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Selvala's Charge

Sorcery4 generic manaGreen mana

The mechanic that turns a card draw into a group ritual, and this is the build that asks every opponent to fund your board while doing it. The symmetry is the whole arrangement: everyone reveals, everyone draws a single card, but only one player banks Elephants for every nonland flipped. That asymmetric payout is the tension a group-draw effect lives or dies on, because the shared cantrip is the carrot that makes the table tolerate the bargain. The token count is genuinely outside your control, which is the price of peeking at the whole pod's top cards instead of your own: a board flush with lands leaves you holding nothing but a five-mana cantrip, while a room of spell-dense decks can drop three or four bodies at once. That variance is by design. Parley was built for multiplayer pods, where the appeal of letting opponents draw is offset by the prospect of converting their topdecks into your army, and few cards make the trade this literal: their nonland cards, your green creatures. It scales with the table rather than your own deck, which inverts how most token producers are tuned, and that is the design hook. The more spells in the room, the more this rewards you for handing everyone else a card.

Selvala's Charge (cns)
CNS · #39uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

Parley — Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. Then each player draws a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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