The original Hydra...too expensive to maintain unlike other Hydras...
Lege
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
The wording on this is magnificent. "During your upkeep, new heads can be grown for RRR apiece." Really?
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Pay R to prevent 1 damage, good against wither and deathtouch.
persecutor
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
I call him heads man
XTwistedsoulX
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Blue cheese ttian. Blue cheese.
qaq456
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
awesome flavour
Nagoragama
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
lol I never noticed that on the original card it said RRR, without mana symbols.
Psuedonaut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Um. Braid of Fire + Paradox Haze.
Cool, with 4 paradox hazes, I get 5 upkeeps.
Assuming Braid got played the same turn all my Hazes got out, upkeep one, +1 Red, Upkeep 2, +2 red, Upkeep 3, +3 red, upkeep 4, +4 red, upkeep 5, +5 red. 15 red mana = 5 heads :O
Ohwait, I just Doubling Season.
Again, 4 paradox hazes, 4 doublings, and ONE braid of fire. upkeep one, +16 red, upkeep 2, +32 red, upkeep 3, +48 red, upkeep 4, + 66 red, upkeep 5, +82 red. Altogether that is 244 red. And since paying for that head is adding a counter, you add that many counters instead. 244 red mana = 1296 heads and one leftover red mana :O
That's really cool yknow? Also, cool, Fate Transfer to Molten Hydra, to kill enemy.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Old school card is old-school. I kinda wish they still did stuff like this, but given how much everyone BAWWWed over Obsidian Fireheart's reminder text, it may be best they don't.
zk3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The flavor the card is baked right in
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
So, Vorthos was responsible for the wording in the Alpha Design Team? Because he obviously had his hands on that one.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The cost of an Alpha Rock Hydra is as much- actually a little more right now, but I expect it to be equal again soon- as a Worldwake Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
This actually feels just to me. I don't know why, but I'd be happier spending $99 on this than on Jace.
Such is the Magic of actually fun, interesting cards, power/playability be damned to hell.
Edit: Beta version is about $25, and still black-bordered...since I'm cheap, I could go for Beta instead. :)
General_Kagemaro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stop random carding me this card Wizards!!!!!! It's neat and flavorful!! I get it!! That's all I have to say!!
... ok maybe just one more thing: Potato.
...Spoon! and that's it.
... well except for that last part.
... and that one.
... and that one...
SkyknightXi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Clockwork Swordfish: We can probably "thank" the people who said they'd play the game even if it was all numbers with no context of any sort for THAT sort of grumbling. (I can imagine Spike and Johnny overreaches well enough, but a Melvin overreach is a new one...) What do they expect to do, play every card on first sight like they were a blind-to-all-else bot? How do you get into a game like this if your inner Vorthos ISN'T attuned to high fantasy and/or magepunk?
Still...maybe we can pull a Planar Chaos-style shift on this and make a green version? Lichen Hydra or thereabouts? (Well, lichen DOES grow on rocks...)
O0oze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
probably the second best red hydra. after progenitus. or not. i dont know if there are any other red hydras in magic. now that i think of that, thats a stupid comment. dont read this.
TimCrockett
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lardok headed up the mountain to do battle with the fearsome Singing Hydra, which was currently belting out some classic showtunes. He ignored Head #1 (alto) and Head #2 (baritone). In fact - he was here to take down one head only - the horrendously off-key Head #5. "I've been listening to you ruin this perfectly good hydra choir for weeks," Lardok growled as he swung his sword. "There's a reason they call it a barbershop quartet."
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How do I spend "RRR"? Do I just growl or something?
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Cool, with 4 paradox hazes, I get 5 upkeeps.
Assuming Braid got played the same turn all my Hazes got out, upkeep one, +1 Red, Upkeep 2, +2 red, Upkeep 3, +3 red, upkeep 4, +4 red, upkeep 5, +5 red. 15 red mana = 5 heads :O
Ohwait, I just Doubling Season.
Again, 4 paradox hazes, 4 doublings, and ONE braid of fire. upkeep one, +16 red, upkeep 2, +32 red, upkeep 3, +48 red, upkeep 4, + 66 red, upkeep 5, +82 red. Altogether that is 244 red. And since paying for that head is adding a counter, you add that many counters instead. 244 red mana = 1296 heads and one leftover red mana :O
That's really cool yknow? Also, cool, Fate Transfer to Molten Hydra, to kill enemy.
Because he obviously had his hands on that one.
This actually feels just to me. I don't know why, but I'd be happier spending $99 on this than on Jace.
Such is the Magic of actually fun, interesting cards, power/playability be damned to hell.
Edit: Beta version is about $25, and still black-bordered...since I'm cheap, I could go for Beta instead. :)
... ok maybe just one more thing: Potato.
...Spoon! and that's it.
... well except for that last part.
... and that one.
... and that one...
Still...maybe we can pull a Planar Chaos-style shift on this and make a green version? Lichen Hydra or thereabouts? (Well, lichen DOES grow on rocks...)