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| Casual | Legal |
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Hooded Hydra
Creature — Snake Hydra
Hooded Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Hooded Hydra is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . You may turn it face up at any time for its morph cost.)
As Hooded Hydra is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.
TheMadRocketeer on
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1 month ago
Craeter, Great suggestions! Thanks.
I do already have Hardened Scales and Primal Vigor in the deck.
I have Fertilid and considered it for this deck but didn't put it in the Maybe list. I'll add it now and may swap it in. Very useful.
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire and Branching Evolution are exactly the kind of cards I'd like to have more of in the deck.
Heroic Intervention is terrific protection, and I have my eye out for some.
Doubling Season is nutso good and, as you say, super expensive. I've not done proxying and mainly just play kitchen table games, but . . . Yeah. Wow.
Hooded Hydra is great. I don't think I have any, but I'm going to go digging to make sure.
Tribute to the World Tree, Forgotten Ancient, Devoted Druid - You've given me a lot to think about and look for. :-)
Craeter on
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1 month ago
This is pretty good for cards you just happen to have! If you're looking to upgrade in the future here are some suggestions: Tribute to the World Tree, Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Heroic Intervention, Hooded Hydra, Forgotten Ancient, Fertilid, Devoted Druid, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, Primal Vigor, then there's the staple stupid expensive Doubling Season - I'd recommend just proxying it for a few bucks.
Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor on
Will you forget the head slicing thing!?
1 year ago
Slashdance - Thank you for the supportive comment!
Hooded Hydra is a great call for another 0/0 hydra that has additional utility. I'll have to find a space for that one.
I have never really been a fan of Primal Vigor due to the card's abilities being symmetrical. I've been burned before by it helping my opponents as much as, or more than me in games.
Tetravus is a blast from the past for sure. Not sure if I have room for it or the other iterations of it, but it does have interesting synergy with hydras.
Tocasia's Welcome is great in this deck. First of all, it triggers on creatures with 3 mana value or less, not 3 power or less. Each hydra token I make and each hydra I cast is potential card draw (very rarely will I cast a hydra where X is greater than 0). The "once per turn" clause does limit it's explosiveness compared to the other options I have, but it actually has the widest range among Elemental Bond, Tribute to the World Tree, and Guardian Project in this deck's strategy (I run all of these by the way). Garruk's Uprising is a fantastic card, but I decided to exclude it since most of my creatures come in with less than 4 power.
Slashdance on Advertise your COMMANDER deck!
1 year ago
I love hydras, so thank you for a look at this deck!
Since you're using Cathars' Crusade, I would like to suggest adding Hooded Hydra ... it can really give a nitro boost your other creatures, and can even be death-triggered during an attack if you kill it yourself. Super potent if you have your Doubling Season (or similar) also in play.
Speaking of which, Primal Vigor also plays well with Cathars' Crusade and/or Hooded Hydra.
These cards could really allow a secondary option of going wide when needed.
A bit of a jank suggestion, but it goes well with your hydra theme and everything else I've mentioned, even without being an actual hydra. Tetravus could be a fantastic add to your wonderful deck.
Is Tocasia's Welcome doing much work for you? I assume most of your hydras are coming into play with more than just 3 counters on them, leaving you with only 8 creatures with 3 or less power to trigger the Welcome ... and even some of those may end up not triggering if you have Cathars' Crusade in play. Maybe Garruk's Uprising or better yet Elemental Bond might help to draw cards more often? Doing so would double your potential eligible chances from 8 to 16+, not counting tokens. That said, if you take any of my token advice, like Tetravus, all the card-draw cards start to even out and it's a coin flip.
Thank you and good luck!
Here's my Shalai deck, which is also Hydra based!
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Max_Hammer on Kadena "Surprise tool for later" …
1 year ago
For those that are curious on the changes I made to the deck
What I'm taking out: Show
What I'm putting in to replace it: Show
I also plan on changing out some other lands, but above are the utility lands only.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
1 year ago
Persistent Necromancer
Planeswalker
Morbib - This spell costs less to cast, where is the total number of creatures that have died this turn.
+1 Mill three cards. If you milled at least one creature card this way, gain 2 life.
-6 Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
4
Create a piñata creature, i.e. a creature that gives you multiple creatures or tokens when it dies. For examples, look at Protean Hulk, Hooded Hydra and similar cards.
Max_Hammer on
2 years ago
Huh, it broke, eh? Oh well, here's the list again, not hidden. (I usually accordion lists, so they don't take up three acres in comment space)
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Polukranos, World Eater isn't X-cost, but he can poke at all of your other masochistic hydras, feeding them. That, or just act as removal.
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Primordial Hydra is going to get out of hand fast, if people let him.
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Neverwinter Hydra is going to, on average, be a 11/11 if you're just paying the two to bring it out and letting your commander foot the rest of the bill (Average roll for 4d6 is 10.5).
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Hungering Hydra and Protean Hydra both like tickles.
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Steelbane Hydra is some extra removal, if need be.
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Hooded Hydra could be cool. You get snakes!
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Capricopian is a goat! What's not to like?
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Mistcutter Hydra, Wildwood Scourge, Feral Hydra, and Stumpsquall Hydra are all here, I suppose. They work, technically.
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Genesis Hydra is here, but is also kind of less than useless (if you add a bunch more X-cost creatures. If not, it wouldn't be a bad addition). If a bunch of your big creatures are going to be 0/0's unless you pay their cost, then you don't want to play them for free, really.
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Astral Cornucopia isn't a hydra, but it is X-cost and would give Palette more doots.
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Strength of the Tajuru and Squall Line could both work well, too, also feeding Palette.
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Path of Ancestry just for an extra little doot.
P.S. I swear I'm not being paid by Big Elementalist.
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