What are Hydras? | Magic Arcanum
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Core Set 2020 brought us Voracious Hydra and Gargos, Vicious Watcher, but there were plenty more multi-headed snakes that came before them.
Get the story behind hydras and their road to becoming green's iconic creature type as only Magic Arcanum can tell it! - Ігри
Man, I love what you do and how you do it. I have a MTG Arena Versus series I do on my channel. If you'd ever like to collab, I would love to work with you!
That would be so cool if it happened
I would seriously watch this. Love you both as content creators
"What are hydras?"
They are my FRIENDS.
Hydra is bestest boi/gurl
Best friends :3
The goodest boys
@@jakeroberson3011 until it becomes monstrous and gains trample
Skullgrin YES!
When he talks about Hydriod Krasis: "And the life gain is another green ability, tho not one we've seen on a hydras before!", Lifeblood Hydra: "Am I a joke to you mate?!"
(Ryan) Yeah that's true. I'll say Lifeblood doesn't count because he was in a supplemental product, and, he has to die first...but you are correct lol
Wait, so walking ballista is a hydra?
And hangerback walker and endless one and ugin's conjurant 👍
Yes
Yes you said Heracles, finally I’m free, one UA-camr other than overly sarcastic productions know the true name of Heracles, I’m free
dark and gritty reboot lol
His true name is Alcides though. Heracles is the name he took in an attempt to appease Hera (it means "Glory to Hera").
as if you are the only one knowing greek mythology lmao
@@MeandMonkeyLP Never claimed that. No need to be hostile over a bit of trivia.
MaMLP cease UWU
Hydroid Krasis is the most *realistic* hydra to hydra, due to actual hydras being cnidarians (group of jellyfish, anemones etc).
(Ryan) SCIENCE!
@@tcgplayercom HAIL HYDRA
except ulasht is an actual hydra
Ryan just explained that hydras are water serpents.
I thought Wurms were green’s “iconic” creature in the angel, demon, sphinx, dragon cycle
They are. There's even a green wurm in alpha
Wurms aren't really relevant anymore, hydras while mostly non competitive have become more synonymous and commonplace inclusions as Green's rare creature.
My first thought as well.
Will Jackson They certainly used to be 😉. You know - "back in my day"...
I thought it would be beasts or baloths
Me: Oh hey, a new Magic vi-
“Hydras”
Me: *Instant flashbacks of Hungering Hydra*
HAIL HYDRA
ALL HAIL OUR HYDRA OVERLORDS
My EDH deck is hydra tribal. So fun. Especially when Unbound Flourishing comes out
That cards been out for quite a while
Liam Blood out meaning on to the battlefield lol
Ahhh makes a lot more sense now 😂😂
I‘m building a Sasaya Orochi Ascendant deck with a hydra sub theme and I love it when Unbound Flourishings hits the field, it so much fun
Green has always been my favorite magic color and hydras have been my favorite creature type. It makes me happy to see hydras getting some love this set because of M20.
Hydra Broodmaster will always be my favorite Magic card ever. The joy of pumping 80 mana into its Monstrosity cost and getting 40 40/40 tokens is unparalleled 😁
*Plays a board wipe
History of Sphinxes would be amazing :)
edit: thanks for all the likes everyone
(Ryan) Depending on how this video does, we were thinking about doing the iconic creature for all five colors, so Sphinxes would be on the list :-)
@@tcgplayercom Our prays have been answered :D
I downvoted you.
@@tcgplayercom PLEASE do so, very interesting and fun to watch, though dragons and angels will be tough with how many there are...
@@ildlyn8966 thank you for your honesty
What are hydras? I thought they where dehydrated lizards you soaked in water.
Do make a video about Progenitus. He's probably my favorite Magic legendary creature ever. I just love the art on that card. And also Marit Lage, the token. I love gigantic creatures.
DOMINIC IAN CABATIT and he never did
Yeesssss hydras! One of the coolest in MTG in my opinion. Fell in love with Progenitus and the x green Hydra back in Alara
"Hydra"
*flashes back to fighting the hydra on gameday"
Return to Theros when Wizards
I have 4 kalonian Hydras in my deck
My answer: hydras are the sexiest of all the magic creatures, and the best ones in my opinion
What's your alls favourite Greek element
Mine's
HYDRAgen
Primordial Hydra has always held a special place in my heart, since that was around the time I got into the game :D
Just as nearly all my hydras arrive in the mail for my Gargos deck. Brought to me by TCGPlayer.
