---
name: "Honored Hydra"
mana_cost: "{5}{G}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Creature — Snake Hydra"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["Trample", "Embalm"]
set: "AKH"
set_name: "Amonkhet"
collector_number: "172"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Todd Lockwood"
oracle_id: "db63d999-97a6-4a62-83bd-e0677e6f8956"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/honored-hydra-akh"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Honored Hydra
- **Mana Cost:** `{5}{G}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Creature — Snake Hydra
- **Power/Toughness:** 6/6
- **Keywords:** Trample, Embalm

## Oracle Text
Trample
Embalm {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Snake Hydra with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

> *Even gods have pets.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Tah-Crop Skirmisher](/printing/tah-crop-skirmisher-pio.md) — Creature — Snake Warrior
2. [Lifeblood Hydra](/printing/lifeblood-hydra-cmm.md) — Creature — Hydra
3. [Scourge of Skola Vale](/printing/scourge-of-skola-vale-bng.md) — Creature — Hydra
4. [Managorger Hydra](/printing/managorger-hydra-sld.md) — Creature — Hydra
5. [Penumbra Wurm](/printing/penumbra-wurm-vma.md) — Creature — Wurm
6. [Khalni Hydra](/printing/khalni-hydra-plst.md) — Creature — Hydra

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Amonkhet (AKH) #172
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Todd Lockwood
- **Total Printings:** 13 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`