MTG Salvation

...yeah, okay, I can definitely work with this.

This card is pretty scary if the have Huatli, the Sun's Heart on the board. Summoning an 11/11 and gaining 11 life isn't bad on turn 5...

This followed by Huatli, the Sun's Heart.

Seems fair. 11/11 trample and gain 11 life.

I am really feeling the Bant and Grixis colors in this set for limited. Specifically, Simic and Selesnya are both solid, and either Rakdos or Dimir is going to be pretty strong as well, I think. And any of those splashing the third color to complete the shard will work well.

So, if I understand this correctly, it's getting the counters when you +1 your Planeswalkers AND when the Planeswalker is played.

Play a Jace, Unraveler of Secrets and this gets +5/+5. Have Doubling Season out and this would get +20/+20 instead.

Jace, Cunning Castaway, Doubling Season, this hydra, infinite +1/+1 counters. Jace enters with 6 counters, so hydra gets 12 +1/+1's. Then you drop the ult, make two copies with 6 counters a piece (24 more +1/+1 counters) and two options to repeat making clones.

If you can pull off this combo without being punched in the face you should win a medal of some sort.

It only gets +1 once because of the "one or more" rule, so when you play a Planeswalker it gets +1 however much that planeswalker will get at once.

Are you sure about that? The card also contains the "put that many" rule which would indicate that the hydra will get as many counters as there are loyalty counters on the new Planeswalker. The only thing I would be concerned about is whether playing a new planeswalker with X loyalty actually triggers the passive ability at all. The planewalker enters the battelfield with that many counters already so they are not technically put on it (at least not when the planeswalker is on the battelfield).

It only gets +1 once because of the "one or more" rule, so when you play a Planeswalker it gets +1 however much that planeswalker will get at once.

However, play Jace before, THEN the hydra, and it gets as many counters as the Planeswalkers have, so better play it after you played all your + abilities but before the - abilities

Seems like a solid body to help superfriends decks protec and attac.

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It only gets +1 once because of the "one or more" rule, so when you play a Planeswalker it gets +1 however much that planeswalker will get at once.

Whenever one or more loyalty counters are put on planeswalkers you control, put that many +1/+1 counters on Bioessence Hydra.

You add 3 loyalty counters, the Hydra gets 3 +1/+1 counters.

I'm calling you Event Hydra.

So many of the cards in this set combo viciously with karn liberated

Bolas copies Karn Liberated's ult for supreme sarcasm.