

I personally recommend running 8-12 elves in the deck so that you can have room for the rest of your deck without diminishing your elf package. There are other neat elves that can go well here like Marwyn the Nurturer, but I personally don’t like her. When building this deck, you can go full elf tribal if you want to. For quirion Ranger, he’s useful to help untap Selvala to produce more mana which can be helpful. Ezuri is there to be another win condition if any of our combos gets stopped.

Normally at times when we have priest or the sage or the Archdruid, we tend to make some decent amount of mana to were we really don’t need Selvala sometimes. Fingers crossed.Now we do want Selvala out on turn two at the earliest so we do run our mana dork elves to help out. Ideally, I will complete this deck by the end of 2021 and do away with this tawdry spoiler. Why: I don't know why I don't own this already, but I'll get one soon. I'm not holding my breath or skipping meals in the mean time. If I luck into one, it's welcome to live here. Mox diamond, on the other hand, doesn't do a whole lot to fix 4-5 land hands either. Chrome Mox goes a long way to making one-land hands attractive, whereas mox diamond does not. Mox diamond, despite its triple digit price tag, is pound-for-pound worse than Chrome Mox in terms of smoothing out early hands. Why: So I have an opinion on this beyond "I ain't got it". Can be awkward with the null rod stuff though. Why: I don't own one, but I gotta respect Ballista as a nice tidy wincon. If dockside combo remains prevalent, I'll get one. Why: I don't own one and riftwurm accomplishes the same thing 90% of the time. Why: I don't own one, but it's on top of my list. I like it more than most of my other deviations, and it will probably be the last card I cut as I finish out the deck. Why: I like safekeeper and all, but a) I don't own one right now and b) Crossroads is super clutch sometimes. Sylvan safekeeper → Concordant Crossroads They are as follows, and should not be seen as 1:1 comparisons. So there's a few differences between my list and the offical one.
