Suggestions
Lifeblood Hydra is not Modern Legal. This means I need something/somethings in my sideboard to switch out for when the deck is needed for Modern competitions. I am in dire need of suggestions for this
How the deck should work
Eldrazi Monument kills off the creatures, so
Hooded Hydra
has to be out before then.
Umbral Mantle + Viridian Joiner
make an infinite mana combo, which goes amazing with almost all the Hydra, especially
Hydra Broodmaster
.
Back to the Eldrazi Monument, get out
Hooded Hydra
using the mana combo if possible to make it very, very, very big and sacrifice it to the Eldrazi Monument next turn, giving you a plane's worth of snakes, and fodder for the Monument.
Managorger Hydra gets huge over a few turns.
Once you have the inifinite mana combo out, Lifeblood Hydra comes into a league of its own, winning you the game more or less.
Kalonian Hydra doesn't need a description, it's picture will answer all questions.
Primordial Hydra and Kalonian Hydra become ridiculously huge if you get them out early game.
Lifeblood Hydra becomes problematic if it gets huge, as you cant sacrifice it without it threatening to mill you out. So, you let it do exactly that, as you draw all your remaining cards allowing you to get every card in your deck on the battlefield thanks to the mana combo, and the single Platinum Angel preventing you from losing.
Overall, once the deck gets it's hooks into the game; a few hydra in your hand, Eldrazi Monument
+
Hooded Hydra
and the Umbral Mantle + Viridian Joiner
combo on the board, it becomes very difficult for your opponents to win, and impossible to win with Platinum Angel.
I've recieved comments from friends about mana ramp, so I've sideboarded some land fetching, so it can be switched in or out depending how the deck runs actual play.
It hasn't been placed into the mainboard as I really don't want to reduce the amount of Hydra or the combos within the deck i.e. Mana and Eldrazi Monument
+
Hooded Hydra
any further.
I have a tiny amount of White in this deck. I'm wondering whether to drop out the white and increase the birds of paradise or something similar... Thoughts?
