Hydroform
Gatecrash 172 • common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Collector number
- 172
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- green mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Green · Blue
- Artist
- Howard Lyon
- Market price
- $0.08
What it does
Target land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
"While the sea may be our home, the sky is our destiny."— Prime Speaker Zegana
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Hydroform was released in 2013 as part of the Gatecrash expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Within the game's lore, the card represents the Simic Combine, one of the ten guilds of Ravnica, which focuses on bioengineering and the fusion of nature with technology. Mechanically, it functions as an enchantment that grants a land creature-like properties with flying, reflecting the Simic philosophy of rapid biological adaptation.
The artwork was created by illustrator Svetlin Velinov, a prolific artist for the series. His design emphasizes the surreal, fluid aesthetic characteristic of the Simic guild, utilizing translucent textures and aquatic motifs to illustrate the physical transformation of the landscape. It was received by players as a niche utility card, valued primarily for its specific interaction with the land-animation mechanics prevalent in that block.
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