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Welcome to Hydrassic Park

Commander / EDH Casual Counters Mono-Green Primer Ramp Tribal

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Sorcery (5)

Artifact (4)

Enchantment (17)

Instant (13)

Commander (1)

Commander: Gargos, Vicious Watcher

Land (38)

Planeswalker (3)

Sideboard

Creature (10)

Welcome to Hydrassic Park!

Where you can dominate the world by playing massively huge creatures that just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Target your commander or any other creature in your deck with any of the numerous low costing instant and aura spells to let Gargos, Vicious Watcher become removal on a stick, especially if you slap a Basilisk Collar on any one of his many heads.
  • Whip Silk , Berserk , Blossoming Defense , Gather Courage , Mutagenic Growth , Seedling Charm , Withstand Death , Rancor , Spider Umbra
  • Mortal's Resolve , Sylvan Might , Talons of Wildwood , Nature's Way
  • (or potentially free) Band Together , Invigorate , Gather Courage , Mutagenic Growth With all the targeting happening, Season of Growth and Wild Defiance will give you a lot of value.
    • If you weren't already into stomping your opponents to death with giant hydras then you might enjoy the little bit of Vivien flavor with all the Vivien walkers joining the party.
  • Use Vivien Reid as a removal spell, or a way to dig out your hydras. Plus if you end up using her ultimate then... well, I'll just let you look at that one.
  • Use Vivien, Arkbow Ranger to give your hydras trample and make them even bigger. Use her minus ability as a removal without fear of losing your creatures, and if your play group is alright with the 10 card sideboard wish rule then her ultimate could grab you a hydras best friend, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger .
  • Use Vivien, Champion of the Wilds to allow you to blast your hydras in at instant speed, not to mention if you are utilizing Bear Umbra then you'll have all your mana untapped to threaten this ability. You can also use her to grant vigilance and reach, or dig a little further for the perfect hydra.
    • To get the most value out of hydras you'll want a metric ton of mana, and I mean it. Don't mess around with your ramp. From early game ramp like, Cultivate , Kodama's Reach , and Everflowing Chalice to the creature mana generators like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds to big late ramp spells like Mana Reflection , Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger , Traverse the Outlands , and Zendikar Resurgent .
    It can be hard to find ways to keep up with mono-blue when it comes to drawing cards, but this deck is no slouch! From little cantrips like Bonds of Mortality to consistent card drawers like, Greater Good , Guardian Project , Season of Growth , Sylvan Library , Zendikar Resurgent , Arch of Orazca and Lifecrafter's Bestiary
    To make those hydras even bigger and badder and allow the deck to run more smoothly these cards will help you create an unbound flourishing of a green deck.
  • Proliferate: Evolution Sage , Karn's Bastion
  • Trample: Nylea, God of the Hunt , Rhonas the Indomitable , and the other auras and instants previously mentioned
  • Protection/Removal: Heroic Intervention , Cavern of Souls , Song of the Dryads , Beast Within , Force of Vigor , Bonds of Mortality , Arcane Lighthouse , Yavimaya Hollow , Miren, the Moaning Well , Scavenger Grounds , Asceticism plus little instants and Enchantments listed above
  • Counters: Doubling Season , Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • The best Hydra card ever made: Unbound Flourishing
  • Fun and Useful Search Card: Uncage the Menagerie
  • Flash: Winding Canyons

    • Hopefully you find this deck to be as fun and explosive as I do! If you have any suggestions please let me know, there are always cards I forget!

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    Revision 1 See all

    (7 years ago)

    +1 Ancient Tomb main
    -1 Arbor Armament main
    +1 Asceticism main
    -1 Blighted Woodland main
    -1 Karametra's Favor main
    -1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade main
    +1 Sylvan Might main
    +1 Whip Silk main