Polukranos, Worldeater 2GG
Legendary Creature - Hydra
Trample
Polukranos enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Polukranos.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Polukranos: Regenerate it.
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Go ahead and discuss! What do you think he will be?
With a name like world eater, you'd probably be able to either sacrifice lands to it, or it will nuke a non-basic when it hits an opponent. It will likely cause it to grow as well.
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when ~ etb exile all other permanents
Gets +1/+1 for each permanent exiled.
When leaves play return all exiled permanents
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Totally balanced
To be balanced, it should be "exile all other permanents you control" or "exile all other non-land permanents." Letting it exile your opponents' permanents is still a bit risky, since it's prone to "mesmeric fiend trigger-order" gimmicks.
I wouldn't be surprised if it ate a nonbasic on combat damage-to-player trigger, or it was an at the beginning of upkeep trigger. With a name like World Eater, it sounds like it'd destroy lands.
Maybe it has an ability that lets you sacrifice a nonbasic to put a +1/+1 counter on it or two.
Trample or something like that would be a given, and maybe ETBF with 4/5 +1/+1 counters?
In the same way you can tell someone is from the XVIII century because he is arroused by ankles, you can tell someone is from USA because he feels nipples disturbing.
Still not enough. It needs to exile everything! Including the players.
Anyway, I like that it doesn't cost X. Apart from that, it's nearly impoosible to guess what it does. The growing and land destruction make sense though.
Somehow I don't think it would only destroy nonbasic lands, mainly because it would be weird to include in a duel deck seeing as how they have few nonbasic lands In them. If anything, I think it would be any land.
Polukranos 2GG
LC - Hydra
Trample
ETB with 5 +1/+1 counters.
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, destroy target land that player controls.
Whenever a land card is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Polukranos.
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That version seems pretty good, but honestly this seems more likely:
Polukranos, World Eater 2GG
Legendary Creature - Hydra
Trample
When you cast Polukranos, exile all lands you control. Polukranos enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each land exiled this way.
When Polukranos leaves the battlefield, return all exiled lands to the battlefield.
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That version seems a lot worse, and no that's why I could see Wizards making something like that.
Guys, typically hydras that don't have X in their cost don't start with +1/+1 counters. I'd expect more of a Novablast Wurm. Something maybe a 4/4 that has "When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, destroy all lands that player controls" or maybe "When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, destroy all lands." though that one feels very white. I do feel it will be a set P/T with a combat trigger involving lands.
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At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, put a green Hydra token with trample onto the battlefield whose power and thoughness is equal to the number of hydras you control.
and for the fun:
exile target land from your graveyard: regenerate target hydra.
What are your thoughts on what he might do?
I'm guessing:
Polukranos, Worldeater 2GG
Legendary Creature - Hydra
Trample
Polukranos enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Polukranos.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Polukranos: Regenerate it.
0/0
Go ahead and discuss! What do you think he will be?
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My 'condition' is a trial. The weak are consumed by it. The strong transcend it.
Isn't that what Protean Hydra represents?
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They've done plenty of functional reprints before. I'm sure it will play into the cliche
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Starts with 4 +1/+1 counters.
At the beginning of each upkeep double the amount of +1/+1 counters on X, then you win the game if X's power is greater than 20.
Rock Hydra
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when ~ etb exile all other permanents
Gets +1/+1 for each permanent exiled.
When leaves play return all exiled permanents
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Totally balanced
Combine with any card that can make a lot of tokens in a short time for fun and profit.
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To be balanced, it should be "exile all other permanents you control" or "exile all other non-land permanents." Letting it exile your opponents' permanents is still a bit risky, since it's prone to "mesmeric fiend trigger-order" gimmicks.
possibly cards in hand as well
We need to go deeper...
It needs to exile itself too...!
Maybe it has an ability that lets you sacrifice a nonbasic to put a +1/+1 counter on it or two.
Trample or something like that would be a given, and maybe ETBF with 4/5 +1/+1 counters?
Or maybe something like "When ~ enters the battlefield, sacrifice all tapped lands you control"
That would be pretty nuts
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Still not enough. It needs to exile everything! Including the players.
Anyway, I like that it doesn't cost X. Apart from that, it's nearly impoosible to guess what it does. The growing and land destruction make sense though.
Polukranos 2GG
LC - Hydra
Trample
ETB with 5 +1/+1 counters.
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, destroy target land that player controls.
Whenever a land card is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Polukranos.
0/0
That version seems pretty good, but honestly this seems more likely:
Polukranos, World Eater 2GG
Legendary Creature - Hydra
Trample
When you cast Polukranos, exile all lands you control. Polukranos enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each land exiled this way.
When Polukranos leaves the battlefield, return all exiled lands to the battlefield.
0/0
That version seems a lot worse, and no that's why I could see Wizards making something like that.
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Banner ala Lymons
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, put a green Hydra token with trample onto the battlefield whose power and thoughness is equal to the number of hydras you control.
and for the fun:
exile target land from your graveyard: regenerate target hydra.
The last hydra we had was Kalonian Hydra, which is always 5 mana but comes in with 4 counters.
~ Comes into play with 4 +1/+1 counters.
Whenever a source would deal damage to ~, prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on it instead.