Hydra by user4750252

Format: Commander

Commander: Gargos, Vicious Watcher

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-green Hydra tribal stompy strategy led by Gargos, Vicious Watcher. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana in the early turns using ramp spells like Cultivate, Nature's Lore, and Sol Ring to cast Gargos ahead of curve on turn 4 or 5. Once on the battlefield, Gargos reduces the cost of all Hydra spells by {4} generic mana, allowing X-cost threats like Primordial Hydra, Voracious Hydra, and Genesis Hydra to enter with massive base power. The deck compounds this board state with counter multipliers such as Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, and Kalonian Hydra, while drawing cards through power-matters engines like Garruk's Uprising and Rishkar's Expertise. Protection from Asceticism and Inspiring Call shields key threats as the deck rolls into combat, eliminating opponents one by one with overwhelming trample damage by turns 6 through 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Briar Hydra
  • 1 Brutalizer Exarch
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Clockwork Hydra
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Domesticated Hydra
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feral Hydra
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 29 Forest
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroes' Bane
  • 1 Hooded Hydra
  • 1 Hungering Hydra
  • 1 Hydra Broodmaster
  • 1 Hydra Omnivore
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Ironscale Hydra
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mistcutter Hydra
  • 1 Moss Diamond
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nessian Wilds Ravager
  • 1 Neverwinter Hydra
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Oran-Rief Hydra
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Polukranos, World Eater
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Primeval Light
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Tectonic Split
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Whiptongue Hydra