Benevolent Hydra
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Hydra
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #124 (rare)
- Price
- $0.62 USD
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.
Benevolent Hydra has 3 printings, first in Jumpstart 2022 (2022). EDHREC ranks it #2,925 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zimone, Infinite Analyst decks (10,106 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Benevolent Hydra
- Quandrix Unlimited - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Zimone, Infinite Analyst
Commanders that run Benevolent Hydra most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zimone, Infinite Analyst: 10,106 decks
- Zaxara, the Exemplary: 6,448 decks
- Animar, Soul of Elements: 4,913 decks
- Gargos, Vicious Watcher: 4,376 decks
- Helga, Skittish Seer: 3,329 decks
- Magus Lucea Kane: 2,503 decks
- Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin: 1,100 decks
- Primo, the Unbounded: 1,048 decks
Often played with Benevolent Hydra
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : "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.
- : Each additional Benevolent Hydra you control will increase the number of +1/+1 counters placed on anther creature by one.