---
name: "Whiptongue Hydra"
mana_cost: "{5}{G}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Creature — Lizard Hydra"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["Reach"]
set: "NEC"
set_name: "Neon Dynasty Commander"
collector_number: "134"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Tomasz Jedruszek"
oracle_id: "53d5d961-d6a3-49b1-b335-2c2b49972008"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/whiptongue-hydra-nec"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Whiptongue Hydra
- **Mana Cost:** `{5}{G}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Creature — Lizard Hydra
- **Keywords:** Reach

## Oracle Text
Reach
When this creature enters, destroy all creatures with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature destroyed this way.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Spitting Spider](/printing/spitting-spider-8ed.md) — Creature — Spider
2. [Wren's Run Hydra](/printing/wrens-run-hydra-mh2.md) — Creature — Hydra
3. [Stingerfling Spider](/printing/stingerfling-spider-cmr.md) — Creature — Spider
4. [Feiyi Snake](/printing/feiyi-snake-gs1.md) — Creature — Snake
5. [Whirlwind](/printing/whirlwind-cma.md) — Sorcery
6. [Shivan Devastator](/printing/shivan-devastator-dmu.md) — Creature — Dragon Hydra

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC) #134
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Tomasz Jedruszek

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2018-07-13)* If a creature with flying would be destroyed, but an Aura with the umbra armor ability is destroyed instead, Whiptongue Hydra won't count that creature or that Aura as a "creature destroyed this way."
- *(2018-07-13)* A creature with indestructible or a creature that regenerates won't count as having been "destroyed this way."