Stay Hydrated

Commander / EDH Counters GU (Simic) Hydra

ChaseyK

Creature (30)

• 1x Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Elusive Otter
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Evolution Witness
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Goldvein Hydra
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Railway Brawler
• 1x Rampant Rejuvenator
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sharktocrab
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Voracious Hydra
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Walking Ballista

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drannith Ruins
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 13x Forest
• 1x Hall of Oracles
• 7x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Collective Resistance
• 1x Gaea's Gift
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Invigorating Surge
• 1x Mutational Advantage
• 1x Repulsive Mutation
• 1x Ripples of Potential
• 1x Silkguard
• 1x Smuggler's Surprise

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Wave Goodbye
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x The Skullspore Nexus

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Court of Garenbrig
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Jugan Defends the Temple  ^Flip
• 1x Primal Empathy

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Bring your dice, we're going to need a lot of counters for this one.

Here we have a Simic deck that ramps, draws cards and puts an absurd amount of +1/+1 counters on all its creatures.

I wanted to build around hydras, so I've added ten to the deck (including the very silly The Goose Mother as the commander). One of the nice things about hydras is that many of them are X spells, giving me the flexibility to cast them on curve at any point in the game (it also doesn't hurt that many of them have trample.) And because the deck runs a number of proliferate effects like Thrummingbird, Evolution Sage and Karn's Bastion, even when played cheaply in the early game, they can grow quickly.

One of the things I tried to challenge myself on was to not just fill the deck with a bunch of typical blue instants. Instead, I found a number of spells-on-bodies cards like Mystic Snake and Steelbane Hydra to mix up the playstyle, and provide yet more creatures to be pumped with counters over the course of the game.

Branching Evolution + The Ozolith + Greater Good can snowball very quickly, making a creature scary big, then saccing it for a ton of cards while also keeping the counters on Ozolith (which will then double once they find a new home on another creature, making each subsequent threat even scarier.)

Once you can get The Goose Mother, one of the trample hydras or just Walking Ballista juiced with counters, the game will assuredly come to an abrupt end.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Food, Fungus Dinosaur, Human Monk, On an Adventure, Plot, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	Decks