this deck specifically.
• Soul of the Harvest / Primordial Sage : Serves the same function as Beast Whisperer at a higher rate.
• Wild Growth / Utopia Sprawl : Leads to more turn 2 Selvalas. Also notably very good with Arbor Elf
• Exploration : Sometimes leads to turn 2 Selvalas.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Wurm 6/6 G