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Gargos: Another Head for Hydra
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $510.54
Salt sum: 32.92
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Commander

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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, Vicious Watcher fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Gargos, Vicious Watcher (m20) 172

Commander

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Gargos Trigger

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Archdruid's Charm

Choose one — • Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. • Exile target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Archdruid's Charm (mkm) 151
Hunter's Insight

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

Instant
Hunter's Insight (cmr) 232
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 (iko) 170
Ruinous Intrusion

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Instant
Ruinous Intrusion (mic) 28
Seedling Charm

Choose one — • Return target Aura attached to a creature to its owner's hand. • Regenerate target green creature. • Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Instant
Seedling Charm (mir) 240
Solidarity of Heroes

Strive — This spell costs {1}{G} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target creatures. Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each of them.

Instant
Solidarity of Heroes (cm2) 144

Gargos Trigger

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Ramp

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Emerald Medallion

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Emerald Medallion (mh3) 291
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
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
Karametra's Acolyte

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Creature
Karametra's Acolyte (ths) 160
Nissa's Pilgrimage

Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.

Sorcery
Nissa's Pilgrimage (c17) 155
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
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 (jmp) 429
Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (bbd) 213
Trailtracker Scout

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you expend 8, return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (You expend 8 as you spend your eighth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Trailtracker Scout (blc) 35
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (afc) 174

Ramp

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Counters

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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
Visions of Dominance

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on it. Flashback {8}{G}{G}. This spell costs {X} less to cast this way, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Visions of Dominance (mic) 37

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Hydra

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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. Genesis Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Genesis Hydra (plst) M15-176
Goldvein Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste Goldvein Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Goldvein Hydra dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

Creature
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 167
Heroes' Bane

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. {2}{G}{G}: Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is its power.

Creature
Heroes' Bane (c20) 175
Hooded Hydra

Hooded Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hooded Hydra dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it. Morph {3}{G}{G} As Hooded Hydra is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hooded Hydra (c19) 172
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 Hydra Broodmaster becomes monstrous, create X X/X green Hydra creature tokens.

Creature
Hydra Broodmaster (c21) 194
Hydra Omnivore

Whenever Hydra Omnivore deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.

Creature
Hydra Omnivore (c18) 153
Kalonian Hydra

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

Creature
Kalonian Hydra (plst) M14-181
Lifeblood Hydra

Trample Lifeblood Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Lifeblood Hydra dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Lifeblood Hydra (cma) 124
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Managorger Hydra.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (c21) 199
Mistcutter Hydra

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

Creature
Mistcutter Hydra (ths) 162
Neverwinter Hydra

As Neverwinter Hydra 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
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 Nyxborn Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Nyxborn Hydra and has reach and trample.

Creature Enchantment
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
Primordial Hydra

Primordial Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on Primordial Hydra. Primordial Hydra has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Primordial Hydra (m13) 183
Rampant Rejuvenator

Rampant Rejuvenator enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When Rampant Rejuvenator dies, search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is Rampant Rejuvenator's power, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rampant Rejuvenator (nec) 28
Steelbane Hydra

Steelbane Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {2}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Steelbane Hydra: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Steelbane Hydra (eld) 322
Ulvenwald Hydra

Reach Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When Ulvenwald Hydra enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Ulvenwald Hydra (jmp) 439
Voracious Hydra

Trample Voracious Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Voracious Hydra enters, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Voracious Hydra. • Voracious Hydra fights target creature you don't control.

Creature
Voracious Hydra (m20) 200
Whiptongue Hydra

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

Creature
Whiptongue Hydra (c18) 36

Hydra

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (mic) 133
Bushwhack

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Bushwhack (bro) 174
Collective Resistance

Escalate {G} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Collective Resistance (mh3) 147

Removal

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Draw

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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 (afc) 159
Greater Good

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

Enchantment
Greater Good (afc) 160
Hunter's Prowess

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

Sorcery
Hunter's Prowess (c17) 152
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 (mic) 141
Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Momentous Fall (jmp) 411
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 (afc) 168
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (afc) 170
Soul's Majesty

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

Sorcery
Soul's Majesty (c17) 158
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

Draw

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Land

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig 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
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mid) 384
Khalni Ambush

Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
Miren, the Moaning Well

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Land
Miren, the Moaning Well (sok) 163
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.) Mosswort Bridge 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 (afc) 251
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (mic) 177
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (mic) 179
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
Tangled Florahedron

Creature
Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211
Temple of the False God

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

Land
Temple of the False God (mic) 186
Vastwood Fortification

Instant
Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket (znr) 216Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket (znr) 216
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (c21) 81

Land

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Wrath

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Monstrous Onslaught

Monstrous Onslaught deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control as you cast this spell.

Sorcery
Monstrous Onslaught (cmr) 244
Season of Gathering

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn. {P}{P} — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type. {P}{P}{P} — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Season of Gathering (blb) 192
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

+2: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon deals 3 damage to any target. −X: Exile each permanent with mana value X or less that's one or more colors. −10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (m21) 1

Wrath

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Evasion

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Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (c19) 175
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

Evasion

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Mana Flare

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Bighorner Rancher

Vigilance {T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. Sacrifice Bighorner Rancher: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among other creatures you control.

Creature
Bighorner Rancher (pip) 73
Boundless Realms

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Boundless Realms (m13) 162
Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}. +1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land. −8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Who Shakes the World (war) 169
Traverse the Outlands

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Traverse the Outlands (plst) C17-34
Virtue of Strength

Enchantment
Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth (woe) 197
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 (plst) OGW-147

Mana Flare

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Finisher

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Concordant Crossroads

All creatures have haste.

Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 141

Finisher

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Protection

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Sheltering Word

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Sheltering Word (avr) 192
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
Smuggler's Surprise

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand. + {4}{G} — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield. + {1} — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Smuggler's Surprise (otj) 180
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent 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
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
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

Protection

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