Want to increase the power level of your Selesnya Commander deck? Selesnya Commander cards offer some of Magic: The Gathering’s most impactful token generators and creature-based strategies.
In this listicle, we will be looking at the very best Selesnya (Green & White) cards ever printed in MTG and legal in the Commander & EDH format. We won’t be looking at niche strategy cards, such as cards only good in enchantment-based decks, although we will include some cards that work well in those decks, in addition to others.
Here is our list of the Top 10 Best Selesnya Cards in MTG for Commander:
#1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
Kutzil is one of the most popular Selesnya creatures in all of Magic, and for good reason. Most Green-White decks focus on combat to win the game, either going wide, enchanting creatures Voltron-style, or putting +1 counters on creatures.
All of these strategies rely on attacking your opponent. By preventing your opponents from casting spells during your turn, you also prevent the player you’re attacking from using spot removal on your creatures in response.
Selesnya is also one of the weaker color combinations for card draw, which makes Kutzil’s card draw ability particularly relevant. A Selesnya deck will often find ways to put counters on creatures or pump them up, triggering Kutzil’s ability when dealing combat damage to a player.
#2 Mirari’s Wake
Mirari’s Wake is an old-school mana ramp card that gives your creatures a pump effect. These pumps are particularly relevant when you have tokens. Doubling the amount of mana you have on the next turn and all subsequent turns more than makes up for the setup cost of 5 mana.
You only need to survive one turn to make this worth playing, and if you survive two or more turns, this card does incredible work.
#3 Aura Shards
Every deck needs to run some number of enchantment or artifact removal, and Selesnya happens to have one of the best cards to do that in the game.
While Aura Shards doesn’t trigger on its own entering the battlefield effect, it will trigger virtually every turn after that. And if you’re playing a token-based deck, you’ll get to practically wipe the board of artifacts and enchantments. Take that, Rhystic Study!
#4 Eladamri’s Call
At instant speed, Eladamri’s Call is a powerful tutor for Green and White creature decks. Use it to find that game-ending Craterhoof Behemoth or combo card. Being at instant speed is a big deal here, as your opponents won’t know the combo is assembled until it’s too late.
#5 Gavony Township
Gavony Township is the GOAT among colorless lands. It helps trigger proliferate, increase your creatures’ base power, double the power of tokens on its first activation, and more. This colorless land is a must-include in Selesnya decks.
#6 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
Equipping Shalai with Lightning Greaves gives you and all your permanents hexproof. Not only that, you can use your extra mana to keep pumping your creatures!
Shalai is one of the cards every Selesnya deck should consider. At worst, it eats a removal spell and saves your best creature in play. Oftentimes, it will be too much for your opponents to handle.
#7 Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
If Mirri isn’t your Commander, she still deserves a slot in your 99. She limits each opponent to blocking with only one creature and prevents opponents from attacking you with more than one creature. This combination of abilities makes Mirri amazing on both offense and defense, changing the texture of any game in which you play her.
Don’t forget you can use cards like vehicles or artifacts such as Springleaf Drum to tap her and prevent creatures from attacking you, even if you didn’t get to attack.
#8 Strength of the Harvest
Fresh from Modern Horizons 3 is Strength of the Harvest, which is also a tapped Green and White dual land. While I’m not big on tapped lands, this one beats out Surveil and Scry lands in my book.
It’s not uncommon to have six or so creatures and enchantments in play with a Selesnya deck. Including itself, that means this would be a +7/+7 power and toughness pump. That can really help dish out some damage on the right creature. It’s a much better topdeck than a land when you don’t need one.
#9 Aura Mutation
Nothing is worse than having to spend a turn and a card to destroy a Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe. But what if you were actually rewarded for destroying those enchantments instead? Aura Mutation can do it without setting you back a turn. This is an auto-include removal in any go-wide Selesnya deck. You can also use it on your own enchantments in a pinch.
#10 Sterling Grove
Last, but not least, we have Sterling Grove. If you want an enchantment tutor, Idyllic Tutor and Enlightened Tutor would be my first choice. Sterling Grove, on the other hand, offers not only redundancy in tutoring, but also protection for all your other powerful enchantments. Notably, it also gives your enchantment creatures shroud. Don’t forget that shroud means you can’t target them either!
Those are our top 10 Best Selesnya Cards for Commander! If you’re looking to build a token-based deck, check out our list of the Best Token Doublers in Commander!
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