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.

Entrancing Melody

Gain control of target creature with mana value X.

Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.
{1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nimbus Swimmer

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

Untamed Might

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

Chimeric Mass

Chimeric Mass enters with X charge counters on it.
{1}: Until end of turn, Chimeric Mass becomes a Construct artifact creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of charge counters on it."

Protean Hydra

Protean Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to Protean Hydra, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it.
Whenever a +1/+1 counter is removed from Protean Hydra, put two +1/+1 counters on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Reality Spasm

Choose one —
• Tap X target permanents.
• Untap X target permanents.

Soaring Seacliff

Soaring Seacliff enters tapped.
When Soaring Seacliff enters, target creature gains flying until end of turn.
{T}: Add {U}.

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.

Soul's Might

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

Sigil of Distinction

Sigil of Distinction enters with X charge counters on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.
Equip—Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Broken Ambitions

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Molder

Destroy target artifact or enchantment with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. You gain X life.

Iceberg

Iceberg enters with X ice counters on it.
{3}: Put an ice counter on Iceberg.
Remove an ice counter from Iceberg: Add {C}.

Thrive

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures.

Repeal

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

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}.

Maga, Traitor to Mortals

Maga, Traitor to Mortals enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Maga enters, target player loses life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

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.

Nourishing Shoal

You may exile a green card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You gain X life.

Serene Sunset

Prevent all combat damage X target creatures would deal this turn.

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Submerged Boneyard

Submerged Boneyard enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Selective Snare

Return X target creatures of the creature type of your choice to their owner's hand.

Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Ugin's Conjurant

Ugin's Conjurant enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to Ugin's Conjurant while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from Ugin's Conjurant.

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.

Ancient Ziggurat

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Hurricane

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

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.

Polukranos, Unchained

Polukranos enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead.
If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it.
{1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature.
Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.

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.

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.)

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.

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Darkwater Catacombs

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Beast Within

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

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.)

Mind Spring

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

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.

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.)

Forest

Stir the Grave

Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Invigorating Surge

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

Swamp

Ipnu Rivulet

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Mistcutter Hydra

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

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Thriving Moor

Thriving Moor enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black.
{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Thriving Grove

Thriving Grove enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green.
{T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

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.

Rejuvenating Springs

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

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."

Snow-Covered Island

Woodland Chasm

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Woodland Chasm enters tapped.

Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Rimewood Falls enters tapped.

Snow-Covered Swamp

Littjara Mirrorlake

Littjara Mirrorlake enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{G}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Littjara Mirrorlake: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Port of Karfell

Port of Karfell enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Port of Karfell: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Logic Knot

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Tanglepool Bridge

Tanglepool Bridge enters tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Combine Chrysalis

Creature tokens you control have flying.
{2}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.)

Lair of the Hydra

If you control two or more other lands, Lair of the Hydra enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{X}{G}: Until end of turn, Lair of the Hydra becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

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}.)

Evolving Wilds

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

Temple of the False God

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

Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2}
Channel — {2}{G}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Channel — {1}{U}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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.)

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Desert of the Indomitable

Desert of the Indomitable enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Snow-Covered Forest

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.

Lullmage's Domination

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature whose controller has eight or more cards in their graveyard.
Gain control of target creature with mana value X.

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.

Command Tower

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

Darkbore Pathway

Slitherbore Pathway

Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway

Shimmerdrift Vale

Shimmerdrift Vale enters tapped.
As Shimmerdrift Vale enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Ingenious Mastery

You may pay {2}{U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{U} cost was paid, you draw three cards, then an opponent creates two Treasure tokens and they scry 2. If that cost wasn't paid, you draw X cards.

Mistvault Bridge

Mistvault Bridge enters tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Darkmoss Bridge

Darkmoss Bridge enters tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

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.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Island

Awakened Awareness

Enchant artifact or creature
When Awakened Awareness 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.

Spinning Wheel Kick

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

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