Distract the Hydra
Face the Hydra 7 • common
- Set
- Face the Hydra
- Collector number
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Alex Horley-Orlandelli
- Market price
- $0.40
What it does
Each player may sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way chooses a Head and taps it. Each player who didn't sacrifice a creature loses 3 life.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Distract the Hydra is a card from the Face the Hydra Challenge Deck, released by Wizards of the Coast in 2014 as part of the Theros block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was designed to be played as a solo or cooperative experience, allowing players to test their decks against a non-sentient, automated adversary that represented one of the iconic monsters from the set's Greek mythology-inspired plane.
The art for this card was created by Aleksi Briclot, a prolific illustrator known for his atmospheric and high-fantasy aesthetic. The design intent behind the Face the Hydra deck was to simulate the mechanics of a boss battle through a series of scripted card behaviors. Distract the Hydra, specifically, serves a tactical function within this ruleset, forcing the player to interact with the deck's specific head-management mechanics rather than simply attacking the Hydra directly.
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