Vigean Hydropon
Creature — Plant Mutant
Graft 5 (This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
This creature can't attack or block.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #24288
Vigean Hydropon enters with five +1/+1 counters it can never spend — no tap ability, no attack, no block — making it a pure counter-battery for proliferate and graft engines. It's a 0/0 that does nothing alone, so you only run it when your deck turns that counter stockpile into immediate currency.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Vigean Hydropon actually earns a slot, specifically in decks built around Simic graft and proliferate synergies — Vorel of the Hull Clade, Zegana, or any shell that treats +1/+1 counters as a resource rather than a stat boost. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive common shell wants a creature that can't attack or block. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal by technicality, but five counters on a do-nothing body doesn't clear the bar in either format. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable in the right counter-focused shell, dead weight everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Vigean Hydropon is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It's unlikely to move; the demand ceiling is narrow enough that no reprint or spike is coming to change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.