Land (36)
- 1x Blighted Woodland
- 1x Botanical Sanctum
- 1x Breeding Pool
- 1x Cabal Coffers
- 1x Command Tower
- 1x Darkwater Catacombs
- 1x Dimir Aqueduct
- 8x Forest
- 1x Golgari Rot Farm
- 1x Island
- 1x Mortuary Mire
- 1x Myriad Landscape
- 1x Opal Palace
- 1x Opulent Palace
- 1x Overgrown Tomb
- 1x Path of Ancestry
- 1x Rogue's Passage
- 1x Simic Growth Chamber
- 1x Soaring Seacliff
- 1x Sunken Hollow
- 3x Swamp
- 1x Temple of Deceit
- 1x Temple of Malady
- 1x Temple of Mystery
- 1x Temple of the False God
- 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1x Watery Grave
Artifact (7)
Sorcery (18)
- 1x Animist's Awakening
-
1x
Killing Wave
- 1x Curse of the Swine
- 1x Exsanguinate
- 1x Farseek
- 1x Finale of Devastation
- 1x Finale of Revelation
- 1x Mind Spring
- 1x Nylea's Intervention
- 1x Profane Command
- 1x Rampant Growth
- 1x Cultivate
- 1x Gaze of Granite
- 1x Kodama's Reach
- 1x Villainous Wealth
- 1x Migration Path
- 1x Triumph of the Hordes
-
1x
In Garruk's Wake
Instant (14)
- 1x Choking Vines
-
1x
Clash of Wills
- 1x Condescend
- 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
- 1x Erebos's Intervention
- 1x Icy Blast
- 1x Power Sink
- 1x Pull from Tomorrow
- 1x Thassa's Intervention
- 1x Beast Within
- 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
- 1x Fierce Guardianship
- 1x Krosan Grip
- 1x Deadly Rollick
Planeswalker (3)
Commander (1)
Creature (15)
- 1x Hungering Hydra
- 1x Mistcutter Hydra
- 1x Protean Hydra
- 1x Hydroid Krasis
- 1x Primordial Hydra
- 1x Steelbane Hydra
- 1x Voracious Hydra
- 1x Lifeblood Hydra
- 1x Altered Ego
-
1x
Corpsejack Menace
- 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
- 1x Thunderous Snapper
- 1x Kalonian Hydra
- 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
- 1x Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Enchantment (6)
Big Mana, Big Spells, and Big Creatures:
A Guide to Finding X
(Input Description Here)
The notable stats of the deck, these are for a quick look
at what the numbers for synergy and basic deck function are
so that as the I playtest I will be able to pinpoint where
changes are needed.
Big Mana: 15 Cards
Hydras Matter: 21 Cards
Finding X: 34 cards
Card Draw: 11 cards
Spot Removal: 11 cards
Board Wipes: 3 cards
Counterspells: 5 cards
Finishers: 6 cards
at what the numbers for synergy and basic deck function are
so that as the I playtest I will be able to pinpoint where
changes are needed.
Big Mana: 15 Cards
Hydras Matter: 21 Cards
Finding X: 34 cards
Card Draw: 11 cards
Spot Removal: 11 cards
Board Wipes: 3 cards
Counterspells: 5 cards
Finishers: 6 cards
This list is to show what changes are needed when starting the deck off
as the Enhanced Evolution C20 preconstructed deck.
These are the lands that I swapped out from the base deck to revamp the manabase
and keep games more consistent as well as providing a bit more utility.
Island -> Watery Grave
Endless Sands -> Cabal Coffers
Swamp -> Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Llanowar Wastes -> Overgrown Tomb
Forest -> Breeding Pool
Forest -> Botanical Sanctum
Dismal Backwater -> Temple of Deceit
Jungle Hollow -> Temple of Malady
Thornwood Falls -> Temple of Mystery
Exotic Orchard -> Path of Ancestry
Forest -> Opal Palace
This deck is light on artifact ramp due to having green, but
the synergies provided by some artifacts are must includes.
