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Protean Hydra enters the battlefield 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.
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May I suggest Primordial Hydra , Feral Hydra , Hydra Omnivore , Protean Hydra ? They are all rather good mana dumps that will either consistantly get bigger or do quite a lot for you. They are big bodies, and can be used to distract your opponent from your other cards as they can be seen as a monstrous threat.
What's your interaction with Ulvenwald Tracker and Mutant's Prey ? If it's as spot removal, Beast Within might be a better choice than Mutant's Prey, and while Ulvenwald tracker as Removal on a stick works well, it might benefit from cards like Protean Hydra where taking the damage will increase it's counters.
My only other suggestions might be Seedborn Muse , Murkfiend Liege or Quest for Renewal . Seedborn Muse is the hyper version of it untapping your lands, but the other two at least allow for additional Vorel effects.
Otherwise, great deck :D! Definitely looking to build something similar to this
Spidersilk Armor for Gravity Well
Stalwart Shield-Bearers for Leyline of Vitality
Verdant Haven for Pyrohemia to multiply your own Sprouting Phytohydra s
Axebane Guardian provides a lot of choice in win-cons. ie: Door to Nothingness . or Vent Sentinel
You have huge mana ramp and nothing to spend it on. maybe a Wolfbriar Elemental or Protean Hydra ?
Protean Hydra and Ooze Flux make a good combo and it fits your deck
If you have Bioshift in there you can remove counters from your Protean Hydra to double or tripple onto another creature, and then get the doubling effect at end of turn. Yay counters!
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I don't think you could go wrong with a little Rancor . And I'm a fan of Thragtusk (Except when it's played against me). Also Rapid Hybridization can be super useful so I'd probably throw it in.
The Protean Hydra in your maybe board sadly aren't legal for Standard, if that's where you intend to play this deck.
I'm not entirely sure what this is for, is it a collection of potential cards to use in a deck? A start for a EDH deck?As it stands, if all those cards listed were in one deck, there would be several problems.
1) There's more than 60 cards, and only 20 mana. As a general rule, you want give it or take 24 mana in a 60 card deck.
2) There does't seem to be much focus or a win condition. You have several cards that could be used to secure wins (namely your planeswalkers). What you have now is just a collection of black and green cards.
3) For the most part, you have 1 of each card in the deck. This means your chance of getting each card is very low, and you want to have your deck play consistently.
Assuming you mainly want to play casually (I'm no expert on competitive play anyway) I would recommend first adding more mana (for a total of 24) and then trimming down the size of your deck, and focus on putting together a more consistent, focused strategy. For a Golgari themed deck, Corpsejack Menace is a great start, use as of these as you can (up to 4). Build your deck around the use and manipulation of +1/+1 counters. Cards like Forced Adaptation, Experiment One, Strangleroot Geist and Lumberknot will work well with this. Other cards with Scavenge can also be good, like Dreg Mangler but try to keep your mana costs down, don't use a lot of creatures like Terrus Wurm. For a big finisher, Protean Hydra works great, possibly with a card like Rancor on it. Finally, you are going to want to get creatures out fast to overwhelm your opponent. Cards like Arbor Elf and Farseek will help. Cards like Bioshift and Hindervines can help keep the game in your favor.
| Low | Avg | High |
|---|---|---|
| $0.38 | $0.62 | $1.55 |
| Power / Toughness | 0/0 |
| Color(s) | G |
| Cost | XG |
| Converted cost | 1 |
| Avg. draft pick | 2.01 |
| Avg. cube pick | 4.20 |
| Format | Legality |
| Heirloom | Legal |
| Extended | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Set | Rarity |
| 2011 Core Set | Rare |
| 2010 Core Set | Mythic Rare |
