Zaxara, Nightmare Hydra

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai)

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Land (35)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 2x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Creature (22)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Capricopian
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Mistcutter Hydra
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Voracious Hydra
• 1x Walking Ballista

Instant (9)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Syncopate
• 1x Thassa's Intervention

Artifact (8)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Gaze of Granite
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Nylea's Intervention
• 1x Open Into Wonder
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Wildest Dreams

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Unbound Flourishing
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Sorcery (7)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Gelatinous Genesis
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

Creature (4)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent

Instant (6)

• 1x Condescend
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Ertai's Meddling
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Spell Swindle

Artifact (3)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nyx Lotus

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Shark Typhoon

Land (1)

• 1x Winding Canyons

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Zaxara, the Exemplary is my new favorite commander! It has everything you need for a great hydra deck, and more!

Cast your x spells get little or even big hydras and see how it goes.

COMBOS

• Zaxara, the Exemplary + Freed from the Real = infinite mana
• Zaxara, the Exemplary + Pemmin's Aura = infinite mana
• Bloom Tender + Freed from the Real = infinite mana
• Bloom Tender + Pemmin's Aura = infinite mana
• Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Freed from the Real = infinite mana
• Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Pemmin's Aura = infinite mana

WIN CONS

• Simic Ascendancy + any x cost spell with Zaxara, the Exemplary on the battlefield
• Helix Pinnacle + infinite mana combo
• infinite mana combo + Blue Sun's Zenith or Pull from Tomorrow= play your whole deck and win from any of the other wincons
• infinite mana combo + Mind Grind
• infinite mana combo + Walking Ballista

Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Tribal 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.66
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Hydra 0/0 G, Hydra X/X G, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G
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