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Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Legendary Creature — Hydra
Vigilance
Hydra spells you cast cost 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. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
![Voracious Hydra feature for Hail Hydra - Tribal EDH [Gargos - Primer]](http://static.tappedout.net/mtg-cards-2/core-set-202/voracious-hydra/mtg-cards/_user-added/femme_fatale-voracious-hydra-m20-15609731880.png)
SaberTech on Naya tricks
3 months ago
Naya Charm, Boros Charm
, Valorous Stance, and Collective Resistance have been common inclusions for me.
Trash the Town has been pretty useful in my Gargos, Vicious Watcher deck.
Green has all sorts of instants that grant indestructible like Tamiyo's Safekeeping, Gaea's Gift, and Strength of Will. There are a variety of others as well with specific additional effects that may be better for your specific deck so it is worth taking a look.
Benefactor's Draught is a surprisingly versatile tool that you can use to politic with, catch an opponent off guard with blockers they weren't expecting, or draw a bunch of cards if an opponent blocks a bunch of your creatures.
If you are running cards like Zada, Hedron Grinder and Feather, the Redeemed then Fists of Flame, Ancestor's Aid, Sudden Breakthrough, Crimson Wisps, Might of the Weak, Guided Strike, Shelter, Otherworldly Outburst, and Felonious Rage are cards worth considering.
Heroic Intervention, Dawn's Truce, Akroma's Will, and Lorehold Command are strong general options too.
wallisface on
Rampaging Hydras & Elves Deck
2 years ago
This us the kindof list i’d end up building (again, Green-Blue, but it’d be super-easy to make this mono-green)
MrHighscore on
Dehydrated Hydras
2 years ago
It's been a couple of years, and the Hydra horde have matured!
Thanks for all your great suggestions while I've been away. I can see that the deck could need an overhaul with all the wonderful new cards
The following are now under consideration
- Vivien Reid: all her abilities seems useful
- Unbound Flourishing: Wait what? More doubling! Sign me up, double time.
- Traverse the Outlands: Prune deck for all lands AND put them into play? Awesomesauce!
- The Great Henge: Seems alrigt. Not sure it's worth a slot, but ramp and card draw.
- Shadowspear: Trample and some other nice stuff
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds: Very good alternate commander. Will clearly be better than Polukranos, World Eater, but I'm not sure I can have an Elf Scout piloting a Hydra deck? Or can I? If so, I for sure need
- Umbral Mantle to go full retard on the board
- Rishkar's Expertise may be quite a good draw spell, but I hate to discard
- Nissa, Who Shakes the World: Lots of more mana. Would never +1 her, but if she comes out under Doubling Season, the -8 emblem sounds pretty sexy.
- Monstrous Onslaught: There is a hydra on the card. Nuff said
- Lifecrafter's Bestiary: Could be alright to draw some cards. But makes X one less. not sure
- Karametra's Acolyte: bonkers ramp
- Invigorating Surge: double +2 counters on a hydra. Could be fine?
- Infiltration Lens: Fixes draw for cheap! In this deck it surely beats Skullclamp
- Garruk's Uprising: Pretty good draw engine for the hydrating hydras
- Emerald Medallion: Okay is. Not sure it's good enough compared to the more expensive options
- Branching Evolution: Wait what? Yet another doubler? How are you doing?
New Hydras to make room for:
seshiro_of_the_orochi on
Krond, the Shining Archon
2 years ago
I was today years old when I realized the duality between Krond and Vela the Night-Clad.
A card I like a lot for enchantress decks is Gargos, Vicious Watcher. He's a good target for auras, but he turns every aura into spot removal.
YorkshireSamurai on
“X” Marks the Spot
2 years ago
Nice build! I have something similar myself except the hydrae are very much a sub-theme.
Nice inclusion of Invasion of Ikoria Flip. I considered it, but decided against in the end.
I tried to put a few target spells in to work with Gargos, Vicious Watcher and not just use it for that 4 mana discount although your deck has a lot more hydra creatures.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/zaxara-the-mighty-hydra-horror-1/
CamraMaan on Timing question with Gargos, Vicious …
2 years ago
Sorry, it's been a flood of questions lately.
Gargos, Vicious Watcher is in play, and I want to have it fight Grothama, All-Devouring by casting Mending Touch targeting Gargos. Will the fight occur before Mending Touch resolves? I'm not sure about the stack order with this, as I don't know if Gargos triggers on the cast of the spell, or the resolution, and then where the trigger will go on the stack. Will Gargos receive the regeneration effect before it fights, and prevent its death, or will it die first...?
Thanks in advance!
CamraMaan on Interaction between Gargos, Vicious Watcher …
2 years ago
I'm assuming Gargos, Vicious Watcher will trigger for each of my creatures targeted by Silkguard...? And it's not a "may", so I would have to do it, correct? Obviously, it's just for +1/+1 counters, so I wouldn't fight more than Gargos could handle. Thanks in advance!
DrukenReaps on progenitus or morophon
2 years ago
Hydra tribal I'd highly recommend just mono-green headed by Gargos, Vicious Watcher, or maybe red-green. The majority of hydras are just green. That said I'm not going to stop you.
Morophon seems the better choice of the two for a 5 color tribal deck. It supports your 99 and lets you actually cast Progenitus. Morophon will reduce the cost of most your hydras by 1, some of them by a bit more. For each reduction they can often get another +1/+1 counter, plus it offers +1/+1 to them as a base.
Progenitus, however, is going to draw eyes and not every deck has a good tool to kill it... That could bring your hydra deck attention early that you don't necessarily have a good response to.