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Madame Hydra, Reanimated

Legendary Creature — Human Horror Villain · {3}{B} · Black commander

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Madame Hydra gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. Whenever Madame Hydra enters or attacks, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

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What Madame Hydra, Reanimated actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Madame Hydra enters or attacks, mill two cards.
• Keyword · menacemenace
• AbilityMadame Hydra gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

What a Madame Hydra, Reanimated deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• creature card (its size grows with them)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Madame Hydra, Reanimated deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Madame Hydra, Reanimated

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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