Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds is a mana engine that rewards you for playing big creatures and turning them sideways. Her first ability draws cards when you cast a creature with the highest power, giving you card advantage while you develop the board. Her tap ability generates massive amounts of colored mana based on your largest creature, letting you cheat out enormous threats and then cast more spells the same turn. The deck wins by ramping into fatties, drawing cards off Selvala's triggers, and then closing out the game with combat damage from your outsized creatures—often accelerating into a threat so big that subsequent creatures trigger the draw ability.

Build around creatures with high power-to-cost ratios and effects that reward you for playing them. Cards like Craterhoof Behemoth, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, and Tyrranax Rex come down ahead of schedule thanks to Selvala's mana generation. Include creatures that duplicate or copy themselves, like Doubling Season or Scute Swarm, to pump your power count and trigger the draw engine repeatedly. Instant-speed threats and protective spells ensure your big creatures stick around long enough to close the game.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.