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Hydras Base
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Zaxara, the Exemplary (dmc) 176

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Counters

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Contortionist Troupe

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Coven — At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Contortionist Troupe (mid) 178
Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (j25) 653
Fangs of Kalonia

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature that had a +1/+1 counter put on it this way. Overload {4}{G}{G} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Fangs of Kalonia (mh3) 153
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.

Creature
Feral Hydra (j22) 658
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (j25) 147
Hydra Trainer

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of counters on permanents you control. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) {2}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Hydra Trainer (mh3) 159
Ivy Elemental

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Ivy Elemental (iko) 161
Nimbus Swimmer

Flying This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Nimbus Swimmer (ddo) 54
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 (cmm) 332
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.)

Creature
Wren's Run Hydra (mh2) 183

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Creature

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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) 107

Creature

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Draw

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Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
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.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (otc) 97
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
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.

Creature
Genesis Hydra (otc) 193
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.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Twilight (one) 169
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.

Creature
Hydroid Krasis (clu) 195
Jadelight Spelunker

When this creature enters, it explores X times. (To have it explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Jadelight Spelunker (lci) 196
Multiple Choice

If X is 1, scry 1, then draw a card. If X is 2, you may choose a player. They return a creature they control to its owner's hand. If X is 3, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. If X is 4 or more, do all of the above.

Sorcery
Multiple Choice (j22) 325
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (blc) 172
Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (moc) 238
Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (otc) 117
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.

Sorcery
Villainous Wealth (otc) 249

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Evasion

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Skatewing Spy

{5}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Creature
Skatewing Spy (rna) 52

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Finisher

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Biomass Mutation

Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.

Instant
Biomass Mutation (dsc) 214

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (inr) 278
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Foreboding Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{G}{U} ({B}{G}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Foreboding Landscape (mh3) 221
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
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.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (blc) 322
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (dsc) 307
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (dsc) 309
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (dsc) 311
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (j25) 156
Viridescent Bog

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Viridescent Bog (dsc) 324

Land

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Protection

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Lost in the Maze

Flash When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Enchantment
Lost in the Maze (mkm) 64

Protection

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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 (dsc) 92
Blighted Burgeoning

Enchant land When this Aura enters, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.) Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Blighted Burgeoning (mom) 177
Gift of Paradise

Enchant land When this Aura enters, you gain 3 life. Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Enchantment
Gift of Paradise (c21) 191
Krosan Restorer

{T}: Untap target land. Threshold — {T}: Untap up to three target lands. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Creature
Krosan Restorer (dmr) 168
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Rampant Rejuvenator

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is this creature's power, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rampant Rejuvenator (nec) 28
Reclusive Taxidermist

This creature gets +3/+2 as long as there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Reclusive Taxidermist (vow) 214
Sage of the Maze

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. {T}: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.

Creature
Sage of the Maze (m3c) 119
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (pip) 245
Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

{T}: Add {G}{U}. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 5 or greater or spells with {X} in their mana costs. {U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer (woe) 217
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298

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Recursion

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Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Death Denied (plst) MM2-76
Flood of Recollection

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.

Sorcery
Flood of Recollection (cmr) 61

Recursion

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Removal

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Aberrant

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Trample Heavy Power Hammer — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Aberrant (40k) 86
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (otc) 92
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (dsc) 136
Disembowel

Destroy target creature with mana value X.

Instant
Disembowel (rvr) 74
Doomsday Confluence

Choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Each player sacrifices a nonartifact creature of their choice. • Create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace. • Each opponent discards a card.

Sorcery
Doomsday Confluence (who) 67
Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Dregs of Sorrow (c14) 143
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

Instant
March of Wretched Sorrow (neo) 111
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.)

Sorcery
Primal Might (scd) 204
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.)

Sorcery
Profane Command (scd) 99
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (dsc) 90
Ravener

Flash Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) When this creature enters, target creature attacks target opponent this turn if able.

Creature
Ravener (40k) 138
Spell Burst

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell with mana value X.

Instant
Spell Burst (tsr) 88
Stolen by the Fae

Return target creature with mana value X to its owner's hand. You create X 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying.

Sorcery
Stolen by the Fae (j25) 369
Sultai Charm

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Sultai Charm (dmc) 168
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.

Instant
Syncopate (inr) 89
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.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122

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Tokens

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Termagant Swarm

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Death Frenzy — When this creature dies, create a number of 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Termagant Swarm (40k) 99

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Deck Info

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0 mana - 8 cards
28 pips - 21 cards
26 mana - 23 cards
21 pips - 15 cards
25 mana - 22 cards
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0 mana - 8 cards
34 pips - 32 cards
29 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 5 cards
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