Ironscale Hydra
- Mana cost
- {3}{G}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Hydra
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death #296 (rare)
- Price
- $1.28 USD
If a creature would deal combat damage to this creature, prevent that damage and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Ironscale Hydra has 2 printings, first in Theros Beyond Death (2020). EDHREC ranks it #9,154 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gargos, Vicious Watcher decks (5,303 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ironscale Hydra most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gargos, Vicious Watcher: 5,303 decks
- Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin: 731 decks
- Progenitus: 536 decks
- Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager: 131 decks
- Gyrus, Waker of Corpses: 79 decks
- Polukranos, Unchained: 25 decks
- Polukranos, World Eater: 12 decks
- Dr. Joseph M'Benga: 2 decks
Often played with Ironscale Hydra
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If damage that can’t be prevented is dealt to Ironscale Hydra, the damage is dealt and you’ll simultaneously put a +1/+1 counter on it, before the game checks for lethal damage.
- : You put only one +1/+1 counter on Ironscale Hydra per creature whose combat damage is prevented, no matter how much damage would have been dealt.