Selvala's Stampede
Sorcery
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for wild or free. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card for each wild vote. Put those creature cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest into your library. You may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield for each free vote.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Treasure Chest
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4099
Selvala's Stampede puts every creature from every player's hand onto the battlefield — at six mana, that's a game-warping swing that refills your board and rips your opponents' threats out of their hands simultaneously. Commanders like Círdan the Shipwright that pack enormous creatures with enters-the-battlefield effects get the most out of it, but any green stompy shell with expensive hands treats this as a near-unconditional bomb.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Círdan the Shipwright
Círdan the Shipwright runs some of the fattest creatures in the format, and Selvala's Stampede drops all of them onto the battlefield while stripping opponents' hands at the same time — it's mass Elvish Piper attached to a hand-denial effect.
Ureni of the Unwritten
Ureni of the Unwritten builds around enormous creatures entering the battlefield to trigger cascade and explore effects, making Selvala's Stampede a windfall that can unload an entire hand of bombs in one shot.
Mayael the Anima
Mayael the Anima decks are stuffed with high-power fatties, so Selvala's Stampede functions as a second mass-cheat effect that bypasses the five-power restriction entirely and cheats in whatever you're holding.
Maelstrom Wanderer
Maelstrom Wanderer cascades into Selvala's Stampede naturally off a big top-end chain, and the free creature deployment pairs well with the haste anthem to attack immediately with whatever lands.
Eshki, Temur's Roar
Eshki, Temur's Roar cares about jamming large creatures into play fast, and Selvala's Stampede accelerates that plan by bypassing mana costs entirely for everything in hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Selvala's Stampede is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales directly with the number of players, since you're pulling creatures from up to three opponents' hands in addition to your own. In a four-player game, landing this on turn five or six with a loaded hand is frequently game-altering; in a two-player context the symmetry becomes a liability and it drops off sharply. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no meaningful play there — six mana sorceries that don't immediately win the game don't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander shell where it occasionally shows up, again only in creature-heavy builds that can exploit the free deployment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Selvala's Stampede isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. It was a Conspiracy: Take the Crown release with limited reprint history, which has historically kept copies from flooding the market — worth verifying current stock before expecting to find it cheaply.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.