Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Mistcutter Hydra

This spell can't be countered.
Haste, protection from blue
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Forest

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Repulsive Mutation

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Negate

Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Hungering Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Gargos, Vicious Watcher

Vigilance
Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast.
Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Doppelgang

For each of X target permanents, create X tokens that are copies of that permanent.

Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Silver Scrutiny

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less.
Draw X cards.

Island

Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Valgavoth's Onslaught

Manifest dread X times, then put X +1/+1 counters on each of those creatures. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library, then put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Nyxborn Hydra

Bestow {X}{G}{G} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Reach, trample
This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.

Elvish Mystic

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Arcane Signet

Mind Spring

Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Opulent Palace

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Feral Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

Entreat the Dead

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Miracle {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Kamahl's Druidic Vow

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Look at the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of land and/or legendary permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Llanowar Elves

Ulvenwald Hydra

Reach
Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Goldvein Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

Fading Hope

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Monstrous Emergence

As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or reveal a creature card from your hand.
Monstrous Emergence deals damage equal to the power of the creature you chose or the card you revealed to target creature.

Steelbane Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{2}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Wren's Run Hydra

Reach
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Reinforce X—{X}{G}{G} ({X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

Ecological Appreciation

Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names that each have mana value X or less and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest onto the battlefield. Exile Ecological Appreciation.

Hooded Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Morph {3}{G}{G}
As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Prismatic Omen

Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Vastwood Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature among any number of creatures you control.

Elvish Regrower

When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Primordial Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Primal Might

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Managorger Hydra

Trample
Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Lifeblood Hydra

Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Voracious Hydra

Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• This creature fights target creature you don't control.

Death Wind

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Green Sun's Twilight

Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Unbound Flourishing

Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains {X}, double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains {X}, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Wildwood Scourge

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on another non-Hydra creature you control, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature
{U}: Tap enchanted creature.
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Counterspell

Vigor

Trample
If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Stumpsquall Hydra

When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among it and any number of commanders.

Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager

Grakmaw enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, put a +1/+1 counter on Grakmaw.
When Grakmaw dies, create an X/X black and green Hydra creature token, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Grakmaw.

Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Biovisionary

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

Protean Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it.
Whenever a +1/+1 counter is removed from this creature, put two +1/+1 counters on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Skullwinder

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Sol Ring

Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Silkguard

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control.
Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Benevolent Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
{T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.

Zaxara, the Exemplary

Deathtouch
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Lair of the Hydra

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{X}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

Swamp

Mossborn Hydra

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

The Goose Mother

Flying
The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up.
Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.

Neverwinter Hydra

As this creature enters, roll X d6. It enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total of those results.
Trample
Ward {4} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.)

Genesis Hydra

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Heroes' Bane

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
{2}{G}{G}: Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is its power.

Blight Grenade

Destroy target creature.
All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)