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Selvala, Explorer Returned

Selvala, Explorer Returned

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · {1}{G}{W} · Green/White commander

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. (Activate only as an instant.)
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What Selvala, Explorer Returned actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Selvala, Explorer Returned deck needs

Plays as big mana. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Selvala, Explorer Returned deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Selvala, Explorer Returned

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
  8. Ellywick Tumblestrum4 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  3. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  4. Genji Glove5 mana
  5. Copperhorn Scout1 mana
  6. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  7. Instill Energy1 mana
  8. Nature's Chosen1 mana

Punishes the opponents' own actions — casting, drawing, searching, attacking cost them

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  3. Burgeoning1 mana
  4. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Archaeomancer's Map3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Beast Within3 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Nature's Claim1 mana
  7. Erode1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Selesnya Signet2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Joraga Treespeaker1 mana

Combos with Selvala, Explorer Returned

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Selvala, Explorer Returned is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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