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Hydra Affinity
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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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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

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Recursion

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Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

Creature
Muldrotha, the Gravetide (2x2) 258
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Urborg Repossession

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life. If this spell was kicked, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Urborg Repossession (dmu) 114

Recursion

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Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}{G}, {T}: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact Enchantment
Bow of Nylea (plst) THS-153
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 (jmp) 29
Corpsejack Menace

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

Creature
Corpsejack Menace (plst) IMA-197
Death's Presence

Whenever a creature you control dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the power of the creature that died.

Enchantment
Death's Presence (mic) 137
Fractal Harness

When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it and attach this Equipment to it. Whenever equipped creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it. Equip {2}

Artifact
Fractal Harness (c21) 61
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.)

Creature
Hungering Hydra (c20) 177
Kalonian Hydra

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Creature
Kalonian Hydra (moc) 305
Managorger Hydra

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

Creature
Managorger Hydra (moc) 307
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}.)

Creature
Neverwinter Hydra (afc) 41
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.

Creature
Primordial Hydra (j22) 712
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.

Creature
Protean Hydra (m11) 194
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.

Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (rna) 207
Stonecoil Serpent

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

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (cmm) 976
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.

Creature
Vastwood Hydra (c20) 194
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Trample, haste If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.

Creature
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider (khm) 199

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Land

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Ancient Ziggurat

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Land
Ancient Ziggurat (plst) CON-141
Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Land
Castle Garenbrig (eld) 240
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Darkmoss Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (mh2) 245
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (ncc) 402
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (woe) 266
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 263
Mistvault Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (brc) 189
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j22) 820
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 272
Tanglepool Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Tanglepool Bridge (mh2) 257
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (plst) MRD-285
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (ncc) 443
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211
Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259

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Removal

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Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant
Condescend (j22) 282
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
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.

Creature
Steelbane Hydra (ncc) 313
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 (vow) 83
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.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (j22) 806

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Counters Protection

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Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Reyhan enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever a creature you control dies or is put into the command zone, if it had one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on target creature. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan (cm2) 13
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.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237

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Protection

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Encroaching Mycosynth

Nonland permanents you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for permanent spells you control and nonland permanent cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Artifact
Encroaching Mycosynth (one) 47
Luxior, Giada's Gift

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each counter on it. Equipped permanent isn't a planeswalker and is a creature in addition to its other types. (Loyalty abilities can still be activated.) Equip planeswalker {1} Equip {3}

Artifact
Luxior, Giada's Gift (snc) 240
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.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279

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 (cmm) 283
Hangarback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hangarback Walker (cmm) 951
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.

Creature
Hooded Hydra (c19) 172
Ochre Jelly

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Split — When this creature dies, if it had two or more +1/+1 counters on it, create a token that's a copy of it at the beginning of the next end step. The token enters with half that many +1/+1 counters on it, rounded down.

Creature
Ochre Jelly (afr) 196
Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Tend the Pests (stx) 242

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Blue Sun's Zenith

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

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
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 (2x2) 228
Ingenious Prodigy

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Ingenious Prodigy (woe) 56
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 211
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 (2x2) 292
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gains vigilance and reach. −2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as it remains exiled, you may cast it if it's a creature spell.

Planeswalker
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds (clb) 838

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Ramp

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Animist's Awakening

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (c20) 166
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Awaken the Woods

Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)

Sorcery
Awaken the Woods (bro) 170
Elementalist's Palette

Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, put two charge counters on this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Artifact
Elementalist's Palette (c21) 76
Elven Chorus

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Elven Chorus (ltr) 160
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191
Inga and Esika

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell." Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.

Creature
Inga and Esika (mom) 229
Mycosynth Golem

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Artifact creature spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Mycosynth Golem (plst) 5DN-137
Nexos

Strategic Coordinator — Basic lands you control have "{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}."

Creature
Nexos (40k) 95
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
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
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) 320
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) +2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life. −3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. −8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge (war) 275
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 (plst) MH1-189
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (dmr) 239

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Tutor

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Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
Invasion of Ikoria

Battle
Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (dmr) 185

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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.

Creature
Altered Ego (soi) 241
Asceticism

Creatures you control have hexproof. {1}{G}: Regenerate target creature. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Enchantment
Asceticism (plst) SOM-110
Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (plst) KHM-251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (plst) KHM-251
Benevolent Hydra

Benevolent Hydra 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 Benevolent Hydra: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.

Creature
Benevolent Hydra (j22) 38
Bottomless Vault

This land enters tapped. You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {B} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Bottomless Vault (5ed) 411
Broodlord

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Brood Telepathy — When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures you control.

Creature
Broodlord (40k) 89
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Contagion Clasp (onc) 129
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (cmm) 944
Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (soi) 200
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 84
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (plst) KHM-254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (plst) KHM-254
Darksteel Forge

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Artifact
Darksteel Forge (2xm) 248
Darksteel Monolith

Indestructible Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a colorless spell you cast from your hand.

