BIG FREAKING HYDRAS by omaxlyn

Format: Commander

Commander: Magus Lucea Kane

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur big-mana stompy deck helmed by Magus Lucea Kane, designed to generate massive board presence by duplicating spells with {X} in their mana costs. The mana base and ramp package are heavily tuned with 1-2 CMC ramp spells, ensuring that Lucea Kane enters on Turn 3 and untaps on Turn 4 to double devastating threats. Payoffs include massive Hydras like Goldvein Hydra, Primordial Hydra, and Hydroid Krasis, augmented by counter doublers such as Doubling Season and Unbound Flourishing. Evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams and Garruk's Uprising convert huge stat lines into rapid player eliminations, while spells like Crackle with Power and Genesis Wave offer alternative explosive finishes. While the deck boasts immense redundancy in its core threats and high mana acceleration, it lacks specific tutors and relies on raw draw volume to locate protection, interaction, and haste enablers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exponential Growth
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hooded Hydra
  • 1 Hungering Hydra
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Klauth's Will
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Life's Legacy
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magewright's Stone
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Storm King's Thunder
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast