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Primordial Hydra

Creature — Hydra MV 2

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.

At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Combos with Primordial 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.

  • Yedora, Grave Gardener Primordial Mist Pitiless Plunderer Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2011-09-22

    Consider only the number of +1/+1 counters on Primordial Hydra when determining if it has trample, not its power and toughness. For example, a Primordial Hydra with six +1/+1 counters on it that's been the target of Titanic Growth (giving it +4/+4) would not have trample.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Primordial Hydra, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Zimone, Infinite Analyst 3 0 —
Zaxara, the Exemplary 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Simic 3 decks
  • Sultai 1 deck

Every version of Primordial Hydra

6 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Primordial 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.