Heroes of Selesnya

by calmingRespirator on 18 December 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (2)


Instants (4)

Artifacts (2)


Enchantments (5)

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Deck Description

The main plan with the deck is to play a creature early then power it up as soon as possible using the powerful Auras you have access to. Green White being my favourite colour combination, I thought it would work well in the colours, and considering how the heroes of Green and White pump themselves up when they're targeted, it appears it does.

The only thing I'm particularly worried about are Full On aggro and control decks, as hexproof doesn't help against mass removal such as Supreme Verdict, which I'm fairly certain can only be stopped by using Gods Willing to give protection from either blue or white, and Sphere of Safety costs 5 mana to protect against any swarm of creatures. So any help with dealing with those kinds of decks would be more than welcome.

This is actually my Second attempt at this kind of deck, the first one being this one http://www.mtgvault.com/calmingrespirator/decks/enchanted-selesnyians/
The differences come from a little bit of testing with a similar deck of cards I already own, and the fact that I just can't afford a Kalonian Hydra in all its glory.

How to Play

Get out creatures as fast as possible, then power them up with anything you have access to, but prioritize Alpha Authority over all else, as your creatures will need protection from things as soon as possible.
Use Warriors Lesson to get a little bit of draw power going when your creatures are strong enough to deal some damage, but not so strong that your opponent will definitely not let them through.
Keep Gods Willing back to try and protect your creatures from spot removal like Hero's Downfall and so you can push damage through just that much faster.

Unfortunately this deck doesn't have much to deal with mass removal like Cyclonic Rift, Merciless Eviction and Supreme Verdict, which can all easily just destroy your momentum and bypass hexproof and protection with ease. If anyone has any ideas on how to help deal with them then that would be a great help.

Other than those little things that are quite important to remember, the deck is quite straightforward: Power up creatures, use them to punch your opponent in the face until they lose.

Deck Tags

  • Heroic
  • G/W
  • Selesnya
  • Standard

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Heroes of Selesnya

good deck take a like!
dont forget about bow of nylea its awesome
you made this to be standard legal? if no check out this deck (not mine) but have some good ideas for you

http://www.mtgvault.com/pauperedhgeneral/decks/selesnya-heroics/

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Posted 19 December 2013 at 14:34

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That looks like an extremely powerful deck, but I'm not sure if it's really what I'm going for. The main problems I have is that I'm planning on going all in on one, maybe two creatures, and I checked the rulings for heroic and multi-target spells only trigger heroic once on one guy.

Bow of Nylea looks really good too, but since the mana base is mostly white and there are a lot of double white spells, I'm not sure how likely it will be that I can support a double green cost in the early game. It could be a really good addition, but I'm not sure what I would take out and I think that the Spear really gives a bit more utility to it.

I've done a bit of tinkering with the deck though, trying to find a couple ways around mass removal, and I think that trollhide is probably the easiest way to do things. Any ideas that might be able to help against those kinds of things?

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Posted 20 December 2013 at 07:51

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