MTG Salvation

A good start would be turn 1: mana dork, turn 2: cast selvala, turn 3: cast phyrexian dreadnought, you draw a card for it and have selvala use it for mana before it dies, then cast big eldrazi (drawing another card) or tooth and nail or whatever.

Once you have a decent-sized creature on the board, Selvala combos with umbral mantle and staff of domination.
Selvala can combo on her own if she's equipped with the umbral mantle too, since each activation gives her +2+2 which means more mana.




Some of the other cards I'm considering adding:
bane of progress
somberwald stag (I'm desperate for green creatures that kill other creatures)
song of the dryads
somberwald sage


Next cards on the chopping block:
sheltering ancient
ravaging riftwurm
greater good
void winnower

Psst.....Natural order



Also surprised to not see Terastodon here.
Loving the decklist though. Glad to see Roffelos is finally unbanned

Since you are going more of the mana dork route Vitalize?

Thanks for the replies guys. I made some changes.

Wouldn't you get more mileage out of something like lupine prototype over the dreadnaught? naught is cooler though.

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Wouldn't you get more mileage out of something like lupine prototype over the dreadnaught? naught is cooler though.

well I'd rather spend 1 and get 12 mana than spend 2 for 5 mana, but the prototype would still be great in this deck. It's not too hard to fetch with yisan, and easily fetchable with birthing pod and eldritch evolution. I'll add it to the 'cards I'm considering' list.

What do you think about Nature's Chosen and Instill Energy?
I feel like even if you only get just one untap out of them, it's worth it.

In regards to vitalize, nature's chosen, and instill energy, those are all good suggestions but I'm worried I'll have too many cards that are focused on producing mana and not enough focused on smashing my opponents.

With Sevela being simlar to Yisan with mana abuse I think scrub ranger would be good and I can see temur sabertooth bouncing eldrazi for many cast effects seems good.

Sabertooth also just goes infinite with her if you have a Haste on the board that isn't also shroud and a big enough creature.

okey dokey I added the scryb ranger and temur sabretooth.

I actually like those 2 additions since I'm planning on converting my yisan deck to this one. Yisan is amazing in 1 vs 1, but in multiplayer I'm finding he's just too weak against spot removal. Once you recast him with zero counters, it feels like it takes forever to get him going again.

I don't see many outlets for your infinite mana, other than dumping your hand and potentially overextending. Duskwatch Recruiter maybe? Lets you draw all the creatures in your deck. Some X spell perhaps? I dunno!

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I don't see many outlets for your infinite mana, other than dumping your hand and potentially overextending. Duskwatch Recruiter maybe? Lets you draw all the creatures in your deck. Some X spell perhaps? I dunno!

Seems real good here.
As much as I think Genesis wave isn't great it may be super good in here being able to cast the next 12-20 spells in your deck for a quick win

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I don't see many outlets for your infinite mana, other than dumping your hand and potentially overextending. Duskwatch Recruiter maybe? Lets you draw all the creatures in your deck. Some X spell perhaps? I dunno!

Seems real good here.
As much as I think Genesis wave isn't great it may be super good in here being able to cast the next 12-20 spells in your deck for a quick win

Oh for sure, especially since green can't really tutor for the artifact mantle win con. Digging for a ton of permanents seems top notch.

I added the genesis wave.

2 cards I might try to find room for are myr superion and song of the dryads.

And with quirion ranger and scryb ranger in there maybe I should consider exploration and Azusa.

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I added the genesis wave.

2 cards I might try to find room for are myr superion and song of the dryads.

And with quirion ranger and scryb ranger in there maybe I should consider exploration and Azusa.

Could be worth a slot for testing.
Sanctum of Ugin is another thing I came across that could give you double eldrazi

I was just digging for might of old krosa in my collection but I ran across a cheapo card that might serve good Aspect of Hydra

If you're considering Lupine Prototype, I'd suggest Myr Superion instead. You have plenty of creature mana to work with, and you don't need to burn out your hand to swing with it.

I made a few more changes. This list is starting to look pretty decent. Thanks guys.

What do you think about Cream of the Crop ? I always agonize over cutting it, but it seems great for this.

I have it in my deck I'm just waiting for my cards to come in the mail.

I'm digging the idea of an Ant Queen here. You run Regal Force and Craterhoof Behemoth.
- Good mana dump if you have nothing else to do.
- Is another win con with infinite mana, should you not be able to deck yourself.
- Makes craterhoof lethal real fast.
- Just a couple turns of making ants without infinite mana threatens to be lethal, and will most certainly be a problem when you draw 20+ cards off of Regal Force.
- Clampable ants

Just seems all around good. Plus, she's a 5/5.

Edit:
Just remembered. Sword of the Paruns: Not as efficient as the Umbral Mantle, but with a 5/5 on board it gets you infinite mana. Plus, since Umbral isn't tutorable in these colors, I think redundancy is nice. Also makes ants scarier.

Have you considered Squall Line as a wincon + mana dump?

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.
At this point I won't know what changes to make until I do some playtesting. I'll update it after that's done.

Just going through my extras and came across a gold piece. Briarhorn two drop 6 power to trigger a draw or +3 combat tricks. Or is it sacrifice timing like Phyrexian Dreadnought ?