Comically Huge Hydras

Modern BG (Golgari) BUG (Sultai) Combo Competitive Counters Midrange

KSULongneck

Creature (27)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 4x Corpsejack Menace
• 2x Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• 2x Heroes' Bane
• 4x Ilysian Caryatid
• 3x Kalonian Hydra
• 4x Primordial Hydra
• 2x Protean Hydra
• 2x Stonecoil Serpent

Land (21)

• 2x Castle Garenbrig
• 10x Forest
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 5x Swamp

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Essence Harvest

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Garruk, Primal Hunter

Artifact (4)

• 4x The Ozolith

Instant (2)

• 2x Golgari Charm

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 2x Bioshift
• 2x Golgari Charm
• 2x Naturalize
• 4x Solidarity of Heroes

Creature (3)

• 3x Erebos, God of the Dead

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Hydra's Growth

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Kavu Predator
• 1x Vastwood Hydra

Instant (1)

• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Artifact (2)

• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Torpor Orb

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Maelstrom Pulse

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Triumph of Ferocity

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Please comment and suggest. I have played this deck casually for a long time and I am considering playing in some Modern tournaments with it. I am in particular need of sideboard suggestions.

Corpsejack Menace is the key that makes this deck really run. The hydras are, obviously, quite potent on their own but Corpsejack makes them absolutely terrifying. Primordial Hydra triples in size with him on the board instead of doubling. Attack with Kalonian Hydra for even more fun! Protean Hydra can get comically huge in a single turn with Corpsejack on the board. Play him as a 6/6 for 4 mana. Bioshift 5 counters off of him. At the end step he gets 10 put on, Corpsejack makes that 20.

Bioshift adds other tricks besides growing a huge hydra. It can save all your counter in he face of a removal spell. It can save an important creature from burn by moving some counters to it. The possibilites are endless.

Essence Harvest is here to take advantage of big hydras without needing combat damage. It can also give you some sustain in an emergency as you develop your board position.

Max Combat Damage done in a legitimate game: 75,816 on T9

Top Ranked	Achieved #43 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 3 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 4 - 8 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Wurm 6/6 G
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