Nyxborn Hydra
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}
- Type
- Enchantment Creature — Hydra
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 1
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 #164 (common)
- Price
- $0.41 USD
Bestow {X}{G}{G} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Reach, trample
This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.
Nyxborn Hydra has 2 printings, first in Modern Horizons 3 (2024). EDHREC ranks it #3,490 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zaxara, the Exemplary decks (7,966 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Nyxborn Hydra most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zaxara, the Exemplary: 7,966 decks
- Gargos, Vicious Watcher: 4,712 decks
- Magus Lucea Kane: 2,102 decks
- Zimone, Infinite Analyst: 1,793 decks
- Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin: 1,259 decks
- Rosheen, Roaring Prophet: 1,089 decks
- Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant: 1,016 decks
- Kosei, Penitent Warlord: 625 decks
Often played with Nyxborn Hydra
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.
- : Auras attached to a creature don't become tapped when the creature becomes tapped. Except in some rare cases, an Aura with bestow remains untapped when it becomes unattached and becomes a creature.
- : On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.
- : If a permanent with bestow enters the battlefield by any method other than being cast, it will be an enchantment creature. You can't choose to pay the bestow cost and have it become an Aura.
- : Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it's been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began.