505
2/3/2025
hydra deck
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $410.06
Salt sum: 37.4
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Commander

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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, Vicious Watcher fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Gargos, Vicious Watcher (sld) 1329

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Landfall

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Oran-Rief Hydra

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Oran-Rief Hydra. If that land is a Forest, put two +1/+1 counters on Oran-Rief Hydra instead.

Creature
Oran-Rief Hydra (e01) 69
Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (fdn) 645
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of Scute Swarm instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (dsc) 197

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Removal

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
Bite Down

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Bite Down (fdn) 212
Broken Wings

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

Instant
Broken Wings (fdn) 214
Bushwhack

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Bushwhack (j25) 641
Pick Your Poison

Choose one — • Each opponent sacrifices an artifact of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature with flying of their choice.

Sorcery
Pick Your Poison (mkm) 170
Polukranos, World Eater

{X}{X}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When Polukranos, World Eater becomes monstrous, it deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures your opponents control. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to Polukranos.

Creature
Polukranos, World Eater (plst) THS-172
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 231
Vivien Reid

+1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −3: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. −8: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible."

Planeswalker
Vivien Reid (fdn) 234

Removal

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Counters

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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.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {3}{G}{G}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Creature
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower (otj) 157
Feral Hydra

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

Creature
Feral Hydra (j22) 658
Gift of the Viper

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Instant
Gift of the Viper (mh3) 156
Hungering Hydra

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

Creature
Hungering Hydra (c20) 177
Ironscale Hydra

If a creature would deal combat damage to Ironscale Hydra, prevent that damage and put a +1/+1 counter on Ironscale Hydra.

Creature
Ironscale Hydra (plst) THB-296
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Managorger Hydra.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (blc) 230
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 Nyxborn Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Nyxborn Hydra and has reach and trample.

Creature Enchantment
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
Railway Brawler

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Railway Brawler (otj) 175
Renata, Called to the Hunt

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Enchantment
Renata, Called to the Hunt (thb) 196
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.

Creature
Wildwood Scourge (fdn) 236

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Protection

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Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mkc) 185
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (fdn) 233

Protection

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Tokens

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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.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (fdn) 216
Hooded Hydra

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

Creature
Hooded Hydra (mkc) 171
Hydra Broodmaster

{X}{X}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When Hydra Broodmaster becomes monstrous, create X X/X green Hydra creature tokens.

Creature
Hydra Broodmaster (m3c) 233
Life Finds a Way

Whenever a nontoken creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Enchantment
Life Finds a Way (rex) 5
The Skullspore Nexus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures. {2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Artifact
The Skullspore Nexus (lci) 340

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Creature

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Eladamri, Korvecdal

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. {G}, {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Reveal a card from your hand or the top card of your library. If you reveal a creature card this way, put it onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Eladamri, Korvecdal (mh3) 149
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

Trample When Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant (lci) 326
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.

Creature
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 471
Quilled Greatwurm

Trample Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.) You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.

Creature
Quilled Greatwurm (fdn) 339
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power. {G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Creature
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (cmm) 1064
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski, Bearer of Secrets attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (blc) 244
Treetop Snarespinner

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {2}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Treetop Snarespinner (fdn) 114

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Pump

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Blanchwood Armor

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control.

Enchantment
Blanchwood Armor (fdn) 213

Pump

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Tutor

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Invasion of Ikoria

Battle
Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190
Primal Command

Choose two — • Target player gains 7 life. • Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library. • Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. • Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Primal Command (mm3) 132
Traverse the Ulvenwald

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Traverse the Ulvenwald (inr) 422

Tutor

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Draw

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Apex Devastator

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

Creature
Apex Devastator (cmr) 217
Lifeblood Hydra

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

Creature
Lifeblood Hydra (cmm) 303
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (otc) 199
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 1
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (ltc) 235
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (drc) 125
Goldvein Hydra

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

Creature
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 341
Grow from the Ashes

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Grow from the Ashes (fdn) 225
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (j25) 149
Mana Reflection

If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.

Enchantment
Mana Reflection (2xm) 175
Map the Frontier

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Desert cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Map the Frontier (otj) 170
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth

Creature
Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation (lci) 204Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation (lci) 204
Open the Way

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Open the Way (mat) 23
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar, Peema Renegade enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (j25) 708
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 2
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (otc) 209
Ulvenwald Hydra

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

Creature
Ulvenwald Hydra (jmp) 439
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.

Enchantment
Unbound Flourishing (sld) 1331
Vastwood Surge

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Vastwood Surge (nec) 133
Vorinclex

Creature
Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 213Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 213

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Land

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Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 291
Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}. {1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Hashep Oasis (otc) 299
Lair of the Hydra

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

Land
Lair of the Hydra (afr) 259

Land

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Recursion

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Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (p30a) 12
Evolution Witness

{1}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Evolution Witness, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Evolution Witness (mh3) 151

Recursion

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