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Presenting the PINNACLE of evolution, Zaxara, the Exemplary!
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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

Commander

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Instant

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Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sld) 1170
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
Gang Up

Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost. You choose the value of X.) Destroy target creature with power X or less.

Instant
Gang Up (bbd) 47
Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (uma) 201
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (lcc) 270
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Pounce

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Pounce (j22) 707
Ram Through

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Instant
Ram Through (cmm) 314
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.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (one) 190

Instant

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Artifact

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Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Artifact
Anvil of Bogardan (vis) 141
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (p30m) 1F
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
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (ncc) 368
Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Lifecrafter's Bestiary (ncc) 370
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
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ncc) 379
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 (lcc) 314
The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. {T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Artifact
The Great Henge (cmm) 294

Artifact

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (zne) 21
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Deathcap Glade

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

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
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 (lcc) 328
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (ncc) 400
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 402
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (lcc) 336
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rex) 22
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (cmm) 1015
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 (ncc) 419
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 398
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (ncc) 436
Tropical Island

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)

Land
Tropical Island (olgc) 2019
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dmr) 261
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261

Land

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Creature

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (cmr) 365
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
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.

Creature
Benevolent Hydra (j22) 38
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 (cm2) 152
Fathom Mage

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.) Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on this creature, you may draw a card.

Creature
Fathom Mage (ncc) 339
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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) 330
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
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
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
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (scd) 208
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
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
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
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
Stumpsquall Hydra

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

Creature
Stumpsquall Hydra (cmr) 367
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.

Creature
The Goose Mother (woe) 204
Thunderous Snapper

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Creature
Thunderous Snapper (eld) 215
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
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
Vorel of the Hull Clade

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Creature
Vorel of the Hull Clade (ncc) 357
Whiptongue Hydra

Reach When this creature enters, destroy all creatures with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature destroyed this way.

Creature
Whiptongue Hydra (nec) 134
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

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Sorcery

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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
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.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
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 (lcc) 150
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (lcc) 241
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 (war) 51
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
Three Visits

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

Sorcery
Three Visits (cmm) 913

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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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 (jmp) 29
Court of Garenbrig

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. Then if you're the monarch, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Court of Garenbrig (woc) 25
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (sld) 406
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
Up the Beanstalk

When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195
Virtue of Strength

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

Enchantment

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Maybeboard

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Icy Blast

Tap X target creatures. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Instant
Icy Blast (ktk) 42
Killing Wave

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

Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111
Lifetap

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Lifetap (30a) 358
Prosperity

Each player draws X cards.

Sorcery
Prosperity (c13) 54
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (lcc) 166
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (woc) 104
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (plst) AER-140

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Spontaneous Mutation

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Spontaneous Mutation (cmr) 100
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 415
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
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

Creature
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood (lcc) 8

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Tokens & Extras

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Ape

Creature Token
Ape (ttsr) 10
Food

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.

Artifact Token
Food (tunf) 11
Hydra

Creature Token
Hydra (tznr) 9
Hydra

Creature Token
Hydra (tdmc) 10

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0 mana - 8 cards
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18 mana - 17 cards
10 pips - 9 cards
17 mana - 14 cards
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0 mana - 8 cards
69 pips - 48 cards
36 mana - 34 cards
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9 mana - 6 cards
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