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Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · {1}{G}{G} · Green commander
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 colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
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What Selvala, Heart of the Wilds actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
- Activated ability{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
What a Selvala, Heart of the Wilds deck needs
Plays as big-creature ramp. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-power creatures (each biggest one draws and powers the mana ability)
- untap effects for Selvala (Umbral Mantle / Staff of Domination loops)
- mana sinks and big-mana payoffs
The Selvala, Heart of the Wilds deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 22× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
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.
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Joraga Treespeaker1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Elvish Archdruid3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
Combos with Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Selvala, Heart of the Wilds is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Staff Of Domination23,537 decks
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Aggravated Assault18,123 decks
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Umbral Mantle15,226 decks
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Jumbo Cactuar10,964 decks
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Freed From The Real10,350 decks
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Emiel The Blessed9,657 decks