Hydra Headache

Standard BG (Golgari)

Keth

Creature (32)

• 2x Arbor Colossus
• 4x Corpsejack Menace
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Kalonian Hydra
• 4x Leafcrown Dryad
• 4x Mistcutter Hydra
• 2x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 4x Scourge of Skola Vale
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Land (22)

• 16x Forest
• 2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 4x Overgrown Tomb

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Death's Presence

Artifact (2)

• 2x Bow of Nylea

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Alpha Authority
• 2x Primeval Bounty

Artifact (3)

• 3x Pithing Needle

Instant (8)

• 2x Artisan's Sorrow
• 4x Ranger's Guile
• 2x Savage Summoning

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Just a basic deck around the most common Hydras seen in Standard at present. Mistcutter Hydra, Scourge of Scola Vale and Kalonian Hydra. It is almost exclusively a Green deck, with just a splash of black for Corpsejack Menace to ramp the +1/+1 counters, paired with Death's Presence. Nylea, God of the Hunt is in the deck to give the Mistcutter's Trample, as well as a bit of power buffing if you can't get the hydras out.

The basic idea is to have as many of the Corpsejacks and Death's Presence out as you can, as early as you can through mana ramp. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and the 4 Elvish Mystics do that for you. The 4 Leafcrown Dryads are there to give your Hydras or Sylvan Caryatids reach, should it be needed.

Once you have the basic field presence of sufficient mana, you can either just swing away with the hydras you get out, or you can utilise Death's Presence and the Corpsejacks to their fullest potential - Ramping Scourge. Whenever someone tries to kill spell one of your creatures, tap Scourge and sac their target to him. Corpsejack will double the +1/+1 counters you will get for it, and then Death's Presence fires off from the sacrifice, and you get the +1/+1 counters, and doubled, again.

Using this deck, I have successfully pulled 208 damage in a single combat on T10. 2x Corpsejacks, 1x Mistcutter @ 10/10, 2x Mistcutters @ 15/15 and 1x Kalonian @ 12/12, with Nylea on the field. After declaring attackers, Kalonian and the Corpsejacks fired off to pump the Hydras to 1x Mistcutter @ 40/40, 2x Mistcutters @ 60/60 and 1x Kalonian @ 58/58 (after pumping it with Nylea's buff 5 times).

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 2 Mythic Rares 28 - 5 Rares 0 - 4 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts