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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Bristling Hydra

Equivalent cards to Bristling Hydra (Mono-Green, energy, self-protect):

  • Longtusk Cub – Gains energy and can get bigger, but lacks hexproof.
  • Voracious Hydra – Enters with counters and fights creatures, no energy interaction.
  • Steel-Leaf Champion – Big and hard to block, but lacks self-protection.
  • Renata, Called to the Hunt – Grows with creatures, but no built-in protection.


Reason: Mono-green creatures at 4 CMC with self-buff or the ability to protect or grow themselves are the closest equivalents, but none exactly match the specific energy+hexproof combo of Bristling Hydra.

Results:

Bristling Hydra #147s Creature — Hydra

Variations: v1 v2

Info

Color:
Identifies:
Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 4/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Hydra
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Rules

  • Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
  • If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
  • If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
  • Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
  • Some spells and abilities that give you {E} may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any {E}.
  • Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E}. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of {E} as the ability resolves.
  • Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E} describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
  • {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.73 USD
    Cardmarket 0.75 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.79 USD
    Manapool 0.35 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    When this creature enters, you get (three energy counters). Pay : Put a +1/+1counteron this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn.

    Longtusk Cub #167 Creature — Cat

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Cat
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:
    Tokens:
    Energy Reserve

    Rules

  • Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
  • If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
  • If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
  • Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
  • Some spells and abilities that give you {E} may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any {E}.
  • Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E}. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of {E} as the ability resolves.
  • Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E} describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
  • {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

    • Prices

    Seller Price

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you get (two energy counters). Pay : Put a +1/+1counteron this creature.

    Renata, Called to the Hunt #267 Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: */3
    Types:
  • Enchantment
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Demigod
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • A creature entering the battlefield at the same time as Renata won't get an additional +1/+1 counter.
  • Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
  • If a creature you control would normally enter the battlefield with no +1/+1 counters on it, Renata's second ability causes it to enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
  • If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
  • If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
  • Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • The ability that defines Renata's power works in all zones, not just the battlefield.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD / 0.21 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 0.26 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1counteron it.

    Voracious Hydra #1491 Creature — Hydra

    Variations: v1 v2

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 0/1
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Hydra
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Abilities/Keywords

    Fight Trample

    Rules

  • Because fighting isn't combat damage, trample has no effect during the fight.
  • If the target of Voracious Hydra's second mode isn't a legal target as the ability resolves, or if Voracious Hydra has left the battlefield, neither creature will deal or be dealt damage. The ability won't change to the first mode if the target is illegal.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 18.82 USD
    Cardmarket 15.13 EUR / 13.5 EUR
    Cardkingdom 21.99 USD
    Manapool 19.64 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. • This creature fights target creature you don't control.

    Bristling Hydra Creature — Hydra Normal - ~$0.91

    Longtusk Cub Creature — Cat Normal

    Renata, Called to the Hunt Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod Normal - ~$0.24

    Voracious Hydra Creature — Hydra Normal - ~$17.82

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