Benevolent Hydra
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
T, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Combos with Benevolent Hydra
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Mindless Automaton Wizard Class Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Experiment Kraj Devoted Druid Infinite
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Marath, Will of the Wild Cryptic Trilobite Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Rite of Passage Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Vigor Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Gatta and Luzzu Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2022-12-02
"Put on another creature you control" includes creatures other than Benevolent Hydra that enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters on them. If another creature would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it while you control Benevolent Hydra, it enters with that many counters plus one.
- 2022-12-02
Each additional Benevolent Hydra you control will increase the number of +1/+1 counters placed on anther creature by one.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Benevolent Hydra, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimone, Infinite Analyst | 3 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 3 decks
Every version of Benevolent Hydra
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.77
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $8.97
- Normal
- $5.38
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Benevolent Hydra. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
