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Hail Hydra
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $936.91
Salt Sum: 38.53
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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 (dmc) 176
1

Board Wipe

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Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (c14) 136
1
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (woc) 102
1

Card Advantage

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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
1
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 (war) 51
1
Garruk's Uprising

When Garruk's Uprising enters the battlefield, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (They can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker they're attacking.) Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (ncc) 292
1
Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time. Flying, trample Hydroid Krasis enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hydroid Krasis (2x2) 228
1
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
1
Outrageous Robbery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.

Instant
Outrageous Robbery (mkm) 97
1
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (2x2) 62
1
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (c15) 108
1
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
1
Up the Beanstalk

When Up the Beanstalk enters the battlefield and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195
1

Creature

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Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered. You may have Altered Ego enter the battlefield 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
1

Interaction

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Aberrant

Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Trample Heavy Power Hammer — Whenever Aberrant deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Aberrant (40k) 86
1
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
1
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
1
Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant
Condescend (j22) 282
1
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 (clb) 716
1
Distorting Wake

Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Distorting Wake (c14) 107
1
Dominate

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less.

Instant
Dominate (c15) 92
1
Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Dregs of Sorrow (c14) 143
1
Entrancing Melody

Gain control of target creature with mana value X.

Sorcery
Entrancing Melody (xln) 55
1
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
1
Mass Manipulation

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Mass Manipulation (rna) 42
1
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 (ncc) 256
1
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
1
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 (vow) 83
1
Voracious Hydra

Trample Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield, 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
1

Land

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Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (chk) 273
1
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
1
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dmc) 204
1
Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 262
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: 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 (m21) 246
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (2xm) 381
3
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (pana) 242
3
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
1
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
1
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 (plst) THS-223
1
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
1
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
1
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dmc) 227
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (neo) 297
3
Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248
1
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261
1
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259
1

Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
1
Termagant Swarm

Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Death Frenzy — When Termagant Swarm dies, create a number of 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens equal to Termagant Swarm's power.

Creature
Termagant Swarm (40k) 99
1
Tyrant Guard

Ravenous (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Shieldwall — Sacrifice Tyrant Guard: Creatures you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Tyrant Guard (40k) 103
1

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
1
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
1
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (plst) CN2-176
1
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (2x2) 138
1
Elementalist's Palette

Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, put two charge counters on Elementalist's Palette. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Elementalist's Palette. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Artifact
Elementalist's Palette (c21) 76
1
Garruk Wildspeaker

+1: Untap two target lands. −1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Planeswalker
Garruk Wildspeaker (lrw) 213
1
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
1
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
1
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
1
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
1
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, 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
1
Skyshroud Claim

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

Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (bbd) 213
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 249
1
Sporocyst

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

Creature
Sporocyst (40k) 98
1
Three Visits

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

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
1

Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
1

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
1
Doubling Cube

{3}, {T}: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.

Artifact
Doubling Cube (plst) 10E-321
1
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 (2xm) 164
1
Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Parallel Lives (isd) 199
1
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
1
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
1

Tutor

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Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
1
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
1
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 the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Genesis Hydra (nec) 118
1
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
1
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (cmr) 156
1

Wincon

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (plst) SOM-61
1
Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (war) 160
1
Kalonian Hydra

Trample Kalonian Hydra enters the battlefield 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
1
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
1
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 (2x2) 292
1

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