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Gabe’s Zaxara X Spell
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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 (c20) 20

Commander

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Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cm2) 136
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
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 (eld) 172

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Counter Synergy

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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
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 (rtr) 152
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
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
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

Counter Synergy

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (2xm) 161
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 (e01) 62
Elementalist's Palette

Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, put two charge counters on this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Artifact
Elementalist's Palette (c21) 76
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m14) 169
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (ncc) 290
Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38
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 (gtc) 123
Hadana's Climb

Enchantment
Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca (rix) 158Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca (rix) 158
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
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.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 199
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 (c20) 180
Kruphix, God of Horizons

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green and blue is less than seven, Kruphix isn't a creature. You have no maximum hand size. If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Creature Enchantment
Kruphix, God of Horizons (plst) JOU-152
Mana Bloom

This enchantment enters with X charge counters on it. Remove a charge counter from this enchantment: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has no charge counters on it, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Mana Bloom (rtr) 130
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Nexos

Strategic Coordinator — Basic lands you control have "{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}."

Creature
Nexos (40k) 95
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 (thb) 188
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 (mat) 23
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (c19) 179
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
Sporocyst

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Defender Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sporocyst (40k) 98
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (c13) 174

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Draw/Advantage

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Colossal Majesty

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Colossal Majesty (afc) 154
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 (rna) 183
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
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 (cma) 124
Primal Empathy

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Enchantment
Primal Empathy (ncc) 348
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (c15) 108
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) 362
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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Token Generation

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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 {3}{G}{G} As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hooded Hydra (ktk) 136

Token Generation

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Interaction

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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
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (ddl) 69
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
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
Icy Blast

Tap X target creatures. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Instant
Icy Blast (ktk) 42
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant

Kurbis enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Kurbis: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to another target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant (mic) 27
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 {2} 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
Ochre Jelly

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Split — When this creature dies, if it had two or more +1/+1 counters on it, create a token that's a copy of it at the beginning of the next end step. The token enters with half that many +1/+1 counters on it, rounded down.

Creature
Ochre Jelly (afr) 330
Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Sorcery
Open into Wonder (znc) 34
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 (c20) 135
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 (m11) 194
Ravener

Flash Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) When this creature enters, target creature attacks target opponent this turn if able.

Creature
Ravener (40k) 138
Spell Burst

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell with mana value X.

Instant
Spell Burst (tsr) 88
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
Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Syncopate (ody) 103
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 (pm20) 200s

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Win Con

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Clamavus

Proclamator Hailer — Each creature you control gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Clamavus (40k) 90
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 (ncc) 292
Herald of Secret Streams

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

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (xln) 59
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
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
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 {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
Nimbus Swimmer

Flying This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Nimbus Swimmer (ddo) 54
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 (m12) 189
Stonecoil Serpent

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

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (peld) 235★
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 (c20) 233

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (plst) AVR-225
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (c20) 265
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 (iko) 273
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (iko) 264
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c20) 286
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (ltc) 321
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (c20) 295
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (c20) 303
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (c19) 278
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (iko) 266
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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