Stumpsquall Hydra

When Stumpsquall Hydra enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among it and any number of commanders.

Feral Hydra

Feral Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Feral Hydra. Any player may activate this ability.

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 with X +1/+1 counters on it.

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.

Wren's Run Hydra

Reach
Wren's Run Hydra 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.)

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.

Stroke of Genius

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.

Mistcutter Hydra

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

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.

Vastwood Hydra

Vastwood Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

Transcendent Message

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw X cards.

Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager

Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, put a +1/+1 counter on Grakmaw.
When Grakmaw dies, create an X/X black and green Hydra creature token, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Grakmaw.

Nimbus Swimmer

Flying
Nimbus Swimmer enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

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.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Llanowar Elves

Paradise Druid

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Nessian Wilds Ravager

Tribute 6 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put six +1/+1 counters on it.)
When Nessian Wilds Ravager enters, if tribute wasn't paid, you may have Nessian Wilds Ravager fight another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

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.

Golgari Signet

Fertilid

Fertilid enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Fertilid: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

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.

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.

Suffer the Past

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.)

Mana Bloom

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

Retribution of the Ancients

{B}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

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 Simic Ascendancy.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

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}.

March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

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.

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.

Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Hurricane

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Mind Spring

Graceful Adept

Dominate

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

Gridlock

Repeal

Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.

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 and the rest on top in any order.)

Death Wind

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Killing Glare

Destroy target creature with power X or less.

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

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.

Distorting Wake

Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Thought Vessel

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

Price of Knowledge

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Price of Knowledge deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

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.

Command Tower

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Darkwater Catacombs

Opulent Palace

Opulent Palace enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Hero's Blade

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, you may attach Hero's Blade to it.
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Lumbering Falls

Lumbering Falls enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{2}{G}{U}: Lumbering Falls becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof until end of turn. It's still a land.

Swamp

Forest

Island

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Predator's Rapport

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

Stonecoil Serpent

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

Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant

Haldir, Lórien Lieutenant enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Vigilance
{5}{G}: Until end of turn, other Elves you control gain vigilance and get +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Haldir.

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.

Krakilin

Krakilin enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{G}: Regenerate Krakilin.

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Domesticated Hydra

{X}{G}{G}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Domesticated Hydra is monstrous, it has trample.

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.

Ochre Jelly

Trample
Ochre Jelly enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Split — When Ochre Jelly 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.

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.

Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Vigor

Trample
If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.)

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.)

Urborg Elf

Gang Up

Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost. You choose the value of X.)
Destroy target creature with power X or less.

Capricopian

Capricopian enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{2}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Capricopian, then you may reselect which player Capricopian is attacking. Only the player Capricopian is attacking may activate this ability and only during the declare attackers step. (It can't attack its controller.)

Armorcraft Judge

When Armorcraft Judge enters, draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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.

Counterspell

Sultai Banner

{T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.
{B}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Sultai Banner: Draw a card.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Restless Vinestalk

Restless Vinestalk enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, Restless Vinestalk becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Vinestalk attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

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.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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.

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.

Hungering Hydra

Hungering Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Hungering Hydra can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever Hungering Hydra is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

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.

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.

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}.)

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.

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.

Herald of Secret Streams

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

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.

Exsanguinate

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

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