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Commander

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Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 5 or greater or spells with
in their mana costs.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Legendary Creature - Scout Vedalken
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer (soc) 334

Commander

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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 (soc) 124
Capricopian
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then you may reselect which player this creature is attacking. Only the player this creature is attacking may activate this ability and only during the declare attackers step. (It can't attack its controller.)
Creature - Hydra Goat
Capricopian (c20) 58
Feral Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.
Creature - Beast Hydra
Feral Hydra (j22) 658
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 (soc) 272
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
Managorger Hydra
Trample
Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Hydra
Managorger Hydra (blc) 230
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 (soc) 284
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 - Hydra
Protean Hydra (m11) 194
Stumpsquall Hydra
When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among it and any number of commanders.
Creature - Hydra
Stumpsquall Hydra (cmr) 367
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.
Legendary 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 - Hydra
Vastwood Hydra (c20) 194
Warden of the Grove
At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, it endures X, where X is the number of counters on this creature. (Put X +1/+1 counters on the creature that entered or create an X/X white Spirit creature token.)
Creature - Hydra
Warden of the Grove (tdm) 166
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 - Hydra
Wildwood Scourge (fdn) 236
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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Blue Sun's Zenith
Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
Breakthrough
Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.
Sorcery
Breakthrough (2x2) 41
Drown in Dreams
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target player draws X cards.
• Target player mills twice X cards.
Instant
Drown in Dreams (m3c) 181
Enshrined Memories
Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Sorcery
Enshrined Memories (bok) 124
Extraordinary Journey
When this enchantment enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 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 - Plant Hydra
Genesis Hydra (otc) 193
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 (soc) 315
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 - Hydra
Lifeblood Hydra (soc) 274
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) 210
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
.
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.
Legendary Creature - Bird Hydra
The Goose Mother (soc) 312
The Great Henge
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
: Add
. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
The Great Henge (cmm) 294

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Enchantment

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Lattice Library
This enchantment enters with X study counters on it.
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of study counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Lattice Library (soc) 40
Springleaf Parade
When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.)
Creature tokens you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment
Springleaf Parade (ecc) 19

Enchantment

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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 (trk) 279
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (sos) 254
Fabled Passage
, 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 (msc) 242
Field of Ruin
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.
Land
Field of Ruin (ltc) 308
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (trk) 325
Hedge Maze
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Forest
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 319
Karn's Bastion
: Add
.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Land
Karn's Bastion (eoc) 163
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 (m3c) 353
Misty Rainforest
, 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
Polluted Delta
, 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 (mh3) 224
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (h1r) 40
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (msc) 260
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (hoc) 212
Scalding Tarn
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Sodden Verdure
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Forest
Sodden Verdure (msc) 267
Urza's Cave
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land - Urza's Cave
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Urza's Mine
: Add
. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add
instead.
Land - Mine Urza's
Urza's Mine (m3c) 401
Urza's Power Plant
: Add
. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add
instead.
Land - Power-Plant Urza's
Urza's Power Plant (m3c) 402
Urza's Tower
: Add
. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Power-Plant, add
instead.
Land - Tower Urza's
Urza's Tower (m3c) 403
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (soc) 420
Willowrush Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.
Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 270
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Wooded Foothills
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 236

Land

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Protection

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Change of Plans
Each of X target creatures you control connive. You may have any number of them phase out. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Instant
Change of Plans (ncc) 24
Gridlock
Tap X target nonland permanents.
Instant
Gridlock (gtc) 36
Lost in the Maze
Flash
When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.
Enchantment
Lost in the Maze (mkm) 64
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) 61
Mistcutter Hydra
This spell can't be countered.
Haste, protection from blue
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Hydra
Mistcutter Hydra (ths) 162
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 (soc) 286

Protection

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Ramp

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Astral Cornucopia
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.
: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Astral Cornucopia (soc) 342
Awaken the Woods
Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)
Sorcery
Awaken the Woods (bro) 170
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 (soc) 270
Kamahl's Druidic Vow
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Look at the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of land and/or legendary permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Legendary Sorcery
Kamahl's Druidic Vow (dom) 166
Open the Way
X can't be greater than the number of players in the game.
Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
Open the Way (soc) 280
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 (m3c) 250

Ramp

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Removal

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Aether Tide
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X creature cards.
Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Aether Tide (exo) 27
Awakened Awareness
Enchant artifact or creature
When this Aura enters, put X +1/+1 counters on enchanted permanent.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has base power and toughness 1/1.
Enchantment - Aura
Awakened Awareness (neo) 47
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
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 (soc) 192
Displacement Wave
Return all nonland permanents with mana value X or less to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Displacement Wave (ori) 55
Disrupting Shoal
You may exile a blue card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell if its mana value is X.
Instant - Arcane
Disrupting Shoal (uma) 51
Distorting Wake
Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Distorting Wake (c14) 107
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 (m20) 172
Hurricane
Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.
Sorcery
Hurricane (plst) 10E-270
Spinning Wheel Kick
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Spinning Wheel Kick (neo) 207
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 (soc) 288
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 (tmc) 54

Removal

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Sorcery

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Celestial Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may choose a creature type and behold two creatures of that type.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If this spell's additional cost was paid and the revealed card is the chosen type, put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.
Sorcery
Celestial Reunion (ecl) 170
Mathemagics
Target player draws 2ˣ cards. (2⁰ = 1, 2¹ = 2, 2² = 4, 2³ = 8, 2⁴ = 16, 2⁵ = 32, and so on.)
Sorcery
Mathemagics (sos) 58
Procrastinate
Tap target creature. Put twice X stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Sorcery
Procrastinate (sos) 64

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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 (fdn) 216
Hooded Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Morph

As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Snake Hydra
Hooded Hydra (mkc) 171
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 (plst) C13-162
Riptide Replicator
As this artifact enters, choose a color and a creature type.
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.
,
: Create an X/X creature token of the chosen color and type, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Artifact
Riptide Replicator (ons) 309

Tokens

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Tutor

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Ecological Appreciation
Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names that each have mana value X or less and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest onto the battlefield. Exile Ecological Appreciation.
Sorcery
Ecological Appreciation (stx) 128

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Hey all! I'd like to introduce my first deck on Archidekt - Too Much Exploring. This is my real life Simic deck for my 32 Deck challenge. \n\nTroyan is a fun ramp card as he only works on large spells or X spells. I saw that and I thought, \"A lot of my hydras have X in their mana cost.\" \n\nAs I was putting the deck together, I kept finding fun cards in my collection that would work with Troyan's ability that just didn't fit in my other decks. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spinning Wheel Kick"}},{"insert":" is my favorite! And Mathemagics gave me a great way to take someone out of the game!\n\nI hope you all find this Kindred deck interesting and want to try it out for yourselves!\n"}]}
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