-Boneyard Mycodrax -> Astral Cornucopia
The cornucopia can help set up late game turns if it isn't
removed when your opponents see that it taps for 5+ mana.
-Bonder's Ornament -> The Ozolith
This card basically allows us to recycle any hydra that
may die and discourages removing our creatures.
-Swamp -> Lightning Greaves
-Putrefy -> Swiftfoot Boots
These two are essential to making sure our commander
sticks around to the mid-late game.
The creatures section is where I will have to do the most changing in order to
move this deck away from Mutate and into the hydras and X spells playstyle.
-Cazur, Ruthless Stalker -> Corpsejack Menace
This swap is perfect for the deck, same CMC but a wildly more synergistic card.
-Ukkima, Stalking Shadow -> Steelbane Hydra
-Wydwen, the Biting Gale -> Hydroid Krasis
-Vorapede -> Voracious Hydra
-Trygon Predator -> Mistcutter Hydra
-Tidal Barracuda -> Lifeblood Hydra
-Shriekmaw -> Protean Hydra
-Pouncing Shoreshark -> Hungering Hydra
-Heroes' Bane -> Primordial Hydra
-Reclamation Sage -> Kalonian Hydra
Subbing out for hydras to fit the deck and add in more synergy.
-Capricopian -> Nylea, God of the Hunt
This is arguably the worst hydra, swapping out for a finisher.
-Masked Admirers -> Thunderous Snapper
The snapper rewards what the deck wants to do by turning all
high CMC spells into cantrips.
-Chittering Harvester -> Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Gargos makes our hydras 4 counters larger and has the added
benefit of sometimes being able to take out key creatures.
-Souvenir Snatcher -> Altered Ego
This card is just the better version of the best creature on
the board at the time it is cast.
-Lifecrafter's Bestiary -> Kruphix, God of Horizons
Kruphix allows for building up mana across turns for a bigger X.
The enchantment package offers a lot of synergy and helps support
high mana costs that this deck requires.
-Psychic Impetus -> Freed from the Real
This card with Zaxara is an infinite mana combo to hopefully
finish the game once resolved, I know Pemmin's Aura exists too
but I wanted to keep to only one infinite for balancing reasons.
-Predatory Impetus -> Unbound Flourishing
This is the best card in the deck, hands down. Doubles our
big X spells, our huge hydras, and even helps ramp.
-Predator Ooze -> Simic Ascendancy
This can win the game for us after just one or two X
spells get cast with the commander out.
-Beast Whisperer -> Elemental Bond
The bond is much more synergistic with the tokens Zaxara
creates and is much more difficult to remove.
-Genesis Hydra -> Asceticism
This can protect our whole board from targeted removal
while also offering the option to save a specific creature.
-Silent Arbiter -> Retribution of the Ancients
Retribution offers repeatable removal so long as there
are hydras in play, and protects from one sided wipes.
I wanted to add more counter support as well as
adding in more removal here.
-Trumpeting Gnarr -> Power Sink
This counterspell is absolutely busted if X is high enough
that they cannot pay for it.
-Insatiable Hemophage -> Condescend
-Migratory Greathorn -> Clash of Wills
-Mulldrifter -> Thassa's Intervention
-Propaganda -> Fierce Guardianship
Adding in another couple counterspells, Thassa's also
helps dig and get cards in hand.
-Mindleecher -> Pull from Tomorrow
Swapping out for much needed card draw at instant speed.
-Archipelagore -> Icy Blast
-Otrimi, the Ever-Playful -> Choking Vines
These are both great and synergistic ways to buy
an extra turn or save from an alpha strike.
-Sawtusk Demolisher -> Erebos's Intervention
Versatile removal that can also gain tons of life.
-Dreamtail Heron -> Epiphany at the Drownyard
This is a very good dig spell, this deck's Dig.