(This is not a sponsored comment, just thought it was funny)
Playing Hydra Broodmaster in a walls deck with 4 Overgrown Battlements making a total of 30 or so mana is some great fun
*sigh* aaaahhhhhh, whenever another Magic Arcanum vid pops up on your feed, it's time to kick back, open a cold one and be serenaded by the melodious tones of Ryan's lorespeak #MagicArcanum #TCG #perfection
I love that land joke in 1:05. Go figure: Origins of hydras are found in swamps and lakes, so MTG decides Forests LOL
It's weird that you refer to Theros standard as "that point in Magic's history." It makes me feel really old as a Magic player who's only been playing since 2012.
(Ryan) I felt just as weird writing it in the script, believe me.
I'm shocked you didn't mention the Battle a Hydra deck they created for Theros! It was a ton of fun and very Hydra.
I played RG Monsters and Devotion throughout their time in standard. In fact, RG Monsters was my first deck getting into the game after quitting Yugioh. Naturally, my favorite hydras are Polukranos and Genesis Hydra.
Sounds like your going to laugh whenever you talk... love it!
I know what hydra’s are from Hercules that one Disney movie‼️ But I thought green got ELVES 🧝♂️ 😂
Elves are greens characteristic race, which basically means it's the race that shows up a lot. Hydras are the iconic race: less common, more splashy.
Every color has their own big creatures and (kinda) small races: W is angels/humans, U is sphinx/merfolk, B is demons/zombies, R is dragons/goblins and G is hydras/elves
I always thought elves were black and green
@SndFX2 They're primary green, secondary black, tertiary white. So the vast majority of elves are either mono green or green and something else (not just black and white, there's R/G and U/G elves too), a small minority are black and a smaller number are white.
Every color gets elfs 🤘
5:47
Borborygmos: "Ulasht, what hobbies do you have?"
Ulasht:" You know the usual EAT, SMASH and gardening"
I love mtg stories and it would be great to know the story of Progenitus !!! ( progenitus have "protection from everything " lol )
7:40 - PLEASE MAKE A PROGENITUS DECK, I LOVE THIS CARD 😍
Btw i love Hydras, thanks a lot for making the hard work to tell the whole story
The Hydra creature type is one of my favorites with my first being set being Born of the Gods and the first Hydra I used was Scourge of Skola Vale in a Golgari deck. Can't wait for my favorite creature type to be talked about though: DEMONS.
I remember the first time I faced a Primordial Hydra in kitchen table magic and watched it absolutely destroy my makeshift zombie tribal deck
Hydras are amongst my favorite creatures in Magic!
(Ryan) You have good taste!
Blue also gets Leviathans , and green has Wurms , these two creature types should not be excluded as they are the big boys of the colour's respective sets.
"You can have an 8/9 Voracious Hydra for just two mana!"
B Y T H E G O D S
BTW...Hydra comes from a greek word that means water..so thats extra wierd
Always loved Hydras myself, so this was awesome to see the different ones over the years. Built a commander deck using all my green Hydras with a good mana engine. You need one to cast one of my favorites (at the moment), Hydra Broodmaster! A 7/7 for six mana is pretty good with a double X Monstrosity cost. This not only gives a one time boost for the Broodmaster, but gives you the same amount in Hydra creature tokens with power and toughness equal to that same amount. A great way to get a few extra hydras out there ^_^
I always think of wurms as green's iconic creature. Am I wrong about that?
Kalonian Hydra=Best Hydra
Protean hydra was one of my OG tablemagic beaters. Started playing magic around M10 so I think I got one in a deckbuilder's toolkit. Very well-designed, still good in my commander counters deck.
I was absolutely rolling when you said “EIGHT PIPS OF BROCCOLI!”
Hydroid Krasis is my favorite little affront to nature.
Before watching the video: New heads can be grown for RRR apice. Rock Hydra is one of my favorite cards of all time just for the text on the original being so evocative and easily understood.
My favorite Hydra was Hungering Hydra, mainly because it was the first card I've ever owned.
Didn't Heracles entangle the hydra's heads and defeat it that way? Or perhaps that was Hercules, I don't know
he burned/cauterized the heads depending on the lore
Managorger Hydra is in my top 3 cards of all time, it was my first ever pick in a draft and it got me to 3rd place.
