Lair of the Hydra

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Near Mint

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Item Condition

Choose from 2 versions of this card in the list — each is listed by its finish and style. Our grade: Near Mint, for every version. Pictured: these printings of the card. Every card ships triple-sleeved — a soft sleeve, a deck sleeve and a rigid top loader.

Item Description

Lair of the Hydra is a land that waits patiently, then becomes whatever size the moment demands. It enters untapped in your opening turns (it only enters tapped if you already control two or more other lands) and taps for green, so it slots into a deck at almost no cost. Later, pay X plus one green mana and it becomes an X/X green Hydra creature until end of turn while still being a land.

That scaling is the whole appeal. Early it can be a 2/2 or 3/3 to pressure a planeswalker; late in the game, with a pile of mana, it turns into a huge attacker that dodges sorcery-speed removal and board wipes by spending most of its life as a land. Mono-green and ramp decks love it, and in Commander it gives mana-heavy decks a way to turn leftover mana into a serious threat without spending a card slot on a creature.

It belongs to the cycle of rare creature lands from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, the 2021 Dungeons & Dragons set. This listing offers two versions: the standard printing in foil, collector number 259, illustrated by Johannes Voss, and the showcase printing in non-foil, collector number 356, with art by longtime Dungeons & Dragons illustrator Wayne Reynolds.

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