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Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya) Hydra Tokens

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Creature (23)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Feral Hydra
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mistcutter Hydra
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Wildwood Scourge
• 1x Wood Elves

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rally the Ancestors
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Land (35)

• 1x Arctic Treeline
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 11x Forest
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Lair of the Hydra
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Abiding Grace
• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Tocasia's Welcome
• 1x Tribute to the World Tree

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Ascend from Avernus
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Three Visits

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Sol Ring

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Hydra tribal, but with a twist!

Instead of playing out hydras as big, beefy creatures, this deck aims to use hydras very cheap cmc and initial 0/0 power and toughness to abuse the Polukranos, Engine of Ruin   side of Polukranos Reborn  . Here is how the engine of the deck works:

Step 1) Flip Polukranos into Polukranos, Engine of Ruin  

Step 2) Play cards like Lifeline, Abiding Grace, or Luminous Broodmoth

Step 3) Play any of the 0/0 hydras with X = 0. When this happens, the hydra will die immediately and produce two tokens. With any of the cards in step 2 on the battlefield, those hydras will come back and die again, making two more tokens.

Rinse and repeat.

The rest of the deck is build around maximizing the hydra tokens. Note that cards like Cathars' Crusade, Tribute to the World Tree and Defiler of Vigor still work with this strategy. The non-token hydras will die to state-based effects before the ETB trigger resolves.

Fun fact, Polukranos, Engine of Ruin   + Lifeline + a 0/0 hydra is a non-deterministic infinite combo that doesn't actually draw the game!

Comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Elephant 3-3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Hydra 3/3 GW w/ Lifelink, Phyrexian Hydra 3/3 GW w/ Reach, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Snake 1/1 G