Genesis Hydra
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Plant Hydra
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 0
- Set
- Magic 2015 #176 (rare)
- Price
- $0.38 USD
When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Genesis Hydra has 9 printings, first in Magic 2015 (2014). EDHREC ranks it #2,723 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zaxara, the Exemplary decks (11,639 on EDHREC). 4 public decks on TCG run it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Genesis Hydra
- Call for Backup - March of the Machine Commander, led by Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
- Desert Bloom - Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander, led by Yuma, Proud Protector
- Enhanced Evolution - Commander 2020, led by Otrimi, the Ever-Playful
- Upgrades Unleashed - Neon Dynasty Commander, led by Chishiro, the Shattered Blade
Commanders that run Genesis Hydra most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zaxara, the Exemplary: 11,639 decks
- Gargos, Vicious Watcher: 6,617 decks
- Helga, Skittish Seer: 4,031 decks
- Magus Lucea Kane: 2,602 decks
- Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin: 2,439 decks
- Chishiro, the Shattered Blade: 1,787 decks
- Kirri, Talented Sprout: 1,386 decks
- Shalai and Hallar: 1,384 decks
Often played with Genesis Hydra
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A nonland permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card.
- : If you have fewer than X cards in your library, you reveal all of them.
- : If you put an Aura onto the battlefield this way, you choose what it enchants as it enters the battlefield. This doesn't target any permanent or player, but it must be able to enchant that permanent or player. For example, you could put a green Aura onto the battlefield enchanting a creature with hexproof controlled by an opponent, but not one with protection from green.
- : Genesis Hydra's first ability will resolve before Genesis Hydra does. Notably, if you put an Aura card onto the battlefield this way, it can't enchant Genesis Hydra.
- : If "the rest" is zero cards, either because X was 0 or because X was 1 and that card was put onto the battlefield, the library is still shuffled.
- : If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.