Zaxara's X-Hydra

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Counters Hydra Tokens

Stiggen

Land (36)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 11x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 2x Island
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Nylea's Intervention
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Creature (22)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Voracious Hydra
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Whiptongue Hydra

Artifact (9)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Elementalist's Palette
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Unbound Flourishing

Instant (6)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Icy Blast
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Stubborn Denial

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Tribe
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Spark Double

Land (3)

• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Artifact (8)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x Nissa's Triumph
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Instant (2)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Plasm Capture

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Maybeboard

Creature (19)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Gadwick, the Wizened
• 1x Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Sakiko, Mother of Summer
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Wren's Run Hydra

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Distorting Wake
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Enshrined Memories
• 1x Gelatinous Genesis
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Ingenious Mastery
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Open Into Wonder
• 1x Scouting Trek
• 1x Stolen by the Fae
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Upwelling
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Artifact (7)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Ventifact Bottle

Instant (7)

• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Spell Rupture
• 1x Spoils of Evil
• 1x Strength of the Tajuru
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Thassa's Intervention

Land (2)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

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X matters while doubling counters and doubling tokens. Go big or go home. Main nasty Zaxara, the Exemplary combos are Doubling Season, Primal Vigor with X spells for tokens and counters (not to mention Branching Evolution, Parallel Lives ), Unbound Flourishing for spell and ability copying and Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real for infinite mana. Since we're so mana starved we need ways to multiply what we have. Lots of lands in the deck produce more than one mana and with things like Mana Reflection, Magus of the Candelabra and Nyxbloom Ancient we start getting some ridiculous output. There's a sub theme of untapping because we want to abuse stuff like Magus and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. Add Doubling Cube and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and we're able to keep this mana flowing in. It's extremely fun to pilot once it gets going. You start cranking out multiples of massive hydras as side effects of cards that are already powerful ( Torment of Hailfire , Exsanguinate, Mind Grind for the board, Profane Command or Villainous Wealth for a single player) if you're not also copying them! Citanul Flute is a great way to tutor for whatever hydra you need at the time and the top deck manipulation ( Mirri's Guile, Scroll Rack, Sensei's Divining Top, Sylvan Library, Cream of the Crop ) is to make sure we're getting what we need and even set up for Nissa, Steward of Elements (or Nissa, Vastwood Seer   when flipped). Some alternative ways to have fun are with Muldrotha, the Gravetide and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. Sac your big Hydroid Krasis to Jarad and recast it with Muldrotha and you now have a big Hydroid Krasis, an equally big hydra token from Zax (if not multiple) not to mention your lifegain and draw again.

I need help figuring out how to trim 6 cards and add in the stuff in my sidebaord...

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 4 Mythic Rares 49 - 15 Rares 18 - 8 Uncommons 2 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Boar 2/2 G, Hydra 0/0 G, Hydra */* G, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
Based on	Ramos, X Engine Stiggen EDH