-Illusory Ambusher -> Blue Sun's Zenith
This card can allow for early game draw and a late game KO.
Even though I am not running Doubling Season due to the
price, a few key planeswalkers were still worth slotting in.
-Fertilid -> Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
This turns all of our hydras into mana dorks which might help
get a lethal amount into our X spells or ramp out more hydras.
-Cold-Eyed Selkie -> Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Kiora lets us untap key permeants (like Cabal Coffers) to pump in
more mana or to ensure a blocker is available after attacks
Again, just taking out low synergy cards and rounding the deck out.
-Glowstone Recluse -> Nylea's Intervention
I know that putting lands in your hand may seem bad; however,
this card can go get Coffers + Urborg for only 4 mana.
-Yavimaya Dryad -> Killing Wave
Killing wave is oftentimes a board wipe even with
a low value for X.
-Find / Finality -> Curse of the Swine
Curse can pick off the most important creatures on
the board and replaces them with vanilla 2/2's.
-Deadly Tempest -> In Garruk's Wake
One sided board wipe that is not hard to cast.
-Auspicious Starrix -> Finale of Revelation
Really powerful card draw that leaves a hydra behind.
-Parasitic Impetus -> Rampant Growth
-Dredge the Mire -> Cultivate
-Cavern Whisperer -> Farseek
The deck needed more land based ramp to go off.
-Vastwood Hydra -> Exsanguinate
Expropriate is an absolutely amazing finisher card
that allows for wins with X as low as 10 or 15.
-Boneyard Lurker -> Finale of Devastation
Just a Really good game ending spell.
as the Enhanced Evolution C20 preconstructed deck.
These are the lands that I swapped out from the base deck to revamp the manabase
and keep games more consistent as well as providing a bit more utility.
Island -> Watery Grave
Endless Sands -> Cabal Coffers
Swamp -> Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Llanowar Wastes -> Overgrown Tomb
Forest -> Breeding Pool
Forest -> Botanical Sanctum
Dismal Backwater -> Temple of Deceit
Jungle Hollow -> Temple of Malady
Thornwood Falls -> Temple of Mystery
Exotic Orchard -> Path of Ancestry
Forest -> Opal Palace
This deck is light on artifact ramp due to having green, but
the synergies provided by some artifacts are must includes.
-Boneyard Mycodrax -> Astral Cornucopia
The cornucopia can help set up late game turns if it isn't
removed when your opponents see that it taps for 5+ mana.
-Bonder's Ornament -> The Ozolith
This card basically allows us to recycle any hydra that
may die and discourages removing our creatures.
-Swamp -> Lightning Greaves
-Putrefy -> Swiftfoot Boots
These two are essential to making sure our commander
sticks around to the mid-late game.
The creatures section is where I will have to do the most changing in order to
move this deck away from Mutate and into the hydras and X spells playstyle.
-Cazur, Ruthless Stalker -> Corpsejack Menace
This swap is perfect for the deck, same CMC but a wildly more synergistic card.
-Ukkima, Stalking Shadow -> Steelbane Hydra
-Wydwen, the Biting Gale -> Hydroid Krasis
-Vorapede -> Voracious Hydra
-Trygon Predator -> Mistcutter Hydra
-Tidal Barracuda -> Lifeblood Hydra
-Shriekmaw -> Protean Hydra
-Pouncing Shoreshark -> Hungering Hydra
-Heroes' Bane -> Primordial Hydra
-Reclamation Sage -> Kalonian Hydra
Subbing out for hydras to fit the deck and add in more synergy.
-Capricopian -> Nylea, God of the Hunt
This is arguably the worst hydra, swapping out for a finisher.
-Masked Admirers -> Thunderous Snapper
The snapper rewards what the deck wants to do by turning all
high CMC spells into cantrips.
-Chittering Harvester -> Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Gargos makes our hydras 4 counters larger and has the added
benefit of sometimes being able to take out key creatures.
