Editing Hydra (section)

==Magic: the Gathering==

Hydras have been in M:tG from the very beginning, with [http://www.smileylich.com/mtg/scans/QuarterSizeProxies/Rock%20Hydra.jpg Rock Hydra], a card that was discontinued for being both terrible and needlessly complicated. WotC attempted to replace it with Balduvian Hydra, which epically failed because the new card was just as complicated and very slightly more terrible (due to being vulnerable to toughness-reducing effects). Hydras made several more appearances throughout Magic's history, usually favoring Green over Red. A lot of them have an X in their mana cost, meaning they get bigger and better the more mana you dump when you cast them (from a flavor perspective it's like giving them more heads), and almost all of them get +1/+1 counters in one way or another, meaning they can get pretty big. While a lot of them aren't used competitively, there are plenty of notable Hydra cards, especially in recent years such as Hydroid Krasis, a weird mutant jellyfish-hydra abomination from the Simic Conclave, which gives you a load of card advantage and the legendary Progenitus, the ridiculously hard to cast [[WUBRG]] Hydra that confuses casuals since it has protection from '''EVERYTHING''' (it's the actual card's text).