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Helga of the Hydra
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Est deck cost: $641.55
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Commander

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Helga, Skittish Seer

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.

Creature
Helga, Skittish Seer (blb) 217

Commander

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Land

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Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (inr) 277
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 (drc) 154
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (dsc) 276
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 289
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (drc) 160
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Overflowing Basin

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

Land
Overflowing Basin (drc) 165
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (clu) 246
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Spara's Headquarters

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

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 290
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (drc) 179

Land

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Removal

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Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Damning Verdict

Destroy all creatures with no counters on them.

Sorcery
Damning Verdict (ncc) 15
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
Khalni Ambush

Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
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
Mystic Snake

Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell.

Creature
Mystic Snake (a25) 208
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
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
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
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
Wave Goodbye

Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (lcc) 79

Removal

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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. {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
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
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {3}{G}{G}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Creature
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower (otj) 157
Byrke, Long Ear of the Law

Vigilance When Byrke enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Byrke, Long Ear of the Law (blb) 380
Fangs of Kalonia

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

Sorcery
Fangs of Kalonia (mh3) 153
Forgotten Ancient

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

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (j25) 147
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 (blc) 226
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
Ornery Tumblewagg

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature. Saddle 2 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Ornery Tumblewagg (otj) 171
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
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
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
Quilled Greatwurm (fdn) 111
Railway Brawler

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Railway Brawler (otj) 175
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 (blc) 260
Surrak and Goreclaw

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Surrak and Goreclaw (mom) 337
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
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
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
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control. {G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on up to two target creatures and/or artifacts you control.

Creature
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor (fdn) 126

Counters

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Protection

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Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
Mutational Advantage

Permanents you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to those permanents this turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Mutational Advantage (pip) 111
Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mkc) 185

Protection

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Tokens

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Drowner of Truth

Creature
Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle (mh3) 253Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle (mh3) 253
Polukranos Reborn

Creature
Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin (mom) 200Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin (mom) 200
The Skullspore Nexus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures. {2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Artifact
The Skullspore Nexus (lci) 212

Tokens

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Draw

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Apex Devastator

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

Creature
Apex Devastator (cmr) 217
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Chulane, Teller of Tales (mkc) 202
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Genesis Hydra

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Genesis Hydra (otc) 193
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (mb2) 207
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
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 (fdn) 226
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
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
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

Draw

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Ramp

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Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (rvr) 133
Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
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
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 167
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Creature
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (bro) 185
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin (cmm) 339
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
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
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Creature
Noble Hierarch (plst) MM2-151
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
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
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

Ramp

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Untap

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Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271

Untap

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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 (lcc) 158

Evasion

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Brokers Ascendancy

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.

Enchantment
Brokers Ascendancy (snc) 170
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 (fdn) 216
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 (pip) 200
Karametra, God of Harvests

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green and white is less than seven, Karametra isn't a creature. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Enchantment
Karametra, God of Harvests (plst) BNG-148
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
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (plst) WAR-232
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
Nulldrifter

When you cast this spell, draw two cards. Flying Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Nulldrifter (mh3) 13
Saltcrusted Steppe

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Land
Saltcrusted Steppe (tsr) 283
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
Thunderous Snapper

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

Creature
Thunderous Snapper (eld) 215
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. {G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Creature
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus (one) 195

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

7 pips - 6 cards
18 mana - 17 cards
23 pips - 19 cards
25 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
87 pips - 59 cards
38 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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