Sprouting Phytohydra
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
DissensionDIS · #95
- Card type
- Creature — Plant Hydra
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.14 € · ★ 3.70 € · 3.77 $ · ★ 4.62 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Heather Hudson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2006-05-05
Flavour text
A hydra tender's problem isn't having enough defenses but enough pots.
Rulings
A token copy of Sprouting Phytohydra is created even if the damage dealt to Sprouting Phytohydra destroys it.
If Cytoshape turns a creature into a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra, and that creature is dealt damage, the token that is put onto the battlefield is simply a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra. At the end of the turn, the Cytoshaped creature will revert back to what it was, but the token copying it will not.
If a token copy of Sprouting Phytohydra is dealt damage, it will create another token copy.