Hydra

Welcome! Do you want to repost your new cards here, so we don't have to jump between forums? Are you planning to use any the other guy on the other forum thought up?

(For some reason I can't log in)
I'll post the new cards. The Goal is to make so the game stays at a consistent difficulty, instead of gradually getting easier.

Tainted Reward
Sorcery
Until the Hydra’s next turn, whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Blocked Path
Sorcery
Until the Hydra’s next turn, Hero cards lose all abilities.

Piercing Fangs
Sorcery
Until the Hydra’s next turn, each Head creature gets +X/+0, where X is it’s toughness.

Wild Thrashing
Sorcery
Wild thrashing deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of Heads on the battlefield.

Burn the Stumps
Sorcery
Until the Hydra's next turn, when a Head is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, reveal one card from the Hydra's library instead of two.

Regurgitate
Enchantment
If a sorcery card would be discarded from the Hydra's library, shuffle it into the Hydra's library instead.

Insatiable Glutton Head
Elite Creature - Head
At the beginning of the Hydra’s end step, each player sacrifices a permanent.
Hero’s Reward — When Insatiable Glutton Head leaves the battlefield, each player gains 2 life and draws a card.
0/6

an easy way to make the deck stronger later, though it is a bit clunky, is to put on, say blocked path, "if there are four or more heads in play, reveal another card when you play this" or maybe "if there are four or more heads in play when you reveal this card after the death of a head, play this card instead of discarding it.

Also, you could just say that if the library empties, shuffle the graveyard into the library. Or, to not change the rules, make a card whose entire ability is "when you put this card into a graveyard for any reason, shuffle it and your graveyard into the hydra library"

Please forgive the TERRIBLE templating there, just tossing out ideas. I can hone them if needed.

The only new head I've got up to now is elite, so we'll keep 2 Ravenous Brute Heads for now and add in another basic one (as wild thrashing can kill the hydra heads as well). There are very few heads as is anyway. Wild thrashing is similar to Unified Lunge but to creatures, so I'll swap 50%. I say we can swap Strike the Weak Spot for a different player benefit card, so I put in some Burn the Stumps. I'll pop in only one Regurgitate, seeing as we don't know how well an enchantment will play just yet.

Creatures
11 12 Hydra Head
4 2 Ravenous Brute Head
1 Savage Vigor Head
1 Snapping Fang Head
1 Shrieking Titan Head
1 Insatiable Glutton Head

Sorceries
5 Disorienting Glower
5 Distract the Hydra
4 Grown from the Stump
4 Hydra's Impenetrable Hide
3 Neck Tangle 2 Piercing Fangs
1 Regurgitate
4 Noxious Hydra Breath
2 Strike the Weak Spot 2 Burn the Stumps
5 Swallow the Hero Whole
4 Torn Between Heads
6 3 Unified Lunge
3 Wild Thrashing

How does it look?

Alright, changes approved. (I wish I could edit that post...)
Go ahead and use whichever deck you'd like, I'd like it if any deck could face the hydra. I will personally use a Theros Event deck (with some slight modifications)

Ok, I'm bringing my "good" standard homebrew. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/botg-ww-heroic/

I guess I'll use the {warrior} and {hunter} hero cards? Like I said, I didn't do this in store, so while I have some hero cards, I've never used them.

Shall we start? you want to go first? (I guess it doesn't matter since we are a team.

Team playing will be rather complex. I guess go up until before your attack phase so we can decide if we want to work together towards killing something.

I will assume we are going for normal difficulty, so 3 Heads will be on the field.
(here's the board for reference)

(also feel free to mulligan for 7 until you have a decent hand.)

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Turn 1

Play 1 Plains
Tap Plains to play 1 Favored Hoplite.

End Turn.

Hydra's Turn 1

Play Hydra Head
End Step: Deal 1 damage for each untapped head (4) to each player

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Nothing too crazy so far!

ok.

Draw. Plains. pass.

16/6

yeah, I can just exile and draw a new card. I guess they are blocking creatures if you attack them, so like this turn you attack with the hoplite and I play celestial flare when it is "blocking"? Up to you. If you like that we can do it this turn (though it may just make the beast angry

if not that then pass to hydra.

sacrifices a permanent? It thought it was creature.....strong

I sacrifice a plains.

Draw. Plains. Pass
12/6

I'm thinking that both those homebrew cards may be too strong. That is brutal, and a faster opening wouldn't have helped much.

I'll play {glimpse the sun god} on hydra's turn to tap down the glutton so we don't sacrifice next turn.

Turn 3

Draw
Play Plains
Pay UW for Imposing Sovereign
Tap The Harvester to Draw, then Discard
Discard Azorius Guildgate

Life: 20

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I'm thinking we had some bad luck landing on two elite heads. Also, I believe tapping them will only prevent the damage, not abilities.
I'm considering making it either discard a card or lose some life. Sac a creature is also a good alternative.
Any suggestions for Wild Thrashing? I still think it went pretty well since it cleared the hydra's field as well. I've had games where 7 heads were on the field and things were getting disgusting.

I think that seeing the board cleared and us gaining life (and maybe getting cards etc.) that the trashing is awesome...very random, so it should be a one of in the deck, but I like it.

and you are right, 20.

I guess you are right about the glimpse the sun god...the hydra is weird in how many cards it makes useless. This one isn't strictly useless though, so I'll leave it.

Hydra is up then.

the sacrifice card is the problem...it locks you out completely. If it says sacrifice a creature it might be ok...then it would have wiffed and we could have built our board state.

My hand is full of three drops, I havn't missed a land drop, and I'm still stuck on two mana. Plus, a hydra destroying lands isn't BAD flavor, but destroying creatures is better flavor.

Start again with that change?