It seems very weird that a Hydra can only be blocked by one creature... Flavor fail in my opinion. Card itself seems fine, I remember the good old days of tabletop magic with Protean Hydra.
It seems very weird that a Hydra can only be blocked by one creature... Flavor fail in my opinion. Card itself seems fine, I remember the good old days of tabletop magic with Protean Hydra.
I guess the flavor is that the hungry hydra was hunting the creature that's blocking it.
Love the fact that it's a "real" hydra like Protean Hydra in the sense that if you hurt it more heads will pop out. You need to kill it once and for all.
Card seems really cool, but man it's missing trample like crazy
It seems very weird that a Hydra can only be blocked by one creature... Flavor fail in my opinion. Card itself seems fine, I remember the good old days of tabletop magic with Protean Hydra.
I guess the flavor is that the hungry hydra was huntibg the creature that's blocking it.
Also fits the "hero has to kill the hydra" trope. One of the more flavorful hydras imo.
It seems very weird that a Hydra can only be blocked by one creature... Flavor fail in my opinion. Card itself seems fine, I remember the good old days of tabletop magic with Protean Hydra.
I guess the flavor is that the hungry hydra was huntibg the creature that's blocking it.
Also fits the "hero has to kill the hydra" trope. One of the more flavorful hydras imo.
I think the hero-hydra trope only really grokks when the defending player wants to play the hero. If I'm sitting there with a board full of Goblin tokens, I'm not feeling that trope being fulfilled by throwing a tiny little Goblin body under the writhing mass of hydra necks each turn. The trope isn't that any old individual kills the hydra on their own, it's that Heracles kills it, a demigod.
Seems super powerful in EDH. And I feel like this will be a card that can be part of a broken af combo at some point.
Sort of. It's a beater, and you can make it bigger through fight spells, or just pinging it, but its only evasion is stalking, which has two things to consider: First, it's funny af if you add menace, and secondly, on its own, it doesn't really prevent most creatures from blocking it. They just do so very poorly. (And this is also funny af with trample.)
But it's not really a combo piece per se. It can't be cheated into play the way other beaters like Divinity of Pride can, and it doesn't have any function outside of combat.
It's good for what it does, though. But remember, wipes are common.
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Who else wishes this was a Hydra Hippo and called Hungry Hungry Hydra?
I could see an Un-card like that, with four Hydra heads snapping at Goblins on a platform or something. Just like how Party Crasher could attack on each player's turn, Hungry Hungry Hydra could block on each player's turn.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Enters with x +1/+1 counters.
Can't be blocked by more than one creature.
When it's dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
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This looks to be pretty good in constrictor decks and is a nice foil to chainwhirler
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Ooh, missed that! Well, there we go!
That looks like a lot of Limited fun waiting to happen.
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I guess the flavor is that the hungry hydra was hunting the creature that's blocking it.
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Card seems really cool, but man it's missing trample like crazy
I think the hero-hydra trope only really grokks when the defending player wants to play the hero. If I'm sitting there with a board full of Goblin tokens, I'm not feeling that trope being fulfilled by throwing a tiny little Goblin body under the writhing mass of hydra necks each turn. The trope isn't that any old individual kills the hydra on their own, it's that Heracles kills it, a demigod.
Sort of. It's a beater, and you can make it bigger through fight spells, or just pinging it, but its only evasion is stalking, which has two things to consider: First, it's funny af if you add menace, and secondly, on its own, it doesn't really prevent most creatures from blocking it. They just do so very poorly. (And this is also funny af with trample.)
But it's not really a combo piece per se. It can't be cheated into play the way other beaters like Divinity of Pride can, and it doesn't have any function outside of combat.
It's good for what it does, though. But remember, wipes are common.
On phasing:
I could see an Un-card like that, with four Hydra heads snapping at Goblins on a platform or something. Just like how Party Crasher could attack on each player's turn, Hungry Hungry Hydra could block on each player's turn.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.