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The Top X-Spell Creatures for Commander and Multiplayer!

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Top X-Cost Creatures for Commander and Multiplayer!

Hello happy folks! I hope your day is going super mega well! Ever since Red saw Rock Hydra in Alpha, we've had X spell creatures for various formats! Today I wanted to look at my top picks for Commander and multiplayer! This is a sequel to two previous articles where I did my Top X Burn Spells and Top X Card Draw Spells, so check them out too!

I love tossing these into Green ramp brews to give you a fun mana sink!!!

Honorable Mentions

Stonecoil Serpent
Shivan Devastator
Lifeblood Hydra

Stonecoil Serpent - This X spell artifact dork costs nothing to start, and then gives you reach, trample evasion, and protection from multicolored to save it or prevent it from blocking. It's always on curve since there is nothing to start as long as you hit your land drops from 1/1 turn one to 5/5 on turn five. Love it loads, I am sure you do too!

Shivan Devastator - This Red mythic costs one to start and then is your grows with every mana spent! Then you can have evasion in flying and haste to attack... now! It hits so quickly! And stays around too!

Lifeblood Hydra - This triple Green to start has evasion in trample. It also rocks a death trigger to draw cards equal to its power (and gain that life too, don't sleep on that). It's strong and even more so when answered to refill you hand! People might send over exile removal like Swords to Plowshares to remove that death trigger, so keep a sac outlet open like High Market or... Greater Good. Dropping that first will let you draw so many cards!

Primordial Hydra
Genesis Hydra

Primordial Hydra - Ever since it was printed In a Core Set it's beloved. This double Green to start will double it's size each of your upkeeps! And when it has a ten size? It get's trample, just cast, protect and win with this card all by itself!

Genesis Hydra - Our final before the Top 5 proper is this two Green to start and then cast trigger to drop for free a nonland permanent from its cost from the top of your library. So, for example, if you put 3 into the X, you'd get a 3/3 dork and then dig three and drop a nonland three or fewer permanent like Sakura-Tribe Elder or Rhystic Study from what you dug. Make sense? Note that's a cast trigger, so you cannot stop it by countering this spell.

5. Voracious Hydra

Voracious Hydra

Another double Green to start, this also has trample and you can fight a dork on arrival as removal or double its size once! Since you are often tapping out and mana sinking here with everything, that free fight too should usually kill something nasty good! Pretty good flexibility in an X Spell dork amiright?

#4. The Goose Mother

The Goose Mother

Our only scoring legendary lady is next! She's two Simic mana to start and then rocks evasion in that flying! She makes half X Food on arrival, and then when you swing with her? She can eat a Food to draw that card! A bit weird flavor-wise since she's eating her kids. But you get why she's here I'm sure!

#3. Steelbane Hydra AND Rampaging Yao Guai

Steelbane Hydra
Rampaging Yao Guai

This Naturalizing X Spell duo are next! The Hydra costs two Green to start and pulls off counters for that aforementioned Naturalize for three mana for each counter removed. The Bear needs triple Green to start, and then has trample and vigilance. Then this has an ETB Naturalize ability to destroy any number of them if their total mana value is what you spent it in your X or less. So, if you spend 5, you could destroy a Skullclamp, Sylvan Library and then an Esper Sentinel and have a mana value left, make sense? Both are great at ending stuff, love them much here!

#2. Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista

Hello xx mana fans! This colorless Construct is my penultimate pick! It ETBs with X counters equal to your amount spent, and you can add one for four mana. Then you can pull them off for no mana to shoot stuff for a damage to any target, like Triskelion. This is a beloved combo way to win the game with infinite mana so it has to be here on my list, right? It's colorless so any Commander deck can add it too, right? Right!

#1. Hydroid Krasis

Hydroid Krasis

This two to start Simic colored Hydra must be our top scoring one! It broke Standard when legal and now is amazing everywhere. Its got a cast trigger to draw half X rounded down. And gain that life too. Again, like with Genesis Hydra, cast triggers are not easy to traditionally stop by countering the spell that made them. You have to answer more! It's also got flying and trample too. Double evasion for the win!

There we go! Those are my top X Dorks for your consideration for that format called Commander and multiplayer! What are yours? Which of these is your favorite? Just let me know all day and night!

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