-Souvenir Snatcher -> Altered Ego
This card is just the better version of the best creature on
the board at the time it is cast.
-Lifecrafter's Bestiary -> Kruphix, God of Horizons
Kruphix allows for building up mana across turns for a bigger X.
The enchantment package offers a lot of synergy and helps support
high mana costs that this deck requires.
-Psychic Impetus -> Freed from the Real
This card with Zaxara is an infinite mana combo to hopefully
finish the game once resolved, I know Pemmin's Aura exists too
but I wanted to keep to only one infinite for balancing reasons.
-Predatory Impetus -> Unbound Flourishing
This is the best card in the deck, hands down. Doubles our
big X spells, our huge hydras, and even helps ramp.
-Predator Ooze -> Simic Ascendancy
This can win the game for us after just one or two X
spells get cast with the commander out.
-Beast Whisperer -> Elemental Bond
The bond is much more synergistic with the tokens Zaxara
creates and is much more difficult to remove.
-Genesis Hydra -> Asceticism
This can protect our whole board from targeted removal
while also offering the option to save a specific creature.
-Silent Arbiter -> Retribution of the Ancients
Retribution offers repeatable removal so long as there
are hydras in play, and protects from one sided wipes.
I wanted to add more counter support as well as
adding in more removal here.
-Trumpeting Gnarr -> Power Sink
This counterspell is absolutely busted if X is high enough
that they cannot pay for it.
-Insatiable Hemophage -> Condescend
-Migratory Greathorn -> Clash of Wills
-Mulldrifter -> Thassa's Intervention
-Propaganda -> Fierce Guardianship
Adding in another couple counterspells, Thassa's also
helps dig and get cards in hand.
-Mindleecher -> Pull from Tomorrow
Swapping out for much needed card draw at instant speed.
-Archipelagore -> Icy Blast
-Otrimi, the Ever-Playful -> Choking Vines
These are both great and synergistic ways to buy
an extra turn or save from an alpha strike.
-Sawtusk Demolisher -> Erebos's Intervention
Versatile removal that can also gain tons of life.
-Dreamtail Heron -> Epiphany at the Drownyard
This is a very good dig spell, this deck's Dig.
-Illusory Ambusher -> Blue Sun's Zenith
This card can allow for early game draw and a late game KO.
Even though I am not running Doubling Season due to the
price, a few key planeswalkers were still worth slotting in.
-Fertilid -> Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
This turns all of our hydras into mana dorks which might help
get a lethal amount into our X spells or ramp out more hydras.
-Cold-Eyed Selkie -> Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Kiora lets us untap key permeants (like Cabal Coffers) to pump in
more mana or to ensure a blocker is available after attacks
Again, just taking out low synergy cards and rounding the deck out.
-Glowstone Recluse -> Nylea's Intervention
I know that putting lands in your hand may seem bad; however,
this card can go get Coffers + Urborg for only 4 mana.
-Yavimaya Dryad -> Killing Wave
Killing wave is oftentimes a board wipe even with
a low value for X.
-Find / Finality -> Curse of the Swine
Curse can pick off the most important creatures on
the board and replaces them with vanilla 2/2's.
-Deadly Tempest -> In Garruk's Wake
One sided board wipe that is not hard to cast.
-Auspicious Starrix -> Finale of Revelation
Really powerful card draw that leaves a hydra behind.
-Parasitic Impetus -> Rampant Growth
-Dredge the Mire -> Cultivate
-Cavern Whisperer -> Farseek
The deck needed more land based ramp to go off.
-Vastwood Hydra -> Exsanguinate
Expropriate is an absolutely amazing finisher card
that allows for wins with X as low as 10 or 15.
-Boneyard Lurker -> Finale of Devastation
Just a Really good game ending spell.
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| Date added | 4 years |
| Last updated | 4 years |
| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 10 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.53 |
| Tokens | Beast 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Hydra 0/0 G |
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