Artifact
Darksteel Monolith (cmm) 743
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Dictate of Erebos

Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (cmm) 948
Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Evolution Sage (onc) 108
Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Experimental Augury (one) 49
Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. {T}: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (cmm) 894
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
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.

Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (cmm) 289
Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (a25) 58
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.

Creature
Gargos, Vicious Watcher (m20) 172
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.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (scd) 185
Garruk, Savage Herald

+1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it on the bottom of your library. −2: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. −7: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked."

Planeswalker
Garruk, Savage Herald (m21) 336
Gelatinous Genesis

Create X X/X green Ooze creature tokens.

Sorcery
Gelatinous Genesis (2xm) 169
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 (moc) 298
Ghost Lantern

Artifact
Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit (clb) 128
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.

Creature
Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager (znr) 223
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
Grim Discovery

Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Grim Discovery (plst) DDR-51
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Gyre Sage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Gyre Sage (moc) 300
Herald of Secret Streams

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (xln) 59
Hollow Trees

This land enters tapped. You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {G} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Hollow Trees (5ed) 418
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 this creature becomes monstrous, create X X/X green Hydra creature tokens.

Creature
Hydra Broodmaster (c21) 194
Hydra Omnivore

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.

Creature
Hydra Omnivore (c18) 153
Hydra's Growth

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Hydra's Growth (j22) 89
Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (mm2) 49
Ironscale Hydra

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

Creature
Ironscale Hydra (thb) 296
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 this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Kodama of the West Tree

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 199
Kodama's Reach

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.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 300
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.

Creature
Lifeblood Hydra (cmm) 303
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Mass Manipulation

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Mass Manipulation (rna) 42
Mistcutter Hydra

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

Creature
Mistcutter Hydra (ths) 162
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (onc) 121
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (moc) 415
Mycosynth Lattice

All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types. All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless. Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.

Artifact
Mycosynth Lattice (plst) BBD-241
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Nature's Spiral

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Nature's Spiral (dom) 175
Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, Keen-Eyed (thb) 185
Nyxbloom Ancient

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

Creature Enchantment
Nyxbloom Ancient (thb) 190
One with the Kami

Flash Enchant creature you control Whenever enchanted creature or another modified creature you control dies, create X 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens, where X is that creature's power. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Enchantment
One with the Kami (nec) 27
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (cmm) 1017
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 309
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire (mom) 198
Personal Tutor

Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sorcery
Personal Tutor (cmm) 110
Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature. Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Creature Enchantment
Phenax, God of Deception (plst) BNG-152
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Phyrexian Hydra

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

Creature
Phyrexian Hydra (mbs) 85
Polukranos, Unchained

Polukranos enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead. If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. {1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature. Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.

Creature
Polukranos, Unchained (thb) 224
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 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
Prowling Serpopard

This spell can't be countered. Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Creature
Prowling Serpopard (j22) 713
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Reshape

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape (plst) 2XM-64
Return from Extinction

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Return from Extinction (mh1) 104
Rhystic Tutor

Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rhystic Tutor (pcy) 77
Road of Return

Choose one — • Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. • Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Road of Return (c19) 34
Runadi, Behemoth Caller

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, that creature enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its mana value minus 4. Creatures you control with three or more +1/+1 counters on them have haste. {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Runadi, Behemoth Caller (j22) 44
Shaman of Forgotten Ways

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells. Formidable — {9}{G}{G}, {T}: Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures they control. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Creature
Shaman of Forgotten Ways (dtk) 204
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.)

Instant
Silkguard (nec) 29
Slurrk, All-Ingesting

Slurrk enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Slurrk or another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that has a +1/+1 counter on it. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Slurrk, All-Ingesting (moc) 312
Smell Fear

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Target creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Sorcery
Smell Fear (mh2) 173
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (znc) 100
Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Defender Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sporocyst (40k) 98
Spread the Sickness

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Spread the Sickness (mm2) 98
Steady Progress

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Draw a card.

Instant
Steady Progress (plst) MM2-58
Sword of Truth and Justice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Truth and Justice (mh1) 229
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
Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Land
Terrain Generator (clb) 926
Tervigon

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Trample Spawn Termagants — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens.

Creature
Tervigon (40k) 100
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 (mid) 112
Thirsting Roots

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Thirsting Roots (one) 185
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
Titania's Command

Choose two — • Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. • Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. • Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Titania's Command (bro) 194
Titanic Brawl

This spell costs {1} less to cast if it targets a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Titanic Brawl (j22) 735
Unnatural Restoration

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Unnatural Restoration (one) 191
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314
Virtue of Strength

Enchantment
Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth (woe) 197
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.

Creature
Voracious Hydra (m20) 200
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49
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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Forest Dryad

(This creature is affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land Token
Forest Dryad (tbro) 3
Hydra

Creature Token
Hydra (tc20) 12
Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token
Pest (tstx) 5
Snake

Creature Token
Snake (tdmc) 11

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