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X Hydras Matter
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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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Clones

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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

Clones

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Counters

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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 (ima) 197
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 (jmp) 395
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
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 (m10) 200
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
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 (m14) 198
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 (aer) 140

Counters

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Creature

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Stonecoil Serpent

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

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (eld) 235

Creature

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Draw

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Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (tsr) 356
Blue Sun's Zenith

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

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (c13) 32
Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Elemental Bond (c17) 148
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 (pwar) 51p
Gadwick, the Wizened

When Gadwick enters, draw X cards. Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature
Gadwick, the Wizened (eld) 48
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 (ima) 163
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (akh) 65
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (clb) 831
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (c14) 129
Thassa's Intervention

Choose one — • Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

Instant
Thassa's Intervention (thb) 72
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
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 (ktk) 211

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Evasion

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Herald of Secret Streams

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

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (xln) 59

Evasion

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Finisher

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Capture of Jingzhou

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Capture of Jingzhou (cmm) 79
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (som) 61

Finisher

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (ncc) 398
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (und) 95
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (und) 89
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (otc) 305
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (ktk) 238
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (40k) 295
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 282
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 (thb) 245
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 (m20) 254
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 (m21) 254
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (c19) 287

Land

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Protection

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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

Protection

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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 (ori) 169
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 (c16) 146
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m15) 173
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (40k) 214
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 (mic) 140
Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead. {3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Incubation Druid (ncc) 296
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 (uma) 171
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (10e) 274
Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2. 0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield. −6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Steward of Elements (akh) 204
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (10e) 288
Rhonas's Monument

Green creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

Artifact
Rhonas's Monument (akh) 236
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (c13) 258
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Talisman of Curiosity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232
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 (mh1) 189
Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (rna) 149
Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.) Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Zendikar Resurgent (ogw) 147

Ramp

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Recursion

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Wildest Dreams

Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Wildest Dreams.

Sorcery
Wildest Dreams (kld) 174

Recursion

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Removal

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (cma) 30
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (afc) 152
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 (dd2) 28
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (ema) 43
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 (ths) 46
Entrancing Melody

Gain control of target creature with mana value X.

Sorcery
Entrancing Melody (xln) 55
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
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
Logic Knot

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Instant
Logic Knot (mma) 51
Mass Manipulation

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Mass Manipulation (rna) 42
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (ima) 177
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dtk) 65
Putrefy

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

Instant
Putrefy (mm3) 179
Reclamation Sage

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

Creature
Reclamation Sage (c18) 159
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
The Great Aurora

Each player shuffles all cards from their hand and all permanents they own into their library, then draws that many cards. Each player may put any number of land cards from their hand onto the battlefield. Exile The Great Aurora.

Sorcery
The Great Aurora (plst) ORI-179
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

Removal

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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 (wot) 52
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 (jou) 128
Primal Vigor

If one or more tokens would be created, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Primal Vigor (wot) 59

Tokens

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Tutor

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Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (m10) 91
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drift of Phantasms (rav) 46

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Untap

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Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38

Untap

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Maybeboard

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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
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
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
Nyxborn Hydra

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

Creature Enchantment
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
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

Maybeboard

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