Are you sure greens animal is Hydra? Forgive me if I thought that greens I kind of animal was worm
And maybe elfs
@@KelvinTrading hmm... for a while it was even: beast
(Nicole) I thought the same thing about Wurms and Elves! Wizards of the Coast gives a breakdown of what are specifically referred to as "iconic creatures" in this ancient article! Thanks for watching! bit.ly/30Wg0Hi
@@tcgplayercom thanks will check the link out when finished watching. Sorin is my favorite planeswalker and second Will be liliana !
@@Midnightv did not know that i am just new to magic
19:00 try Aggressive Mammoth insane 8 power and 8 toughness for 6 mana!!!!
“You can use the decklist at your next FNM!”
Laughs in 2020
I never considered hydras as green's iconic creature. I think wurm's are for more classic to green.
my man, I love this channel, but please understand that "subvert expectations" is a PTSD trigger term for Game of Thrones fans.
Little story :
I use to draft with friends and for ravnica alligiance I was the one who brought the box. After the draft there was 12 boosters left and we would not be drafting again on this set because of war of the spark was coming. So I decided to make a 6 boosters sealed with a friend.
I opened my first booster and I saw that there was a foil card at the end but I didn't want to spoil it. So I went through the booster and... no foil behind the rare ? Land ? Token ? Where is my foil card ?
And behind the token... Hydroid Krasis Foil !!!! XD
17:48 "life gain is an ability we have not seen on hydras before"
Lifeblood Hydra: Am I joke to you?
On noooo you dumped 22 green mana into a 20/20 hydra
Its a real shame that I have my 1/1 blight beetle so you can't get any +1/+1 counters
It's now a 0/0 and dies
Oops
(Ryan) That's some spicy tech lol
I think the colors also get a small creature type. White with soldiers and knights, Blue with wizards, black with zombies, red with goblins and green with elves.
Now you're getting into the meat n potatoes of retroactive redos via R&D.
They used to not acknowledge humans as a tribe.
Also, if you notice, some of your list are classes (which is the model from Odyssey era, I believe). That tribal setup only 1/2 of the race/class model they use (taken from D&D) now.
So it's also, kinda:
White: humans (or kor, or kithkin) & soldiers (also knights or clerics).
Blue: merfolk (or vedalken, or faeries, or moonfolk, sometimes) & wizards.
Black: zombies (or vampires) & rogues (or assassins, or pirates).
Red: goblins (sometimes minotaurs) & warriors (and shamans?)
Green: elves (or orochi, or cats) & druids.
Hydra Broodmaster was the first Hydra I got, and fond memories of it and its babies swinging for more than 100 damage make it my favorite (but Savageborn is a close second).
I thought black got vampires, not demons.
15:02 "subvert eXpectstions"
Was that intentional? Made me chuckle either way :).
Red gets goblins
Blue gets merfolks
Green gets elves
White gets angels
Black gets zombies
Duuuhhh
You're talking about the other classification of creatures in magic. Theres "iconic" and the other one (I can't remember it's name, but for the sake of the comment, lets just call them "classic"). Iconic creatures are typically big beaters, for big mana, and only a few of each type appear in each set, usually at rare. These are the creature types he listed at the beginning. "Classic" creatures are smaller, and appear in greater numbers at all rarities. They are the ones you listed except white. Angels are white's iconic creature, humans/soldiers are whites "classic" creature.
*MISTCUTTER HYDRA HAS HASTE LOL*
Fantastic episode as always, but the pun count is concerningly low. By the way, "Hail Hydra!"
I love that heroes bane in late game, why wait to the end of turn to double the counters? Just pay 4 mana three times and you got a monster xD
Gargos is my fav hydra. I like having mana left after casting something huge like him.
I always thought iconic green creatures were elves and wurms
To me, green's iconic creature type will always remain the Wurm.
I agree
“What are Hydra’s?”
The Coolest fucking Mythological Creatures in existence and the greatest Darkus Bakugan in Hydranoid who ever existed.
Gargos is so incredibly good imo
Hydroid Krasis is also a nice shout out to the real world hydra, which is a multi-"headed" jellyfish-like creature with an insane regeneration ability
Well I mean the jelly was named after the hydra
Wurms... fallen dragons that are iconic in green since Alpha (1993). Spiders... also iconic creature type in green since Alpha (1993). Beasts... creatures of the wild mostly in green with some of the biggest creatures ever printer (good old Krosa). Hydras... iconic green MtG creatures since... Ravnica (2005) ??? Wait what???
