Selvala, Explorer Returned
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Parley — T: Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, add and you gain 1 life. Then each player draws a card. (Activate only as an instant.)
Combos with Selvala, Explorer Returned
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Tolarian Kraken Infinite
- Near-infinite card draw for all players
- Near-infinite draw triggers for all players
- Near-infinite green mana
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite card draw for each opponent
- Near-infinite draw triggers for each opponent
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite green mana
- Pili-Pala Agatha's Soul Cauldron Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Infinite card draw for all players
- Intruder Alarm The Locust God Infinite
- Infinite card draw for all players
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Near-infinite creature tokens with haste
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite green mana
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite untap of all creatures
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2014-05-29
Except in some very rare cases, the card each player draws will be the card revealed from the top of their library.
- 2026-08-05
Selvala’s ability is not a mana ability. Players can respond to it, and it can’t be activated in the middle of paying for a cost. A recent update to rule 605.1a has made any abilities that move cards to or from libraries no longer mana abilities.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Selvala, Explorer Returned, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellan, the Kid | 1 | 4 | — |
| Jodah, the Unifier | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis | 1 | 0 | — |
| Morska, Undersea Sleuth | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ms. Bumbleflower | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Bant 3 decks
- Five-Color 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck
Every version of Selvala, Explorer Returned
7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $18.10
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $0.28
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Normal
- $0.28
- Normal
- $0.38
- Normal
- $0.34
Commander 2016
- Normal
- $0.29
Conspiracy
- Normal
- $0.38
- Foil
- $9.87
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Selvala, Explorer Returned — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
