Is Ulvenwald Hydra good in Commander?

Ulvenwald Hydra in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Ulvenwald Hydra enters as a reach-carrying body sized to your land count and immediately fetches any land from your library to the battlefield — that's a ramp spell stapled to a late-game threat. The seven-mana price tag is real, but in any green deck with enough land payoffs, it pulls its weight twice over.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Gargos, Vicious Watcher

69.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Gargos, Vicious Watcher reduces Ulvenwald Hydra's cost by four whenever a spell targets one of your Hydras, making it a two- or three-mana land-fetch creature in practice — that's the engine in one line.

02

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

55.5% of decks · synergy 0.52

Omo, Queen of Vesuva cares about land subtypes, and Ulvenwald Hydra's enter-the-battlefield fetch lets you grab whichever specialized land Omo needs to spread counters and activate her land-type shenanigans on curve.

03

Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood

47.1% of decks · synergy 0.46

Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood draws a card when you cast a spell with mana value six or greater, so Ulvenwald Hydra replaces itself immediately while also fetching a land — Alena's mana output then makes the Hydra cost feel negligible.

04

Nine-Fingers Keene

36.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Nine-Fingers Keene wants as many land types in play as possible, and Ulvenwald Hydra's tutor effect finds any land unconditionally, making it the most efficient single-card way to grab whichever type the deck is still missing.

05

Polukranos Reborn

26.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Polukranos Reborn incentivizes stacking large Hydras for combat, and Ulvenwald Hydra's power scaling with lands gives Polukranos a reliably oversized creature to work with while the landfall trigger accelerates the board further.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Ulvenwald Hydra lives — the singleton format's long games and fat land counts let both halves of the card shine, and fetching any land to the battlefield is more powerful than it looks when you're grabbing Cabal Coffers, Field of the Dead, or Cradle. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but effectively irrelevant; seven mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is unplayable in those formats when every other threat at that cost ends games immediately. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer pacing, so Ulvenwald Hydra is playable there for the same reasons, just in a tighter card pool.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Ulvenwald Hydra isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. Historically it's sat in the $1–3 range — strong enough to run, cheap enough that it's rarely a meaningful budget consideration.