My first deck I ever built was a Mono Green Hydra deck so Hydras have a special place in my heart. At the time, Journey Unto Nyx had just dropped so I had some good options for the time. Primordial and Kalonian were my top dogs, along with Mistcutter and Protean. Ramp, Stomp, Repeat. I also found Solidarity of Heroes to be a staple. Pit Fight and Bio Shift also came in handy.
waiting for the progenitus video✌️
Progenitus was one of my first mythic rare and my first commander. I loved my hydra deck, but I had to retire it when I started crafting more fun decks. But after getting Gargos in a pack, I might revisit hydras
Let it be known that Hydras are so connected to water that they are basically the same word. In Ancient Greek, "Υδωρ" is water, "Υδρα" is Hydra. It is the same root where all the english "Hydro" words come from, such as Hydraulic (Υδραυλικά) brakes in your car, Hydro-electric power, or the Pokemon move, Hydro Pump.
White; Angel, Blue; Wizard, Black; Zombie, Red; Dragons/goblins, Green; clearly Beasts/Wurms. Those are the iconic creatures they get since I've played Demons shocked me bc Zombies are the most commonly printed black creature and Sphinxes aren't very common back in the day Wizards were, other colours sounded right
I've only just found your channel and you are immediately my favorite Magic Loremaster. I've been playing Magic ever since I got the 7th Edition Starter Pack when it came out. Not to be a troll, though I'm sure you can appreciate the irony due to a main point of this video, Shivan Devastator is one of my favorite creatures😬.............🤷
🤘😎🤙
Good Hydras, fun videos
(WHO IS OB NIXILIS) 🖤
Who is VOLRATH!
I dislike how the iconic creatures are varying on presence :/
168 Angels (156 white)
54 Sphinxes (51 blue)
109 Demons (106 black)
195 Dragons (132 red)
45 Hydras (39 green)
My favorites are Gargos, Gyrus, voracious hydra, hero’s bane, bioessence hydra, hydra broodmaster, savageborn hydra, and Ulasht. These are all my favorites mostly because I own them or I know somebody who does. By the way: you said the theros hydras were bad, but both of the ones listed here (hero’s bane and hydra broodmaster) are REALLY op in mana ramp decks, because I know with hero’s bane you can make it, like, a 1 million / 1 million creature in like 10 turns.
My favorite wavers between Gargos and Ulasht. They both have cool, unique designs (though every time I look at Ulasht I'm disappointed again to realize he's not a Hellion Hydra). Right now Gargos is in the lead after I drafted a B/G reanimator deck at prerelease and watched him run people over. One guy lost most of his board dealing with Gargos and then scooped when I cast Blood for Bones. That Hydra takes no prisoners.
I love the concept of hydras, I just wish the gameplay reflected how resilient they're supposed to be outside of a few examples. Instead, I feel like their greatest weakness is that most of them are _too_ easy to kill for the amount of resources you have to put into them. It feels really bad and anti-flavor to pump 10 mana into a big hydra just for a 2 CMC kill spell to come down and kill this thing that's supposed to bounce back even stronger from damage. It's just criminal that all hydras don't have Regenerate as a standard activated ability. You could also have some hydras being able to block multiple creatures at once. I enjoy +1/+1 counter strategies, and they did try a lot of different designs, but it seems like they didn't really bother with the ones that are the most obvious and, imo, flavorful.
this is great fun for me I played a duel a few weeks back using voracious hydra , I used a huge mana pool of blue and green. 18 mana to be exact and between counter spells and such cast him with double counters and forced my opponent to watch in horror as on my last turn I attacked with a 36/36 creature with trample. my opponent refused to concede with a life total of 30 he sat in disbelief blocking with 3/3s, 4/4s and such forgetting about the trample carry over that left him at 5 life. I asked him again if he wanted to concede but was told no, very rudely . so he cast a blue air elemental as I was at 12 life . He said my creature was over rated so on my next turn I hit him with a rabid bite and a counterspell as he tried to unsummon my hydra. with no creature nothing in hand he tried to say I was in overkill mode, which at this point HECK YES I was. so he tried to concede and you could of heard a pin drop...The whole room had been watching I found out and told him to take it on the chin as I had offered him a way out and his pride would not let be beaten by a nobody in his eyes. I am a average player at best so felt pretty good about beating the local favorite, I found out later he had not lost single match in two months of Friday Night Magic. I have been playing since the Urza saga block with a 15 year hyatis. as I moved to NC from upstate NY. I am still learning the planeswalkers and such but arena is a great tool to hone your skills. TY MTG for everything. Mr .Gomez love your videos keepem coming.
