Big bad standard hydras

by Mtgisme on 13 January 2014

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How to Play

Hydras and corpse hack for double counters

Deck Tags

  • Hydra
  • Standard

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Big bad standard hydras

Bioshift is a smart idea. Get a hydra out with corpsejack, your opponent might be okay with it, but play one or two bioshifts out of nowhere and boom, big problems.

I like this deck, good job.
Here is my hydra deck, I love playing this deck.
http://www.mtgvault.com/xreverie8/decks/hydras/

My only suggestion, since you are running black, would be Jarad-Golgari Lich Lord. Still standard and an awesome win condition when playing hydras. Also Rogues Passage, another great win condition.

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 06:20

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I really like the idea of rogues passage and jarad, when I play my golgari deck I bounce counters around from lotleth troll to wild beast master and keep getting more and more, swing for a lot of damage and the sac them to jarad to finish them off

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 16:54

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But what do I drop for them? I could prob drop two polukranos and two give // take

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 16:57

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I don't know what I would drop. I thought Zhur-Taa, but he is your big source of ramp. Since there isn't a lot of ramp in this deck, maybe drop a hydra with an X in its manna cost. polukranos and Kalonian are 4 and 5 drops. Not hard to achieve. I would try dropping 2 mistcutters, you can't afford to drop savageborn, double strike makes him amazing when you consider you could be doubling his counters.

Sideboard the 2 Mistcutters though, in case the Jarad setup isn't working you can always switch it out.

Maybe drop some Give//Take for some rogues passage. Since there isn't a lot of ramp, running 26 lands might work, but that is a lot of lands in my experience and may cause you to mana flood. Give it a try though.

Maybe try switching out zhur-taa for sylvan caryatid if youre having trouble hitting curtain colored mana.

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 17:20

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So far with the shock lands I haven't had to many off color problems, and yeah give is basically just 3 or 48 counters depending on how many corpsejack are out but rogues passage is lethal with savage born

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 18:26

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This is awesome! I love hydras. The only thing is, though, that it seems like it might be a liiiittle bit slow to pump out the big creatures. Hrm. How does this normally play out for you?

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 14:50

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It goes pretty well if you can get a corpsejack out it's game, even it you pay two into a hydra it's a 4/4 and when you attack with Kalonian it quadruples from him and corpsejack also if he's put Kalonian is an 8/8 for five cmc.

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 16:51

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