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Commander

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Zaxara, the Exemplary
Deathtouch
: Add two mana of any one color.
Whenever you cast a spell with
in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare Hydra
Zaxara, the Exemplary (sld) 1333

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Counters

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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.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Creature - Hydra
Benevolent Hydra (sld) 1889
Branching Evolution
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
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 - Fungus
Corpsejack Menace (tmc) 56
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 - Insect
Duskshell Crawler (fic) 301
Gnarlid Colony
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
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 - Beast
Gnarlid Colony (fdn) 224
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.
Legendary Creature - Horror Hydra
Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager (znr) 223
Hardened Scales
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Enchantment
Hardened Scales (fic) 307
Host of the Hereafter
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, put its counters on up to one target creature you control.
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Host of the Hereafter (tdm) 193
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 - Hydra
Hungering Hydra (c20) 177
Innkeeper's Talent
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
: Level 2
Permanents you control with counters on them have ward
.
: Level 3
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.
Enchantment - Class
Innkeeper's Talent (slp) 45
Invigorating Surge
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.
Instant
Invigorating Surge (j25) 673
Managorger Hydra
Trample
Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Hydra
Managorger Hydra (sld) 306
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
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Hydra
Neverwinter Hydra (afc) 41
Nyxborn Hydra
Bestow
(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 - Hydra
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
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 - Hydra
Primordial Hydra (sld) 1330
Quilled Greatwurm
Trample
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.)
You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.
Creature - Wurm
Quilled Greatwurm (fdn) 339
Simic Ascendancy
: 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 (sld) 1832
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 - Hydra
Vastwood Hydra (c20) 194
Wren's Run Hydra
Reach
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Reinforce X—
(
, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature.)
Creature - Hydra
Wren's Run Hydra (mh2) 183

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Draw

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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 (m3c) 185
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 (wot) 53
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 - Plant Hydra
Genesis Hydra (plst) M15-176
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) 284
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 - Beast Jellyfish Hydra
Hydroid Krasis (sld) 1332
Inspiring Call
Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Instant
Inspiring Call (fic) 310
Locke Cole
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Locke Cole deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Locke Cole (fin) 234
Mind Spring
Draw X cards.
Sorcery
Mind Spring (blb) 389
Notion Thief
Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.
Creature - Human Rogue
Notion Thief (pio) 235
Pull from Tomorrow
Draw X cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (fic) 269
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
Terrasymbiosis
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, you may draw that many cards. Do this only once each turn.
Enchantment
Terrasymbiosis (eoe) 312
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246
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
Zameck Guildmage
: This turn, each creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Elf
Zameck Guildmage (gtc) 209

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Land

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Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (clu) 275
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (fic) 382
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (fic) 388
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (fic) 390
Foreboding Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Foreboding Landscape (tdc) 365
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (fic) 482
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (fic) 403
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (fic) 479
Lair of the Hydra
If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
: Add
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.
Land
Lair of the Hydra (afr) 356
Opulent Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Opulent Palace (pip) 278
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (fic) 411
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (fic) 415
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (fic) 429
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fic) 480
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (pip) 517
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Malady (pip) 1048
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Mystery (fic) 436
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (eoe) 286
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (sld) 738
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (ltc) 377
Zagoth Triome
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp Forest
Zagoth Triome (iko) 313

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (sld) 1872
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (fic) 349
March of Swirling Mist
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 372
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (sld) 2096
Tyvar's Stand
Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It 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

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 (c20) 166
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fic) 334
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (fic) 483
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 (fic) 300
Goldvein Hydra
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
Creature - Hydra
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 167
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.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 392
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 - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 649
Nylea's Intervention
Choose one —
• Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.
Sorcery
Nylea's Intervention (prm) 79919
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (fic) 359
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (pip) 245
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (fic) 364
Torgal, A Fine Hound
Whenever you cast your first Human creature spell each turn, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Dog and/or Wolf you control.
: Add one mana of any color.
Legendary Creature - Wolf
Torgal, A Fine Hound (fin) 345
Ulvenwald Hydra
Reach
Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Hydra
Ulvenwald Hydra (sir) 222
Unbound Flourishing
Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains
, 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
, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Unbound Flourishing (sld) 1331

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Removal

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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
Blue Sun's Twilight
Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.
Sorcery
Blue Sun's Twilight (one) 43
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (mar) 9
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 (tdc) 149
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (sld) 1869
Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Vigilance
Hydra spells you cast cost
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.
Legendary Creature - Hydra
Gargos, Vicious Watcher (sld) 1329
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
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) 380
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (sta) 18
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 (otp) 32
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
Repulsive Mutation
Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
Instant
Repulsive Mutation (mkm) 227
Spectral Denial
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spectral Denial (tdm) 58
Steelbane Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Hydra Turtle
Steelbane Hydra (ncc) 313
Syncopate
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Syncopate (fin) 80
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 - Hydra
Voracious Hydra (sld) 1491

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Theft

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Garland, Royal Kidnapper
When Garland enters, target opponent becomes the monarch.
Whenever an opponent becomes the monarch, gain control of target creature that player controls for as long as they're the monarch.
Creatures you control but don't own get +2/+2 and can't be sacrificed.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Garland, Royal Kidnapper (fic) 442

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Tutor

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Uncage the Menagerie
Search your library for up to X creature cards with different names that each have mana value X, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Uncage the Menagerie (hou) 137

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Tokens & Extras

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Hydra
Creature Token - Hydra
Hydra (tznr) 9

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22 mana - 21 cards
14 pips - 12 cards
20 mana - 19 cards
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8 mana - 7 cards
59 pips - 46 cards
22 mana - 21 cards
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