My first MTG EDH deck was Hydra tribal headed by Zaxsara so cards like Gargos Voracious Hooded Vastwood Whiptongue and Stonecoil Serpent Ironscale Hungering Genesis were in there also Oko Thief of Crowns because why not.
Hydra Broodmaster: I was able to get her 12/12 in a tournament with it's Monstrosity ability giving me 6 6/6 hydras. Though that costed (5)(5)(G) with the Monstrosity ability cost.
13:12
I heard that killing the hydra "didn't count" because someone else helped Heracles with the task (I think the person passed him torches or something). You said in the earliest versions of the myth it didn't have the iconic head regrowing thing though.
That said, even though it "didn't count" Heracles still got something out of it. The hydra's blood was very poisonous, and after Heracles killed the hydra, he dipped some arrows into its blood. Spoiler Alert(:P) : Admittedly one of these arrows would end up poisoning him.
M19 Hungering Hydra was traumatizing for me. I was playing a GP sealed for M19 and I was doing ok. until my opponent slammed one down. I did not read the rules text for this card and absolutely made a huge mistake and paid for it. I completely underestimated it and I thought it was just a regular hydra and I couldn't find a way to contain it with my red/green no solid removal spells. That card was an absolute bomb on limited.
so that particular hydra made an impression on me.
9:50 oh god, that's bringing back memories of the M12 game where a challenge was fighting against a deck that played one of those EVERY TURN. I Pacified one of the first ones and it got to about 128/128 before I died to the others
My commander deck "elves to hydras" Basically I throw a bunch of lands and mana dorks on the field to summon giant hydras. It's always a fun time when I count 20 mana for a huge creature, the people I'm playing against get real scarred about what's coming out. :3
So, believe it or not, I was at 4 life vs a white/blue deck with 11 life and around 6 flying creatures, with Gargos, Dreadhoard Archanist, and two seasonal growths on the field, and a land and a growth in hand. They let me live one more turn to taunt me. Two growths, a Rabid Bite, and a self inflicted Shock later, Gargos won me the game dealing 11 damage to my opponent.
We need cards like the first hydra in the new throne of eldraine set
Really adds the flavour to the fantasy storytelling set
Primordial Hydra has and will always be my favorite hydra. There's just something special about watching you little lizard grow into a 100+/100+ dream stomper.
I’ve always thought dinosaurs were more greens whole deal than hydras, but then I looked back and noticed how many of those were focused in ixalan and ikoria. Guess it just shows the impact those sets had on me. (Ancient brontodon best 10/10)
Also, hydras are not and have never been Green's iconic Big Creature. If anything, Green is notable for not having one. Dragons, demons, angels, amd even sphinxes are iconic, sure. I'd argue Blue also has Leviathans and Serpents. Green has even more. Wurms, elementals, treefolk, giants, beasts, even spirits show up more often in Green as iconic big creatures than hydras do.
I miss Wurms as Green's iconic creatures to be honest. (Partially because I can still remember when that was a thing, but also because I'm a huge Dune fan.) I'd prefer to see Hydras become more of a five-color thing.
My favorite hydra is Oran-Rief hydra, he was my first hydra when I got back into mtg last year (I played when I was 12 but had to stop playing when I moved and there was no one to play with and over the years my cards would just disappear😭) oran-rief hydra was the card that pointed me towards hydra cards as a whole, fell in love with'em and am trying to build a hydra deck still
2:38 that 'counters(heads)' like... really, wordings were THAT bad in the OG set :D?
Just gotta say, if you're using greek mythology you should use hercules. Hera is the greek god, Juno would be the Roman. So gotta pick either Heracles and Juno or Hera and Hercules otherwise it doesn't make sense. :)
One of my more favorite decks this rotation is simic hydras.
Slap down a simic ascendancy, verocious hydra(double it's counters), and that hydra growth enchantment and just watch your opponent panic as they realise you win in two more turns.
Find myself playing genesis hydra the most. Grabs any permanent in a color that can ramp like no other. When I have an enchantment heavy deck with Green it's an easy include, especially if +1/+1 counters also matter.
HEY, DID YOU KNOW THAT VOREL, OF THE HULL CLADE IS STILL THE BEST HYDRA CAMMANDER?!
Why is that?
(Ryan) Because he doubles the number of counters on things, and most of the green hydras start with some number of counters on them. :-)