Heartless Hydra - Needs Help

by 1ronL10n on 04 March 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Instants (9)

Artifacts (2)


Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

Very new to the game and to deck building. I would appreciate some feedback. The general idea is to capitalize on heartless summoning for a variety of things like getting tree of redemption down quickly to combo with feed the pack, or get an extra two +1/+1 on primordial Hydra to accelerate growth. Quite a bit of life gain included, hopefully buys me extra turns in against relatively fast decks, and perhaps even makes Chalice of Death a possibility. I figure I can go for the kill with Feed the Pack + Tree of Redemption, or combo Deadly Allure and Primordial Hydra to ensure the greatest amount of damage tramples into my opponent. Falkenrath Noble should hopefully earn me some extra damage, and combined with Blunt the Assault, the morbid on Hollowhenge Scavenger, and Chalice of LIfe, i might be able to get into the eleusive +10 above starting and start dealing straight 5 with Chalice of Death.

I tried to use my sideboard to compensate a little for lack of flying defense, and a couple things have been included to help level the playing field if my opponent is running a deck that relies on swords. Asceticism is really only there in the event that my opponent makes a habit out of removing or killing my Hydras before I would like.

My primary concern is consistency, I really want it to do the same thing every time, but I'm not sure how to tweak it to make that happen. Please help!

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Heartless Hydra - Needs Help

Run predator ooze. It is great against fast decks and gets big fast. Plus he's indestructable.

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 06:12

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Heartless summoning will kill him though yah? It puts -1/-1 on all my creatures. I thought about him though.

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 06:19

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not sure if heartless will work with primordial? but you could try also heartless works only on creatures oh and might i add heartless works really well with solemn simulacrum

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 06:30

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Heartless definitely works with primordial, I asked a judge. You set x and then reduce by 2 and pay.

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 06:50

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i think your trying to incorporate to many different types of win conditions mainboard, especially with the chalice and such, i think you should just stick to 1 or two - i dont like the combo of feed the pack / heartless as well, it just makes your wolves a bunch of whimpy 1/1s

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 09:39

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Fair enough. I was concerned about 1/1 wolves as well, my friend runs a different version with essence of the wild that makes all the wolves 5/5, but it's just really clunky. 1/1 isn't optimal, but with falkenrath, they are 1 damage and +1 life, even if they get blocked on their first attempt at attacking. And 10-12 wolves, even 1/1 makes a 20-24 point life spread pretty quick. Not to mention that if I swing with wolves and let my hydra just sit, chances are he just went from 15/15 to 31/31..and he has trample. I don't think I need beefy wolves to win, but I can understand that beefy wolves dont hurt anything. Maybe I will sideboard hollowhenge scavenger and swap for essence of the wild. Would that be better?

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Posted 05 March 2012 at 16:34

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