Old favourite Trostani, Selesnya's Voice focusses more on a burst of lifegain and makes use of cards like Angelic Accord or the new Celestine, the Living Saint. Karlov of the Ghost Council supports this theme in another colour combination. If you want to go all in on this strategy, she's easily the best option. Lifegain: With Trelasarra, Moon Dancer we got a strong Selesnya Soul Sisters commander, who profits from individual life gain triggers. Other Commanders Elfball: While Selvala makes a decent impression as an elfball commander, there are other arguably more powerful options: You should consider Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Lathril, Blade of the Elves, or Marwyn, the Nurturer, if you want to go all in on elves.

In most cases this is not relevant, but there are some weird interactions with cards like Panglacial Wurm and Future Sight. ()īecause her Parley is a mana ability, it can't be responded to, can't be Stifled or otherwise prevented. ()Įxcept in some very rare cases, the card each player draws will be the card revealed from the top of their library. Whatever mana that ability produced will be in your mana pool and each player will have drawn a card. You may reverse other mana abilities you activated while casting the spell, but Selvala's ability can't be reversed. The spell returns to whatever zone you were casting it from. If you activate Selvala's ability while casting a spell, and you discover you can't produce enough mana to pay that spell's costs, the spell is reversed. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to. Selvala's parley ability is a mana ability. Selvala's Parley ability is quite a weird corner case, so let's have a look at the rules: The deck contains many ways to break this parity.

Even if we give out some cards to our opponents at the same time, the boost an optimized Selvala deck gets is nothing to be sneezed at. Selvala gives us access to three of the most important resources in the game. Good ol' times.) Our elven explorer offers, what we crave most! Cards! Mana! Life! It's a revelation! But not anymore! ( Just pretend it's 2014, Conspiracy dropped, White is the worst colour by far, and Green doesn't get to draw a bazillion cards by playing one land. The real stuff and the reason to play Selvala. Parley - : Each player reveals the top card of their library.įor each nonland card revealed this way, add and you gain 1 life.

Selvala heart of the wilds deck